November 2023

The tangled thread that joins Steve Tshwete to Siya Kolisi and World Cup victory

The tangled thread that joins Steve Tshwete to Siya Kolisi and World Cup victory

Photo Credit: Thomas Serer on Unsplash. As we celebrate our truly fabulous World Cup victory, it is worth remembering the context in which it was made possible. It’s worth remembering the journey of Steve Tshwete and so many others like him. As we celebrate our truly fabulous World Cup victory, it is worth remembering the

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Enola Gay birthed the first of 13 000 nuclear bombs and a legacy too ghastly to contemplate

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay I recently watched the fascinating movie Oppenheimer about Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb” and his direction of the Manhattan Project. It reminded me that I wrote this opinion piece for The Daily Maverick on 2 August 2022 about the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on

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