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...

RESISTANCE to war has a long and noble history. From pacifists during the Anglo-Boer War, objectors to WW1 and WW2, conscripts against the Vietnam War and South Africa’s own Border War, the names and faces of those who have chosen the difficult path of combating militarism and state-sponsored agg...

Significant departures from the political "truth" associated with the Jerusalem conflict 1. DEBUNKED: East Jerusalem is the Capital of Palestine Under International Law, and the Corpus Separatum, the City of Jerusalem was to be an independent enclave. It was Jordan which occupied East Jerusalem 1...