Illiberal to oppose redress
The Citizen’s editor-at-large Martin Williams says that pompous high priests of liberalism are themselves betraying…
Today In Fact, 20 Novmber
On this day in 1979 some 500 militant Wahhabi Islamists stormed the holiest mosque of…
Winning SA’s race to CSI success
Comrades Marathon winner Claude Moshiywa and Nation Builder’s Keri-Leigh MacDonald on South Africa winning her…
Lion hunts and other things we don’t like
Sarah Britten on how otherwise rationale people behave and mobilise when they’re happily “outraged”… All of…
CSI comms gone very, very bad
The ad industry hit the headlines for the wrong reasons this week and, at times,…
Ideas for SA from Speedy Gonzales!
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen suggests we look to Mexico for clever ways out of the low-growth-high-unemployment South Africa…
Today In Fact, 19 November
Today is World Toilet Day. In 2012, over 2.5 billion people were living without access…
Today In Fact, 18 November
Born today in 1882, Jacques Maritain was raised as a Protestant, became an agnostic before…
Today In Fact, 17 November
Today in 1810, Sweden declared war on Britain. It is one of the few wars…
Today In Fact, 16 November
In the early hours of 16 November 1989, US-trained commandos of the Salvadoran armed forces…
Today In Fact, 15 November
Hugh Farringdon was no revolutionary. He was part of the elite in England in the…
Nation Builder Campaign
Lauren Cloete-Henning and Keri-Leigh MacDonald on the thinking behind their fast-growing Nation Builder campaign… http://youtu.be/7dfXVvWzCIw
Learning from America – and what we could teach
JP Landman, Nedbank Private Wealth’s political analyst, is on a four-month stint as a Public…
The end of “over-population”
The past two centuries have seen such exponential population growth across the world that the…
Today In Fact, 14 November
What does one do with the shadow part of our characters? Do we hide our…
Today In Fact, 13 November
When I was youngster living in Pretoria, the first mall built I this city was…
A Union on the Rise
Johan Kruger, communications head of Solidarity, on the unique way that trade union fights for its members, and…
Today In Fact, 12 November
Two strange and remarkable Hollywood people were born today. Grace Kelly was born in 1929,…
Today In Fact, 11 November
The horror of the First World War ended today in 1918. The terms of the…
Today In Fact, 10 November
Martin Luther was born today in 1483 in Saxony. – Posted by Douglas Racionzer (serendipiday.blogspot.com)
Today In Fact, 9 November
Schicksalstag, day of fate. The Germans have developed an unusual fondness for this day. On…
Charity Needs Organising
IN A world in which the gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots” remains a…
Unions in decline
As our trade unions flex their muscles in a year that has been a reminder…
Today In Fact, 8 November
John Duns Scotus died today in 1308. He is not to be confused with the…
Today In Fact, 7 November
The October revolution in Russia began on this day in 1917 when Bolsheviks stormed the…
This Lady’s for Turning
Anthea Jeffery says the DA is u-turning on race-based employment law. She thinks that while…
Cotlands’ new direction
Cotlands CEO Jackie Schoeman on that organisation’s new direction now that Aids is declining……
Today In Fact, 6 November
On this day in 1935, Edwin Howard Armstrong, a New Yorker published a paper showing…
Today In Fact, 5 November
Guy Fawkes Day. My parents allege that I was due to be born this day…
Today In Fact, 4 Novemeber
Are we all just different versions of the same? Gilles Deleuze, the pre-eminent philosopher of…
Today In Fact, 3 November
He ruled the Central African Republic for years, styling himself Emperor of the central African…
Today In Fact, 2 November
When I was in my last year at school I was a cheerleader. This meant…
Today In Fact, 1 November
Today in 1950, one of the more curious beliefs in Christendom was dogmatically declared by…
Today In Fact, 31 October
Halloween, Beltain and Samhain might be celebrated in parts of the world populated by Celts…
Today In Fact, 30 October
They had been in the bush fighting a war for years. The Front national for…