TopTV plans to “release a flood of filth into our communities”
Errol Naidoo says that if “TopTV succeeds in launching porn channels in SA, It will open the floodgates for other broadcasters to open the sewers and release a flood of filth into our communities”, and is leading a proposed church boycott of the pay TV channel if they do go ahead.
Lotter trial: Satan (or maybe God) made me do it
The trial of the Lotter siblings for murdering their parents will resume in March 2012. At that point, we’ll hopefully start hearing evidence which corresponds to more reasonable hypotheses for why they committed these crimes, instead of tales involving tokoloshes and demonic possession.
John Gray’s accommodationist waffle
While it’s undeniably true that what we do matters more than what we believe – given that what we do is all that anyone else ever sees – this truism can’t be deployed to evade the fact that what we believe can sometimes affect what we do.
The JSC hearings on Mogoeng Mogoeng
The nomination of Mogoeng Mogoeng as Chief Justice (an appointment now confirmed by President Zuma) – in the context of our society’s ills – symbolises a lack of concern for gender equality, poverty, and freedom of sexual preference.
Allowing yourself to be wrong
Beyond issues of tone and the politics of productive engagement, fruitful conversations also require all parties to admit to the possibility of error. If you don’t embrace the possibility of being wrong, there’s no chance of discovering that you might be.
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