Polka, one of South Africa's branded ISPs, are offering “ADSL including line rental”, with a “free modem” from R199pm. For starters the package only includes one gigabyte with no local bandwidth. I questioned a telesales person about the one gig cap and she then put me through to MWEB, who have a...

THE well-planned and coordinated pograms against immigrants continued yesterday and well into the night. It is clear from news reports and voices on the ground that the xenophobic attacks are are lot more sinister than one or two isolated incidents but represent a badly though-out attempt to capi...

nutopia Could Nutopia be a solution to the worlds problems, globalisation and the collapse of the nation-state? "We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA." So goes the declaration made on April 1...

Mary Maddock signs Cape Town declaration A GROUNDBREAKING declaration calling for an end to all forced and coerced psychiatric procedures and for the development of alternatives to psychiatry was signed at Cape Town ’s Robben Island Gateway in a ceremony held on Monday, March 24. Members of MindF...

Kobus Faasen is the man at the centre of a storm surrounding Media24 insistance that "Bushmen" is a collective term for the Khoisan, and that it's use of the word does not constitute hate speech. I interviewed Faasen via email and his answers to my questions are reproduced below. DRL  Q.    How w...

Sheer Hypocrisy When a white politician takes a bribe they call it business. Brian Mulroney, ex-Canadian PM and INM Board Member When a black politician takes a bribe, they call it corruption.   Jacob Zuma, ex-Deputy President, South Africa  Expose the Independent Group’s Cover-Up FREE THE MEDIA!...