EARTHLIFE Africa (ELA), the environmental organisation started by 'four bearded white men' during the 1980s, in the aftermath of the banning of the End Conscription Campaign, transformed itself into a national movement headed by women, in the process winning awards. One black woman in particular,...

READERS may remember the controversy surrounding the banning and destruction of material published by Medialternatives. In particular the circumstances surrounding the elimination of my book review of A Secret Burden by none other than M&G editor Ferial Haffajee. The book itself was a collection...

THAT some commentators and journalists are rising to the defense of paramilitary politics in South Africa is not all that surprising. Far-right spokesperson Simon Shear, whom the Daily Vox’s Sipho Hlongwane insists is required reading on the subject of the EFF and the urgent topic of whether self...

IT IS NOT often that one gets to see blatant greenwashing non-science on SABC, 'the use of marketing to portray an organization's products, activities or policies as environmentally friendly when they are not'. The latest antics of the Dept of Environment's Edna Molewa is possibly a low-point in...