A Hijacked Christmas To You!
A few months ago as our shopping aisles began to fill with festive cheer in the form of chocolate bears (wrapped in the ancient allure of gold), minces pies, marzipan and Christmas pudding, and the supermarkets freezers were packed with giant frozen turkeys, Kirk Cameron, 1980s television star of the sitcom Growing Pains, and […]
Palestine ‘Exists in Our Minds’
“I wish Israel would destroy all of us, not one of us left,” says Abu Eyad. “Our revolution failed − I don’t want to return to Palestine.” The young Abu Eyad is speaking from a Palestinian refugee camp called Ain al-Hilweh in Lebanon, where he lives in a state of limbo. Abu Eyad is a […]
The Uncelebrated Feast
President Jacob Zuma is set to be inaugurated on Saturday for his second term, with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan stating in March this year that R120-million had been set aside for the event. This is a substantial increase on the R75-million spent on Zuma’s inauguration in 2009. Then last week Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane […]