Category: Politics

I don’t usually repost from other sources, but this one (because of the Mandela reference) caught my attention. Nurul Izzah: Chinese nationals’ experience in immigration lockup inhumane

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Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar said while prisons and detention centres were meant to restrict freedom of movement, it was not meant to be a place of torture and abuse. “No detained individual, regardless of nationality or background, should be subject to such harrowing conditions,” she told Malaysiakini…. “Such conditions are violations of basic human…

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The Publicity Stuff is Exhausting

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The hybrid-memoir I wrote, Too White to Be Coloured Too Coloured to be Black: On the Search for Home and Meaning, was published at the end of April. The in-person launch was led by Haji Mohamed Dawjee and the online launch was led by Ferial Haffajee, two of the most exceptional people I know. The…

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There are conflicts all around the world, but Steenhuizen goes where the blue-eyed and blonde haired are killing and dying.

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If we treat the Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuizen’s visit to war-ravaged Ukraine as something important, meaningful, sincere and significant, we are duty bound to explore some of the motivations for his journey into the warzone. This applies to those of us who believe that there should be no limitations on what may be thought…

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The Book has Been Published

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The memoir I worked on last year has been published. It is being distributed to bookstores at the moment. It’s a somewhat daunting thing. I now have to engage in things like book launches, literary festivals (three in the next two months) as well as radio and TV interviews. These are the least favourite things…

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