Reaching out from the Global South
Dear Leslie, I respond to your recent opinion piece in the Daily Maverick. During the landmark People's Health Assembly at UWC in 2011, I was struck by the words of the late Prof Emeritus David Saunders, during his opening address, ( in which he w...
THE Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has published a sweeping draft 'National Artificial Intelligence Policy' that aims to put South Africa at the forefront of the global AI revolution. But nothing could be further from the truth. Buried in the fine print is a proposal that s...
I'VE LIVED for twenty years with a ban on my writing by Media24. The company destroyed black jazz history, photography and a piece on Iranian Faridah Zariv's "Hand of Fatima" exhibition at the Bo Kaap. For my trouble I was locked up, subjected to a racist religious inquisition. (All documented he...