As if cynical government intervention in the media were not bad enough, now we have the scandal involving payments made to a certain journalist at the Independent Group. Does it surprise anybody that Ashley Smith may have been receiving brown paper envelopes stuffed with money from the office of...

SOURCE: Mishkan Ministeries. Provides the following  explanation on the site:- "The two silver trumpets were used to announce removal of the camp, special festivals, the Year of Jubilee, war, or any other notable event (Numbers 10:2-10), which were to be a single piece (probably manufactured like...

In 1914 J.B.M. Hertzog forms the National Party. The following year Nasionale Pers i.e Naspers is formed by the same man, along with a daily newspaper, De Burger, later known as Die Burger. D F Malan, a former minister in the conservative Dutch Reformed Church is persuaded to become editor and is...

This is a visionary text written in 2001 before Web 2.0, Youtube, Facebook and blogging. It predates much of the current debate around the Semantic Web (Web 3.0) and is in line with the 'fuzzy' as opposed to 'neat' view of the emerging Web's structure.  I circulated it amongst friends and even se...

ISRAEL is a false state and the Free Palestine movement is a false struggle.  If we had to measure both the Israeli State and the Free Palestine Movement by the standards of our own democratic revolution,  neither side would stand scrutiny. The shortcomings, not just of the Zionist version of dem...