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Earlier this month, the New England Patriots were trounced in a lacklustre football performance at the American Super Bowl, losing convincingly to the Seattle Seahawks. The most exciting moment of the game was a performance by Puerto Rican singer...
This past Friday, 30 January, the South African government unceremoniously booted out the acting Israeli ambassador to Pretoria, Ariel Seidman and, in a tit-for-tat reprisal, Israel gave the South...
War ships assembled this past week at the Cape of Storms. A flotilla of “battleships” led by China converged on the Simon’s Town naval base for war games dubbed “Will for Peace”. The drills brought together a handful of ships...
There are some weeks that seem like years, and some years which seem like weeks. All in all, we are just ordinary people living through extraordinary...
The African National Congress (ANC) is in deep trouble, embroiled in multiple crises of its own making, and since its founding in 1912, has never been...
What would our community look like if we started with a blank piece of paper and designed it from scratch? How would South Africa develop if...
As the guard of honour awaited the arrival of President Cyril Ramaphosa, one of the flag bearers fainted on the White House lawns. He wouldn’t be...
It was towards the start of 2024, shortly after South Africa cursed Israel with the charge of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), when...
Gerald Leisner was one of the great towering figures of South African Jewry. He raised money to build almost every major Jewish institution in the country,...
This week, we’ve taken the unprecedented step of printing a blank front page of the newspaper. The reason is simple, without YOU, there is no SA...
It’s never good news when the non-executive chairperson of a newspaper asks the editor for space on the front page. I’m not going to sugar-coat it,...
Hamas is decimated, reduced to a disparate ragtag insurgency in Gaza; Hezbollah has been neutered; and the myth of Shiite power in Lebanon has been exposed....
More than 4 000 South Africans have had their Lithuanian citizenship restored to them, and with the benefits of citizenship comes the responsibility to elect strong,...
Not every critic of Israel is a raging antisemite, although let’s face it, many are. The anti-Israel coalition has been cobbled together as a broad partnership...
There I was imbibing the glitz and glamour of the opening of South Africa’s seventh Parliament, which couldn’t have been scripted by Monty Python with greater...
Not for sensitive readers The phone rang, the German accented woman said, “I’ve just landed. I’m having a massage, come collect me in an hour.” “But...
He was, of course, late again. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s much awaited Cabinet announcement didn’t start on time, but no-one was surprised. The announcement of the Cabinet...
Last week wasn’t a good week for the African National Congress (ANC). Not only was it decimated in South Africa’s general election, dropping 17% in the...
It’s election season this year around the world, with the people of more than 50 countries going to cast their ballots. Fresh from the Lithuanian presidential...
It’s unseasonably warm this winter in South Africa, and the trees and street poles are in full bloom, bursting in the vibrant red of the Economic...
It was a normal Shabbos dinner in Johannesburg. The challah bread from Fournos tasted of sugar, and the sesame seeds stuck between my teeth. Predictably, the...
I sit here staring at my suitcase, contemplating whether it’s time to leave the only home I’ve ever known. I imagine my ancestors, in the frigid...
Last month, the Lithuanian ambassador to South Africa, Dainius Junevičius, packed up his official residence, boarded a plane back to Vilnius, and retired from public life,...
It’s a balmy night in Tel Aviv. At 21:00, the temperature hovers above 30 degrees and the humidity clings to you like nylon. Hundreds of thousands...
Few dare to perform Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Resurrection. One would almost have to be insane to try. This magnum opus by the Austro...
Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz reminded us that diplomacy was merely war by other means. Last week, a diplomatic war broke out in Pretoria. In...
I’m told that the moment of birth is painful, bloody, and messy. So, too, was the birth of our democracy in South Africa. More than 300...
A few weeks ago, I was sitting at a lavish dinner celebrating a remarkable family who had donated yet another borehole, solar panels, and pumping system...
Johannesburg resonated to the sounds of classical music as some of the giants of the genre gathered at the Linder Auditorium to celebrate Opera’s Greatest Hits....
Last week’s presidential State of the Nation Address (SONA) was once again held in the Cape Town City Hall after Christmas Mafe Guy Fawkes-ed our democracy...
Israeli historian Yuval Harari may be one of the greatest thinkers of his generation. While cloistered away in month-long, silent Vipassana meditation retreats, Harari has conjured...
Before becoming famous for his role as Mr Bean, British comedian Rowan Atkinson commanded the stage as a stand-up comic. During one of his most notorious...
I loved my time in Russia. Floating down the Moskva River with the smell of cooking chocolate swirling from the Red October Chocolate Factory. Meandering through...
My fellow South Africans, I once wrote a speech for President Thabo Mbeki, but when he delivered the address, the only words I recognised were “good...
With the doors of international travel slammed shut on an exhausted nation, and South Africans desperate to escape the monotony of nearly two years of lockdown...
As the year meanders to a close and the Chanukah candles start to flicker out, I can hear Fleetwood Mac’s hit song, “Tell me lies, tell...
The last apartheid leader, FW de Klerk, died peacefully at his home, aged 85, in the luxury suburb of Fresnaye, Cape Town, on 11 November 2021....
I’m cursed with optimism. But as the smouldering cinders of last week burned themselves to charcoal and our president flanked by his podgy unkempt generals wailed...
Herby Rosenberg and I came from different sides of the political tracks. There was a threat, a gun, a raid on my offices as a young...
An associate professor of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Family Medicine used a university WhatsApp group with his interns to propagate the following anti-Israel view....
