PRIOR to 1994 “black persons” did not possess the vote. The majority were relegated to so-called independent homelands, most did not own land as such, and if they did, were largely dispossessed in one way or another by a labour system, which imposed a hut tax, drafted labourers onto the mines, an...

It took a global economic collapse for timebanking to emerge as the next wave  of the alternative economy. While readers may already be familier with the concept of a local energy trading system or LETS, and South Africa already has a well-established complimentary currency in the form of the Tal...

The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has passed legislation[1] affecting the lives and rights of shack dwellers. The shack-dweller movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, has challenged this law and will take their case to the Constitutional Court. But after a provincial judge ruled against the movem...

SINCE we are still battling to get any credit for the 34000 pages we have served to the community, Medialternatives has had to syndicate via Google Syndication for gratis, in return for the prospect that t he company will allow us to join the Adsense programme. WordPress does not offer its own pr...

Are we not losing the plot, the meta-narrative in which a story of market folly is allowed to amplify itself via the Internet  in an interconnected world, thus driving more foreclosures, as investors lose confidence in the system? How much of what we see, is the result of computer technology, vir...