Stanley Pivot didn’t know what to think. What prompted the lengthy message in Turkish? Where did it come from? Who sent it? Was it a warning from a disgruntled reader of his Book-format of his website? Were there pieces there which the reader didn’t agree with, and had threatened reprisal in the Turkish Stanley didn’t understand? Why was it […]
With Oscar Pistorius’ shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, he has added merely one more to the 2500 other women abused and assaulted annually with guns by men in South Africa. It’s so frequent it’s old hat and no longer an event attracting societal concern, although President Zuma had apparently included a reference to this […]





