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: South Africa
Proposed SABC ‘Internet Tax’ is regressive, defeats purpose of content development
THE FIRST South Africa got wind of the draft license regulations mooted by the SABC was in the form of a broad content debate. One involving Netflix and to some degree Youtube. The country is no exception with Canada recently passing laws to compel streaming firms to pay for local content. Then S...
Trevor Manual, spare us the BS
BEING HALF-RIGHT, often means being half-wrong. Former finance minister Trevor Manual, the man who seemingly quit politics to take-up a lucrative job at NM Rothchilds, a company in bed with the Rupert-Remgro-Kagiso-Naspers cabal, is no stranger to scandals. Often vocal in support of 'Coloured ide...
Senekal: Time for genuine Fair Trade Certification and income equalisation?
IT IS easy to become cynical following the events surrounding Senekal over the past two weeks. On the one hand, extremists who justify farm murders by driving an overtly racist Afro-chauvinist narrative (Africa exclusively for black Africans). A story which ignores the very real problem faced by...
Dear Mmusi Maimane
Dear Mmusi Maimane, Your recent comments about race in particular your statement about 'multiracialism' refers. It was PW Botha, the arch proponent of multiracialism, who advocated three separate houses of parliament for 'whites', 'Indians' and 'coloureds' at the same time as endorsing bantustans...
Living in the Heart of Kakness
THE JOKE about apartheid was that 'if you were white you could be reclassified coloured, and if you were coloured you could be reclassified black', but 'no blacks became white and no whites became black'. Apartheid race classification never worked, precisely because many people fell through the g...