An interesting email did the rounds last week. It was an open letter/apology from a former South African Breweries (SAB) employee to Proteas batting star…
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Azad Essa is a journalist at Al Jazeera.
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Accidental Academic won best political blog at the South African Blog awards 2009 and is a finalist for 2010.
I meet Huwaida Arraf at the Palestinian Struggle and Human Spirit Film Festival held in the working class district of Athlone in Cape Town. It’s…
I have had it with Indian businesses. Sure, half of them are my cousins and all that, but even shared bloodlines and Sunday Akhni doesn’t…
After telling me where he was from, he grunts and looks the other way, nostrils flared as he pretends to admire the scenery. Of course,…
It is a glorious summer morning in Istanbul; colours of the sky resemble a messy oil painting; both resplendent and melancholic in one go. After…
If you haven’t blogged, made a poster, built a sand castle or ran naked through the streets screaming “the climate changers are coming”, then you’re…
I am not a fan of famous professors. They are normally so caught up in their research that they’re often socially starved animals; aloof and…
The Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo is a sort of religious site. Sitting adjacent to the harbour in central Oslo, a spot that could easily…
I I jump off a packed train in Munich and walk from the platform towards the station when a plain clothes policeman stops me. He…
Sometime in 2008, a Muslim woman clad in a hijaab (head scarf) was verbally abused in the East German city of Dresden by a German-Russian…