MOVES are afoot by state-sponsored news channel Russia Today (RT) to set up a regional hub in South Africa. Despite our pacifist constitution expressly outlawing 'propaganda for war' under article 16, (2) (a) — limitations on press freedom when it comes to calumny and disinformation to pursue 'sp...

AT the face of it, a cartoon caricature of a 'greedy capitalist' isn't anti-Semitic. Taken within the context of a boycott and disinvestment campaign against Israeli goods? Well, there are some who may be offended. Personally I don't find such images, which are redolent of similar Nazi propaganda...

IN 2005 the Mail & Guardian launched a news aggregation site Amagama. At the same time it hijacked content from users on its own free Blogmark platform, and thus work posted under a non-commercial creative commons license scheme. The company thus simply appropriated the material and republished i...

IN 2005 the earlier apartheid-era Nursing Act was redrafted to provide a 'democratic sheen'. Gone was the French term 'accoucheur', meaning 'one who assists at birth' usually a 'male midwife or obstetrician'. Colonial distinctions between midwife and pupil were instead replaced by several new cat...

FOR too long my own country South Africa has been trading off bloodshed — the 69 deaths at Sharpville, the apartheid-era massacres of Boipatong (45), and earlier loss of life at Bulhoek (163) and Leliesfontein (35) which occurred under the colonial authorities. As a consequence, of our hard-won t...

OVER the years, former gold-dealer and banker, Terry Crawford-Browne has proven to be somewhat of a jaded crusader against war, that is, an opponent of militarism whenever it suits him. Thus while he opposes Western arms deals under the rubric "Economists Allied For Arms Reduction" and especially...