
Ziyad Motala
The author is a Professor of law at Howard University School of Law and the former Director of the Comparative and International Law Program conducted at the University of Western Cape since 1995.
Items by Ziyad Motala
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- February 10, 2025 Ziyad Motala
The white man’s burden redux: Trump, Musk, and the fabricated persecution of Afrikaners
With all the moral clarity of a man who once mused about injecting disinfectant to treat COVID; recently floated the idea of taking over Greenland; and reportedly thought nuclear weapons might be a fun tool for hurricane management, Donald Trump has now taken up the righteous cause of South...
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- September 21, 2024 Ziyad Motala
Big Tech's complicity in genocide: The unforgivable silence of online platforms
A damning report, “Palestinian Digital Rights, Genocide, and Big Tech Accountability”, by 7amleh, a Palestinian-led non-profit organisation that is focused on protecting the human rights of Palestinians, has laid bare the disturbing and active role that major online platforms and big tech companies play in perpetuating human rights abuses...