Four October 2025 by-elections decided by 454, 465, 325 — and two votes. Many wards now turn on fewer than 500 votes, about 150 households. [...]
A recruitment route into the UN Secretariat. The composition of international institutions reflects who applied a decade earlier. [...]
Keep a visitors’ book. Preserve the marriage registers, the architectural drawings, the mimbar. Everything old was once new — the record worth having in fifty years is the one being made now. [...]
Regulation creates a monopoly within each faith, and a dependence that blurs the duty to speak truth to power. The CRL has signalled interest in the Rwandan model. [...]
Quebec has produced recommendations restricting religious expression. In South Africa the CRL’s Section 22 proposals point the same way — and a campaign that waits to see how it turns out is not a campaign. [...]
Over 100 learners attended; the IEC registered around 50 in 45 minutes. The questions that came afterwards were the most telling part. [...]
The ICC Deputy Prosecutor warns that Sudan’s civil war has reached an intolerable state, and points to crimes against humanity in Darfur. [...]
Muslims grew fastest; Christians lagged behind global population growth. But the most significant finding may be the rise of the religiously unaffiliated to third largest group worldwide. [...]
A dashboard for committee attendance and the progress of bills — and the right to put your views directly to a portfolio committee, which few people use. [...]
Ward 110 in Durban North was decided by 22 votes. Fewer than 2 500 votes chose the representative of more than 18 000 registered voters — roughly 600 households. [...]
SAMNET has no objection to an Easter service for those who observe Easter. The objection is to all members being required to attend a denominational event — and to the wider pattern it sits in. [...]
Nader Hashemi, Mobashra Tazamal and Sahar Aziz on the campaign against the few US academic centres working on Islamophobia. [...]