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Retold wrong: An auction of enslaved people in America in the early 19th century. Image: Rischgitz/Getty Images

Friday is a feeling | Call me old-fashioned but human beings are still valuable

AI has set time ticking for humanity

The tide is slowly turning on uncritical pro-West reporting on issues such as Russia’s war on Ukraine (above) or Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Prelude to an apocalyptic, dystopian scenario: Russia’s war on Ukraine

Will the West be able to summon the fortitude to oppose Tsar Putin?

City of Ekurhuleni, Mayor Mzwandile Masina campaigns on October 03, 2021 in Ekurhuleni, South Africa. South Africa’s municipal elections will be held on 01 November 2021 to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country’s nine provinces. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Khaya Koko: Katlehong is Mzwandile Masina’s ‘Animal Farm’

The Ekurhuleni mayor’s family home and the Katlehong section in which it is situated are spared the debilitating five-hour blackouts from powerless Eskom

More equal: One can’t say much about the army lahnees’ ability to follow Covid-19 rules: distancing, masks and smoking . (newzroom afrika)

Some are more equal than others

It’s do what we say, not what we do, as the ANC lays Andrew Mlangeni to rest

Scuppered: Critical records of our past are being ditched by the very instutions that should be preserving them. The library in Springs, the birthplace Nadine Gordimer, got rid of at least one of her books. (William Campbell/Sygma/Getty Images)

Importance of preserving the archive

If we are to make sense of the present and plan for the future we must understand our past, and so we must preserve our records

Strikingly original: Jolyon Nuttall’s essays demonstrate a preoccupation with clarity and concision, discipline and attention to detail. (Supplied)

‘I was there’: Essays that map a life

Academic Achille Mbembe sat down with retired journalist Jolyon Nuttall, who is also his father-in-law, to talk about his new book of essays

Facebook is hoping that videos made by users themselves are what will keep people watching. (Reuters)

Be warned: ‘Tweetspeak’ from our politicians is reminiscent of an Orwellian dystopia

Tweetspeak replacing empathetic, thoughtful, reasoned communication would alarm the author.

Modise’s sex no concern to pigs

Women get a raw deal but that has nothing to do with leaving animals to starve.

It is Orwell’s paranoia that gives his writing its power and urgency

George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes Big Brother paranoia

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" depicts a society in which liberty was impossible – so how should we respond to this new threat?

Anniversaries from ‘unhistory’

The way we remember the past often illuminates what we choose to forget.

Out with the old

Proposed new legislation could see the death of the second-hand bookstore, writes André Krüger.

Clinton has run campaign as Bush runs the country

We all saw it. Indeed, that was the whole point. In the United States, the networks stopped regular programming so we had little choice. The White House wanted to make sure we…

Zille warns of slide towards Animal Farm state

The African National Congress is intent on turning South Africa into an authoritarian state, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille warned on Friday. ”The evidence is now…