Israel’s war on hospitals
Health facilities are on the front line of the pitiless siege of Gaza
The long taproot of Hamas violence
Horrifying as they were, the events of 7 October were the latest twist in a violent cycle triggered in the distant past
The vanished Eden of SA’s first people
François le Vaillant painted a uniquely vivid picture of Khoikhoi tribes on the brink of settler-colonial genocide
Ramaphosa’s silence on Brics serial human rights violators is shameful
It is a dishonest evasion to excuse the horrors of the Iranian regime on the grounds that some of its Western accusers have a tainted human rights record
Scarcity and the threat of another ‘final solution’
Russia’s botched war of neo-colonial conquest in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s mendacious justifications for it, bear the closest resemblance in our age to Hitler’s campaign for Lebensraum
Why Steve Biko still matters
The founder of Black Consciousness kept evolving; by the time of his terrible death he was moving away from hard-line racial isolationism. DREW FORREST traces his development in a seminal collection of writings
Bob Marley: The Prophet’s feel-good theology
Christianity tells us to worry about hellfire; Bob Marley tells us ‘Don’t worry about a thing’. Drew Forrest looks at the Jamaican singer’s timeless appeal
Joburg: There’s still life in the old skelm
There are reasons not to emigrate or join the Little Trek back to the Cape Colony
Public artists strive to redeem Joburg’s blighted inner city
A public art team aims to roll back the squalor and spiritual deformity of downtown Johannesburg. Its latest project looks for meaning in a senseless murder
An evolutionary theory of male violence may explain the persistence of gender violence
Some scholars have argued that gender-based violence has an evolutionary root, a controversial view of a universal problem
