IF THE idea of a sudden influx of cheap chicken wings from the USA wasn't enough to disturb South Africans, who up until now hadn't given much thought to how our local chickens fare, then I guess the threat of arsenic in imported US chicken marks a turning point in environmentalism. The FDA admit...

WHETHER it is Abalimi Bezekhaya in Philippi, Tyisa Nabanye @ Erf 81 in Tamboerskloof, or Gaia Waldorf & Oude Molen Farm in Pinelands, all of the City's urban permaculture projects providing much needed employment, organic produce and sustainability are under threat from developers. Urban agricult...

WHAT is more embarrassing than Kohler-Barnard tweeting about PW Botha? SANEF and the Minister of Justice supporting the career of PW Botha at Naspers. Both parties (Justice and Naspers) have acknowledged papers served in a case before the Equality Court EC19/2015. The case has been brought in ter...

SLATING the rainbow nation narrative has turned into a media cottage industry. If it is not the economics of equality which have put paid to the notion, then it is student revolt on campus, or lectures such as: The rainbow nation is a lie. According to its critics, the rainbow nation is no more....

DO YOU remember when the internet still spread hope? After its invention in the‘80s, we had access to a mass of information, sites such as Napster allowed us to share so-called “private property” easily and, most importantly, we could publish what we had to say ourselves – and people actually lis...

THIS BOOK is rather academic for the general reader but as the title suggests, it's distinctly activist in tone; this review addresses it not academically, but from an activist viewpoint. Written by middle-class South Africans, it is animated by frustration if not anxiety at the increasing "sea o...