"Africans are not a problem to Africa, it is the Europeans," said former British prime minister Harold Macmillan on recognition of the winds of change sweeping across Africa in the 1960s. Macmillan was speaking from an informed colonial position. Eur...
"To be or not to be, that is the question" that confronted Hamlet in William Shakespeare's classic tragedy of the same name. Hamlet is confronted with two important considerations, which pose to him a predicament of sorts; whether to reprimand his mo...
Often anti-Zionist and Israeli apologists when arguing about the Israel/Palestine conflict, behave like toddlers on a playground needing parental supervision. There are those who vehemently defend the actions of Israel regardless of the atrocities it...
As Africa grapples with the strenuous task of finding lasting solutions to her problems under the mantra "African solutions to African problems", we should perhaps retreat a little and adorn microscopic lenses to focus on particular problems, underst...
In 1961, Kwame Nkrumah said: ”Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world. I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, ...
In 1975, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution which asserted that Zionism was racism. The resolution read: “The General Assembly … determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”
This resolution wa...
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 exposed particular weaknesses in the global financial system, regulatory regimes and some government’s inability to effectively respond to the economic misery imposed on the global populace by the worst crisis si...
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The origins of democracy can be traced back to ancient Greece and it was a Greek philosopher, Aristotle (384BC -- 322BC), who said that "the basis of a democratic state is liberty" After many years of persistent tyranny that engulfed Greece in the pe...
Last week, shocking revelations concerning the activities of ANC Youth League Spokesperson Nyiko Floyd Shivambu came to the fore. According to a letter published in various news outlets, a complaint was laid by 19 political journalists with the secre...
We are as humans, endowed with the abundance of prejudice; and which by nature widely distributed among all of us; though it may manifest in varying degrees depending on circumstances and individual experiences. None of us can with all conviction cla...
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