The Dangers of Comfortable Platforms: (How the Mail & Guardian placed arms-capital Zionism beside Winnie Mandela, Youth Day and Gaza)
The Mail & Guardian’s decision to publish Ivor Ichikowitz, founder of Paramount Group, one of Africa’s most prominent private defence and aerospace companies, as a moral voice on Winnie Mandela during its 1976/Youth Day period was an insult delivered inside a sacred commemorative space. Youth Day belongs to 1976, to Black children and young people who faced police bullets, detention, torture, exile, prison and the long machinery of the apartheid state.
Mail & Guardian beats AfriForum complaint over ‘white genocide’ opinion piece
The Ombud did not rule on whether white genocide exists. He did something more important for public discourse. He ruled that a columnist may examine how AfriForum’s Washington campaign was received, radicalised and acted upon, and may interpret that outcome in severe terms.