From The Thornveld May 2025 – Welcome
  • The lie about white genocide in South Africa

    SOUTH Africa’s entire history has been one of dispossession; and now repossession. Violence is hardwired into the nation’s social fabric and psyche. But its dynamics are by no means straightforward; nor can they be explained […]

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  • Journalism for a democratic South Africa

    THERE is still no definite explanation, political or financial, for the demise of the Rand Daily Mail forty years ago. But on 14 June 1985 the Weekly Mail (WM) was launched by redundant journalists. It […]

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