IT WAS June of 1991, the apartheid government had just unbanned political parties such as the ANC and PAC, exiles were returning to the country, and negotiations towards a new democratic dispensation were in full sway. The First National Conference on Environment & Development, organised by mysel...

READERS may be aware of the circumstances surrounding the hosting of an exclusive "Decolonising the Internet" conference in Cape Town. A conference so exclusive that that it was not simply a well-funded invitation-only event, in the run-up to Wikimania Cape Town, but one which bizarrely excluded...

DEFEND STATUS OF TRUTH & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION BEFORE THE COURTS DEFEND THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA I have less than one month in which to file an SCA appeal in terms of s17 (2) (b) against AJ Martin's racist decision (CA18417/17) to not provide relief wit...

THE argument that Israel represents the 'Jews of South Africa', often made by members of the SAJBD is as fallacious as the equal assertion that BDS and its leadership represent the diversity of Jewish history and culture, in particular the legacy of Jewish activists during the freedom struggle. A...

"Both the SAPS and the NPA colluded with political forces to ensure the deliberate suppression of the bulk of apartheid era cases. Even though the TRC had handed over a list of  several hundred cases to the NPA with the recommendation that they be investigated further, virtually all of them were...

THE over-eager and misguided official who banned me from Wikimania Cape Town for allegedly 'disrupting a pre-event on 'Decolonising the Internet' and also for 'disrupting an event in Tunisia', (both events which I never attended) is no longer at Wikimedia. According to users of website Wikipedioc...