NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH: WE HAVE NORMALISED SUFFERING IN SOUTH AFRICA
September is our National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in South Africa. Yet, it seems all we do is telling people to “speak up” and “take care of themselves”, and that’s exactly where we have missed the point. Because people cannot literally breathe their way out of poverty. They cannot meditate their way out of unemployment. They cannot positive-think their way out […]
UKRAINE’S ZELENSKY PLAYING WITH FIRE IF HE ATTACKS RUSSIAN CIVIL AVIATION
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hit back at his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in what has become a key indicator in the growing schism between the two neighbouring nations in the grip of devastating war that has entered a fifth year. Putin was reacting in the aftermath of the recent threats by Zelensky that Ukraine […]
THE MENACE OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM AND THE MEMORY OF PRESIDENT SALVADOR ALLENDE
Western imperialism is, without doubt, the most destructive force unleashed on humanity over the past 500 years. Today, 4 September 2026, marks the 56th anniversary of Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens’ election as President of Chile in 1970. The 11th of this month will also mark the 53rd anniversary of the bloody, US-backed military coup that […]