Some this week were attempting to perhaps distract attention from what is currently taking place in South Africa with reminders that in July 1984 Dunnes Stores workers in Henry Street, Dublin began a three year long strike in opposition to the stocking of food produce from South Africa. It was indeed a brave stance to […]
A scandalous event is set to shake South Africa in the near future: A former president of this country could soon be in prison. The country’s deputy chief justice, Justice Raymond Zondo, has called on the Constitutional Court to find former president Jacob Zuma in contempt of court and requested the “Apex Court” to sentence […]
Amidst all of the panic induced by the moves towards restricting travel to Ireland from overseas, several things appear to catch the attention. RTÉ’s Primetime made a big show of “calling out” people arriving back to Dublin on flights having either been on holidays as tourists, or as Spanish students and others who live here and […]
State hospitals in South Africa have sterilized some pregnant HIV-positive women without their consent, according to a report by the Commission for Gender Equality. One of the 48 documented complainants, Bongekile Msibi, told the BBC that she was only 17 when her uterus was removed after she gave birth to a daughter. It was only 11 years later […]
The attack on the 5-year-old by four nine-year-old boys took place at a school in Newcastle, South Africa.