HE COULD have given a speech from constitutional hill, a lecture from an academic institution or a civil society NGO, instead Ronnie Kasrils, the self-appointed deacon of moral rectitude in the Middle East chose Claremont Main Road Mosque. Delivering a scathing rebuke of the treatment meted out t...

IF THE latest IPCC intergovernmental report on climate change, didn't draw your attention to the dire impacts of global warming at 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels then a new study of the Earth's oceans, showing the planet is much more sensitive to fossil-fuel emissions than past studies have s...

Dear Douglas, COMPLAINT WIKIMANIA CAPE TOWN While I appreciate the trouble you have taken to respond to me, in particular your acknowledgement of my contributions to the community over the past years, your unsupported assertions are both unwarranted and unsubstantiated. I therefore respond to you...

Dear David, I am writing in reply to the email (and attached letter) you sent the legal department at the Wikimedia Foundation on the 6 August 2018 (and copying me in on) in my capacity as the organising chairperson of Wikimania 2018. It is with great regret that I learnt of your removal from Wik...

DAVID ROBERT LEWIS PO Box 4398 Cape Town South Africa 8000 6 August 2018, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 1 Montgomery Street Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Phone: +1-415-839-6885 Fax: +1-415-882-0495 per email: legal@wikimedia.org COMPLAINT REGARDING WIKIMANIA CAPE TOWN Dear Sir/Madam In addi...

SEVERAL pieces on the right-wing political site Politicsweb, a local news platform run by James Myburgh, demonstrates the narrow racialism of its multifarious contributors. The site purports to carry opinions from across the political spectrum, but has a seemingly limitless abundance of polemic a...