IN A PIECE entitled The Queen of the Night falls silent — legendary soprano Mimi Coertse dies, writer Herman Lategan introduces a chain of hagiographic fantasy that reduces Coertse's unashamed collaboration and open association with the apartheid...
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South Africa’s Bold New AI Policy: Game-Changer or a Taxpayer-Funded Time Bomb?
THE Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has published a sweeping draft 'National Artificial Intelligence Policy' that aims to put South Africa at the forefront of the global AI revolution. But nothing could be further from the truth. Buried in the fine print is a proposal that s...
Repealed legislation from 1950 now used to classify employees by race
Sakeliga and NEASA release a statement this week confirming that "South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labour is instructing employers to apply the long-repealed 1950 Population Registration Act to racially classify their employees." The unlawful instruction, apparently delivered by the De...
Opposition to race-labeling comes full circle
FOR DECADES those leading the challenge against race labeling, the idea that all individuals occupy distinct race categories defined in law, and backed by pseudo-scientific theories, for example the discredited multi-regionalist theory of human evolution, were predominantly by people of color. T...
“It’s all about a black magician”. The Heart 104.9 incident (part 2)
MORNING Yoga in a prison cell catapults me out of E-Section, the door literally unlocks itself as I am led away by a burly Afrikaner warden, only too pleased to see me. I am once again processed for the transport to Caledon Square, the holding cells at the Magistrates Courts, in which one is luck...
South Africa’s trade pivot bungle
IMAGINE an alternative future if you will. A future in which our country instead of wedding itself to BRICS maintained its focus on leading the African continent — the BRICS bloc is really nothing more than a proxy for China's controversial 'belt and road' initiative. Formed on 9 July 2002, the A...