The Dangers of Comfortable Platforms: (How the Mail & Guardian placed arms-capital Zionism beside Winnie Mandela, Youth Day and Gaza)

The Mail & Guardian’s decision to publish Ivor Ichikowitz, founder of Paramount Group, one of Africa’s most prominent private defence and aerospace companies, as a moral voice on Winnie Mandela during its 1976/Youth Day period was an insult delivered inside a sacred commemorative space. Youth Day belongs to 1976, to Black children and young people who faced police bullets, detention, torture,…