FOR DECADES Naspers was during the apartheid years, an incubator for racist government, producing no less than three Prime Ministers. PW Botha, HF Verwoerd and DF Malan. All had the backing of the corporation formed by the Broederbond. With the appointment of a new local CEO, following a listing...

THE past week has seen movement by the NPA on several TRC cases. Some might say better late than never, but its still an uphill task getting the NPA to make good on the recommendations of the commission, not to mention our own difficulties in gaining access to justice in a civil case brought to […]

READERS may be aware of the circumstances surrounding the hosting of an exclusive "Decolonising the Internet" conference in Cape Town. A conference so exclusive that that it was not simply a well-funded invitation-only event, in the run-up to Wikimania Cape Town, but one which bizarrely excluded...

IF YOU remember South Africa during the 1980s, then you probably were never there. Check out this review of Carsten Rasch's semi-autobiographical work 'Between Rock and a hard place', written up by Michael Hardaker on Litnet. "This is a vital, tumbling, scrambling, breathless, profane, sweat-stai...

THE argument that Israel represents the 'Jews of South Africa', often made by members of the SAJBD is as fallacious as the equal assertion that BDS and its leadership represent the diversity of Jewish history and culture, in particular the legacy of Jewish activists during the freedom struggle. A...