FROM two floppy disks smuggled into South Africa in the late 1980s, to an NGO which continues to play a major role in responding to the Information Technology (IT) requirements of the NGO sector in South Africa, this is the unique story of SANGONeT. In the late 1980s, not long after Bill Gates ha...

TWENTY-two years ago, when Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected leader of a South Africa still emerging from the shadow of apartheid, hopes were high that the hero of the anti-apartheid struggle would lead the nation into an era of equality and prosperity. Three years after his...

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This is the email I sent out yesterday: I WAS BANNED ON BLACK WEDNESDAY Today, I awoke to find out that I had been banned by Politicsweb. Being banned on "Black Wednesday" is more than a little ironic. The centre-right political site, which carries commentary from political parties and commentato...

BUYERS of South African defence industry products last year include sales to countries involved in conflict, in turn the country received weapons and military hardware from nations also involved in conflict zones. The recent wave of student unrest has seen locally produced Nyala APC become a comm...

DURING the struggle I was active on campus. Following the campus unrest at UCT, similar in many respects to the current youth revolt against the system, I enrolled in a course in environmental geoscience whilst also studying politics. It became clear the way forward was to ‘politicise ecology and...