IN AN editorial published on IOL today, Iqbal Survé CEO of the Independent Media Group, a group with 9 daily newspapers, 10 Weekend Newspapers and 2 financial papers, doesn't seem to get that the role of newspapers is to reflect back the diversity of opinion in the country. Instead he seeks to ca...
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Aggett Inquest, Mandela Release 30th Anniversary, Oh Shucks
IF YOU READING this piece, then you one of many South Africans turning to alternative media for a different perspective than the mainstream press. It is small consolation that we are all witnesses to the Aggett Inquest, continuing during the 30th year following the Mandela Release ,while FW de K...
XR action outside Cape Town Coal Conference
Visuals courtesy of Kevin Rack. Full Story here
South Africa’s judiciary, too many gone to the dogs?
IF THE probe of 5 Kwazulu-Natal judges fingered in a UK investigation of a $2 trillion-a-year (R28 trillion) money-laundering ring isn't enough to grab your attention, or the revelations of judicial impropriety, influence-peddling and nepotism levelled against Western Cape High Court Judge Presid...
Cannabis & Canapax: healing not dealing?
WHILE THE Canadian state of Ontario was removing the cap on the number of marijuana shops in the province, South Africa's drug enforcement agencies were busy taking down a dagga dispensary franchise operation known as Canapax. News of cannabis operations being opened to the public overseas were m...
Following Reconciliation Day, an open letter to the TRC Commissioners
Messers Desmond Tutu, Sisi Virginia Khampepe, Wynand Malan, Yasmin Sooka, et al. Dear Commissioners, I write this letter having had good cause to reflect upon several events of this past year on Reconciliation Day. It should be noted that Reconciliation Day, formerly 'Day of the Vow', or 'Day of...
