It may look like the “Zero Tolerance” policy and the family separations on the Southern Border of the USA are in response to a surge of immigrants, but this is not so. As a matter of policy, the US government is now separating families who seek asylum in the US by crossing the border illegally. […]
Category: Politics
How can the United States Government Lose 1475 Children?
How can a government lose track of 1475 immigrant children in its care? I know it sounds like a Boko Haram horror story from Africa, but this is happening in the country that put a man on the moon, that invented the internet and has more databases than God has sheep. The United States of […]
Afriforum and the Attempted Prosecution of Julius Malema
By attempting to prosecute EFF Leader Julius Malema, Afriforum is taking a leaf out of the protectionist playbook of US President Donald Trump. TV commentators in the US call it “red meat” – The Urban dictionary defines RED Meat as “Highly politicized issues that the American political Right have very strong feelings towards.” And as […]
On Instagram People Pay Tribute to the Mother of our Nation #WinnieMandela
How does one pay tribute to the Mother of the Nation? How does one remember the woman that was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela? Deeply saddened I look through the images – from the young Xhosa woman, daughter of a Chief who became the first black Social Worker in South Africa, to the beautiful bride of Nelson Mandela. […]
Powerful Nerve Agent Novichok. What does it do?
Last night UK Prime Minister Theresa May said that Novichok is the nerve agent used in the attempted murder of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury on 4 March. Former Russian spy & his daughter poisoned in Salisbury by “military grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia” – UK […]