EDITOR’S NOTE

I’VE enjoyed the various cartoons and videos online parodying the Little Gujarat restaurant, such as the one suggesting one can order some Indian delicacy with a medical degree on the side. But this is a serious matter, one that’s been taken up by the ANC Youth League which has threatened to shut the UKZN medical school down.

Those in positions of power need to help us save this great institution. In the meantime, we report on the latest developments (see page 5). And to encourage public participation on this matter we’ve also decided to run an emotive letter on this page from a parent who is also a member of a minority representation group.

Following Monday’s bomb attack in Manchester you may be asking yourself questions about the “jihadi state of mind”. But this state of mind doesn’t only find expression in so-called Islamist terror (see page 11).

And did you remember to celebrate Africa Day on Friday? See pages 8 and 18.

When the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s “came out of nowhere” in 1967 I was only one year old and so can’t tell you all about the memories the album evokes to this day. Thankfully, local historians Catherine and Michael Greenham were old enough (page 15). We’re indebted to them.

Piet Byleveld will be remembered for solving mysteries such as the Leigh Matthews case. We have something to help you remember the super sleuth (page 16).

With Germany apparently about to apologise for the 1904 genocide of the people of Namibia, will saying sorry be enough? (page 18).

On our Big Issue page, Constance Gaanakgomo shines the spotlight on the sexual conduct and power relations between bosses and their subordinates.

This, of course, follows Minister Jeff Radebe’s sexting scandal.

A blessed and peaceful Ramadaan to all Muslims.