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...

FOR years the tragic conflict between those who want Israel to be replaced by an Arab state from the Jordan to the sea; those who want a greater Israel to include the ancient sites of Judea and Samaria; those who demand that Israel retreat to the 1967 borders (which could mean giving up Jerusalem...

TWO incidents involving campus politics in South Africa need some explanation. The first involved the Durban University of Technology (DUT). Last week its SRC chair was calling for all Jews to be deregistered and in particular, those Jews who support Israel. This week, the SRC was issuing a retra...