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Imagine Holocaust survivors reliving their own trauma by collecting statements from hundreds of other survivors. This is what a special unit of the Israeli police, composed...
Traffic in Sandton will be more snarled up than usual this week because there are a lot of big machers in town. The Sandton Convention Centre...
Most historians consider the Holocaust to have started with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 and to have ended after World War II in 1945....
Last week, Robert Bowers (50) received a death sentence for murdering 11 people with an automatic rifle in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United...
“For many years, I couldn’t understand why a struggle 6 000 miles (9 656km) away was far more important to my father than I seemed to be”,...
On the night of 27 June, French police shot dead a 17-year-old of Algerian heritage named Nahel M in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. Nahel, a...
“A week is a long time in politics” said British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. It’s a long time in war too. Just a few days ago,...
“The image that Palestinians portray in the English media is very different from the messages they send to their own people in Arabic,” Itamar Marcus said....
The leaders of seven African countries last weekend undertook an unlikely and gaffe-plagued peace mission to Ukraine and Russia, where the battle on the ground remains...
Orchards became the latest Johannesburg suburb to celebrate having several of its public roads enclosed on Tuesday, 13 June. And residents are hoping, as with other...
Twitter can be a nasty place. Often, the worst of humanity is on display as users mock, insult, and publicly attack one another online. But there...
Love him or loathe him, most people have a strong opinion about Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Back on the Knesset’s opposition benches in mid-2021...
On 28 Iyar, corresponding to 19 May this year, Israel and the diaspora will mark Yom Yerushalayim. This day commemorates the recapture of East Jerusalem from...
In recent months, the Cape Town Jewish community has been confronted by provocative anti-Israel protests, whereas Johannesburg, with a much larger Jewish community, hasn’t experienced the...
“The most transformative type of education is ‘teaching without teaching’,” said Professor Thuli Madonsela. “It’s what we learn from our teachers without them consciously setting out...
“Everyone is gloomy and unhappy about what’s going on in our country,” said analyst, author, and businessman Moeletsi Mbeki. “Almost 50% of the economically active are...
Since the declaration of the state of Israel in May 1948 – 75 years ago – 24 213 men and women have died defending the Jewish...
In a glimpse of the future, the main speaker at Johannesburg’s Yom Hashoah Holocaust commemoration on 18 April wasn’t there in person. Ella Blumenthal – still...
South Africa faces a political headache in August, when the country will host the summit of the BRICS – the club comprised of Brazil, Russia, India,...
Every year on Pesach, Jewish families around the world faithfully gather to tell the story of the Exodus, when Moses led the Israelite slaves out of...
“The best thing about Roodepoort in the West Rand where I grew up was the train station to Johannesburg,” joked journalist Gus Silber. His father was...
Has the robot Armageddon commenced? ChatGPT took only five days to gain its first million users after its launch on 30 November 2022, and just two...
The heated debate on Israel’s judicial reform played out at the South African Zionist Federation’s webinar, “Courting controversy: the debate on Israel’s judicial reforms” on 9...
Political analyst Dr Frans Cronje believes there’s a strong likelihood that the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its majority in the National Assembly in 2024,...
A blatantly biased and anti-Israel resolution was passed almost unnoticed at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, just days after the forced removal...
Julia Oduol hails from Nakuru, Kenya. She has been an asylum seeker in Cape Town since 2008. Her husband, a politician, was forced to flee from...
Exactly a year ago, on 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Well, it reinvaded. It had been conducting military operations in eastern Ukraine unabated since 2014....
In COVID-19 lockdown, while many were baking banana bread, sorting out their sock drawers, or playing Candy Crush, British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote a history...
Israel’s supporters have long claimed that it’s “the only democracy in the Middle East”. But a new study by the United Kingdom-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)...
Who would have thought it possible to detect cancer with just a drop of blood? Or to make sense of the sequencing of the genome of...
While Israel still officially has observer status at the African Union (AU), it’s unlikely to be allowed to attend the organisation’s annual summit in Addis Ababa,...
The Holocaust evokes nightmarish imagery: depraved medical experiments, asphyxiation in gas chambers, emaciated walking skeletons. One subject that has been consistently difficult to discuss, however, is...
In spite of repeated claims that it’s neutral on the war in Ukraine, South Africa continues cozying up to Russia. The visit of Russia’s Foreign Minister...
There are just 12 known Holocaust survivors still alive in Johannesburg, a handful in Cape Town, and none left in Durban. Almost all were children during...
Dr Blade Nzimande, South Africa’s minister of higher education, science, and technology, publicly endorsed a new anti-Israel book via his personal Facebook account on 8 January....
The year 2023 is fast approaching, and it’s time to consider what the new year will bring. Just a week ago, Cyril Ramaphosa looked a virtual...
As most South Africans head for their holidays, from 16 to 20 December 2022, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) will gather for its 55th national...
The African National Congress (ANC) is heading towards a political showdown at its national elective conference in a few weeks. It seems the image of this...
“To me, there’s no other choice” said Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg about saving the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary from 1944 to 1945. Wallenberg...
The government has finally agreed to scrap the much-hated electronic tolling of Gauteng’s freeways (e-tolls) by 31 December 2022. After more than a decade of legal...