Surfing Behind the Wall

AS Europe reels from its debt disaster, and the Arab Spring turns into an exciting summer, Israel faces a crossroads. With its political hou...

THE Protection of Information Bill or “Secrecy Bill” – its surreal passage through parliament now extended for a further two months – is an ...

The poem below was an answer to a challenge by colleague Irfaan Abrahams. “Write a poem for the inaugural Cape Slave in Cape Town hosted by ...

THE other day on the Voice of the Cape radio station a maulana condemned a well-known Shaikh, a man regarded as a Grand Shaikh of the Naqshb...

TO foreigners we must sometimes appear to be a strange nation. Warm and hospitable one day, we are capable of unspeakable violence against e...

WHAT could our 2011 municipal elections have to do with the North African political earthquake, or, recent events in places such as Cote d’I...

THE other day I wrote an article about the halalisation of our consumer space by Halal bodies. They were more concerned, I suggested, in mak...