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How Woke activism destroyed UCT’s Professor Bongani Mayosi

The destructively judgmental element of Wokeism at UCT in the turbulent Fallist period claimed the life by suicide of the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the most decent of men, Professor Bongani Mayosi. Richard Wilkinson reflects on the man and the moral failures exhibited by some of his colleagues in the name of virtual signalling.

Press release from FSU Australia: The eSafety Commissioner's latest legal loss (including serious judicial criticism)

FSU Australia scores a win against the eSafety Commissioner of Australia.The Commissioner was found to have been illegally taking down social media posts! A tribunal has found the eSafety Office has been operating outside the law by sending informal takedown notices to social media platforms. The informal takedowns meant the original poster was unaware they had their post removed & stripped them of their legal right to appeal the takedown.

The return of free speech

Simon Lincoln Reader welcomes Donald Trump's executive order to restore free speech which protects people with objectionable or pathetic views. And says that is exactly the way it should be.

Ruminations on the "Truth" (Part 2)

In Part 2 of this series, Terence Corrigan discusses how people and societies can protect themselves from misinformation, and how they should genuinely honour the concept of "truth", both individually and collectively.

Ruminations on “Truth” (Part 1)

Our public conversation is dominated by narrative, by emotion and the heady lure of perceived virtue. In appropriating the concept to truth, as has been done in South Africa it delivered the country to something of a post-truth world long before Donald Trump’s name appeared on a ballot half a world away. Terence Corrigan, Project & Publications Manager at the Institute of Race Relations analyses the narration of our conversation. This is the 1st of a 2 part series.

Welcome to 2025 and the year of "The Donald", like him or loathe him

FSU SA welcomes you to 2025 and right up will be President Donald Trump's first executive order today which is called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Who'd have thought that a 14-word title could be clickbait?

Interview: Subduing free speech in Britain - a Daily Friend Show Special with Simon Lincoln Reader

In this Daily Friend Show Special, done in association with the FSU SA, Sara Gon talks to Simon Lincoln Reader about the bizarre and chilling clampdown on free speech in Britain.

Free Speech Matters Episode 5: Cancelled by a poetry group for being a zionist

Sara Gon interviews Associate Professor of Philosophy about being cancelled by a poetry group for being a zionist & talks about what it's like to be a classical liberal academic at UCT currently.