THAT SOUTH AFRICA'S legal enterprise is essentially a predatory profession taking advantage of apartheid privilege at the same time that it denies access to legal aid for ordinary citizens on an equitable basis is abundantly clear. Pro Bono criter...
Category: Media Activism
Clash of Media Titans
One wonders why the Mail & Guardian's Chris Roper felt the need to save the skin of his own "reporters", that of one Craig McKune, by repeating a journalistic fabrication? In a piece of rhetoric without any substance, Roper repeats McKune's allegation that Dr Iqbel Surve, the new head of Independ...
The Obama Contradiction
SPEAKING in front of the U.N. general assembly, 26 September 2012, U.S President Barack Obama called on world leaders to confront the forces of intolerance and extremism within their own countries and permit more freedom at home. The blatant deception in these remarks is so startling that when I...
SA media corruption under the spotlight
THE Ashley Smith saga is just the tip of the iceberg. What with an Independent News Media director being rapped over the knuckles by the Canadian legislature for bribery and corruption (should former politicians be allowed to own a stake in the media?) and former apartheid cronies acting with im...
Amagama closes chapter in blogging infamy
THE South African blogging platform which stripped the Creative Commons license from its users material and rebranded itself without bothering to consult or engage on the issue of copyright, has finally closed. The Mail and Guardian announced the closure of their blogging platform Amagama in a le...
INM board mischief, mere window-dressing?
IT'S amazing what difference a week can make in the lives of today's corporate executives. Take the changing fortune of deposed INM board member Ivan "The Terrible" Fallon, or the fate of media tycoon, Tony O'Reilly, replaced by son Gavin? After the INM night of the long knives, with one other O'...