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Former US President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance, a Republican from Ohio and Republican vice-presidential nominee, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Monday, July 15, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump shooting is a symptom of our failure to talk

Words are important. Our failure to wield them responsibly has put us on a path to vitriol and violence

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators’s visit to Germany. Photo: Getty Images

100 years of fascism: history shows how fascism can be the dark side to liberation

Manipulators of nationalism, religious identity and racism are a constant risk to democracy across the world.

Can they believe him? A couple watch Vladimir Putin on TV in their home in Luzki near Moscow. Putin has blocked access to foreign news outlets and FaceBook and enacted a law to punish anyone spreading ‘false information’ about Russia’s war on Ukraine. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

False propaganda offends human dignity

Russia Today convinced me that Vladimir Putin is a liar and a power-hungry empire builder

A quick trek to ancient Egypt during lockdown

Well, the pharaonic Voortrekker Monument to be precise for John Davenport

Brilliant autocrat: Ferdinand Piëch drove Volkswagen to the top.

VW engineer, visionary and Pïech of work

When the brilliant automobile engineer died, he left behind a legacy tainted with scandal

Lost Boys alleges that apartheid-era ministers Magnus Malan and John Wiley, among others, were paedophiles who trafficked children — mostly boys of colour. (Leon Botha/Beeld)

Self-loathing and self-repression lead to the suppression of the “other”

New guidelines for psychological work with queer people will advance everyone’s mental health

‘That crisis is so profound that it will be impossible for Ramaphosa

SA’s crisis needs a democratic resolution

A return to elitism will not enable the development of a viable society or secure a democratic future

United States president-elect Donald Trump on the cover of Time Magazine after being named its person of the year.

Time Magazine names Donald Trump person of the year

The United States president-elect says the accolade means a lot to him.

Netanyahu under fire for Hitler claim

Israeli PM accused of aiding Holocaust deniers by saying grand mufti gave Hitler idea to kill Jews.

Saving face: Axed Wits student leader Mcebo Dlamini should rather have been ‘rehabilitated’.

Ex-Wits SRC president’s Hitler comments were freedom of speech

Wits has found that it cannot fault former SRC president Mcebo Dlamini for expressing his admiration for Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.

Lest we forget: A wall at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau

Verwoerd would love Dlamini

Few things would have pleased Verwoerd more than the idea that racism and race essentialism are still alive and well.

Saving face: Axed Wits student leader Mcebo Dlamini should rather have been ‘rehabilitated’.

Wits: Difficult issues should not be stifled

Free speech, however unpalatable the subject, is fundamental to a university.

The swastika

Hitler imagery in Thai junta propaganda film sparks outrage

The short film commissioned by the junta has left people outraged and baffled after the seemingly harmless video showed images of Adolf Hitler.

Without action “there will be no tomorrow”, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

SA Jewish Report compares Tutu to Hitler

An article in the South African Jewish report accuses Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of "preying" on Israel, together with Hamas.

Berlin

What if the Germans had won the first world war?

With the war’s centenary near, this is not a parlour game. Counterfactual conjecture allows us to see the conflict far more objectively.

Three studios – MGM

Did Jewish studio bosses bow to Nazi wishes?

A book by a Harvard scholar argues that US producers in the 1930s "collaborated" with the Nazis with cuts to films and self-censorship.

The owner of an Indian clothing store has said that he would only change its name from “Hitler” if he was compensated for re-branding costs.

‘Hitler’ clothing store stirs anger in India

The owner of an Indian clothing store has said that he would only change its name from "Hitler" if he was compensated for re-branding costs.

Headstone of Hitler’s parents to be removed

A relative of Adolf Hitler’s has asked for the removal of the tombstone marking his parents’ grave.

Uproar over first German post-war reprint of Mein Kampf

Academics say the time has come for some of the taboos surrounding Hitler’s book in Germany to fall.

Critics celebrate after Hitler loses his head

”Adolf Hitler has left us — after a very short visit,” concluded Die Welt am Sonntag after an attack on a wax figure of the Nazi leader.