DESPITE its promotion of a 'peaceful Olympics', China has intensified its crackdown on Tibet this week following the most significant uprising in nearly 50 years. The wave of mainly peaceful protests against the Chinese government that has swept across Tibet since March 10 is a result of more tha...

Digital information technology contributes to the world by making it easier to copy and modify information. Computers promise to make this easier for all of us. Not everyone wants it to be easier. The system of copyright gives software programs “owners”, most of whom aim to withhold software's po...

There were reservations, I admit to being an XP convert, after a harrowing experience being dumped by the Apple community I helped create in the late eighties South Africa, many of whom went headlong and bling into the corporate sphere, sporting nasty condescending white ibooks, with cold callous...

THE sad truth of South Africa’s second decade of democracy is that racism has prevailed. You see it in the vindication of those who once fought for white supremacy – to date not one apartheid general has been brought to book – you see it in the slur against Asian-Africans – so-called Chinese of S...

CHERYLL DUDLEY of the ACDP has revealed her life as the grandchild of a sex worker. In an open debate last night between various members of SWEAT moderated by Judge Dennis Davis, Dudley spoke of her turmoil growing up as the child of a sex-worker's daughter. "This was before I found Jesus Christ"...

David Robert Lewis Originally uploaded by BOOKphotoSA This is my book lumberjack shot showing me at the Cape Town Book Fair, taken by Book SA website stand. If you look closely you will see that my head is about to explode from the amount of literature, promotional bumph, cheese, wine and pretzel...