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...

ADOLF HITLER developed obnoxious theories regarding a distinct Jewish race. His race supremacist views have been publicly applauded by the disgraced former SRC-president of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Mcebo Dlamini. Like Hitler, Dlamini makes a category error by incorrectly attrib...

BLUE STATE DIGITAL are the campaign managers responsible for the astounding Obama electoral victory. At least this is how they like to view themselves, as a "digital strategy and technology firm" that specializes in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking, and constituency development. Th...