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SLR: Why professional protesters should stick to their day jobs The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues with fresh acts of violence being committed since early May. Over the weekend, thousands of protesters gathered in major cities across the globe to show their support for Palestinians as Israel’s military launched airstrikes on Gaza. In his latest column, Simon Lincoln Reader reflects on a world gone mad, with protesters simply adding fuel to the fire. – Claire Badenhorst The unbearable stupidity of professional protesters By Simon Lincoln Reader* It wasn’t so much a Saturday and a ...

SLR: Corrupt cronies come crawling out of Greensill wreckage Simon Lincoln Reader has a roundup of the Corruption Chronicles this week. Although the central character in each chapter is different, they share many traits. The power-hungry bury themselves at the centre of large corporations, confident they will never be caught. When their fortresses collapse, hollowed out by greed they’re prone to finger-pointing and protest. In a familiar unfolding, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe who was once head of London’s Metropolitan Police as Commissioner was also found to be associated with Greensill Capita...

Simon Lincoln Reader discusses ‘wokeness’ and ‘cancel culture’ in the South African context. He describes how a growing number of people are choosing to submit to the ‘parasites’ of race theory and cancel culture to join a  misleading movement possessed by a set of ‘menacing, vacuous, dissembling and ahistorical delusions’. Helen Zille herself has been a victim of the ‘cancel culture’ that is so intertwined with ‘wokeness’, and she has written a book about its toxic effect on South Africa’s society. Reader explores the ramifications of speaking out against the ideol...

SLR: #WhitesMustPay and what it means for future generations In this article, Simon Lincoln Reader unpacks what racism means in different nations around the world. What does it mean to be ‘anti-racist’ enough? When will the idealism of social justice finally become a reality, and how is this possible? Is it feasible that future generations will be able to live without the shadows cast by racism and injustices of the past or will guilt perpetuate hyper-awareness of race and where we come from? – Melani Nathan SLR: An analysis of the thinking behind #WhitesMustPay By Simon Lincoln Reader*...

SLR: The final nail in the coffin of South African media Who killed the South African media?, asks Simon Lincoln Reader. The columnist goes through a number of suspects – Covid-19, the rise of social media and even  local media moguls. Before ruling out any of the accused, Reader hops over to American and British media that, by his account, sorely lack in objective reporting. ‘When the Guardian and the Independent (amongst others) started demanding the subversion of democracy, the fractures increased in size’, writes Lincoln Reader. Below, the London-based writer dissects South African...