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Applying ‘Climate Justice’ To Climate Change Is A Misnomer

Applying ‘Climate Justice’ To Climate Change Is A Misnomer

‘Climate justice’ cannot be conflated with climate change. Yet that link is being propagated regarding the Concourt’s ruling against Shell’s Wild Coast fossil fuel exploration bid  (The Mercury, August 21). The main thrust of the Concourt’s Wild Coast ruling concerned the intense underwater noise generated by seismic surveys. Thus, its judgment was premised on the potential

Digital ID Warrants Critical Appraisal

Digital ID Warrants Critical Appraisal

Promotion of ideas and policies by sources regarded as reputable invariably expedites acceptance. Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber’s promotion of digital ID is a case in point that warrants critical appraisal. Understandably upbeat about modernizing a critical government service, Dr Schreiber ticks off the advantages of digital ID: curbing ID fraud and corruption, reducing

Significant Omissions in the ANC’s Quest for the Land

Significant Omissions in the ANC’s Quest for the Land

The almost 2,000-word harangue by Sechaba Nkoana of the ANC Veterans League (The Mercury, August 12) claiming that opposition to the 2025 Expropriation Act is premised on the preservation of historical land imbalances is significant for what it omits. Never has it been easier for blacks to own and develop land. They have the government on

Is the End of Independent Media Imminent?

Is the End of Independent Media Imminent?

Sekunjalo boss, Dr Iqbal Surve, who is also an ANC and WEF crony, bought Independent Media in 2013 when the Irish magnate O’Reilly sold it for some R2 billion. From the outset, Surve launched a piecemeal purge of mostly white journalists from the stable of legacy newspapers – The Star, Pretoria News, The Mercury, Daily

TRUMP’S IRAN STRATEGY UPENDS GLOBALISTS’ NARRATIVE

TRUMP’S IRAN STRATEGY UPENDS GLOBALISTS’ NARRATIVE

It is interesting how the same muted mass media stance that has greeted the alliance of the conservative Reform and Restore Britain parties in the UK prevails over Trump’s July 30 historic announcement concerning Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas. The reason is that the tired, Cold War-type narrative of the mainstream media and the

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