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Habib is our Hero of the Hour

Habib is our Hero of the Hour

Adam Habib is the man at the centre of a storm surrounding United States' government ideological exclusions resulting from the Patriot Act and continued onslaught by the Bush administration on academic and intellectual freedom. As a blogger who believes strongly in these rights as well as the rig...

Cape Doctor’s Heavy Dose of Medicine

Cape Doctor’s Heavy Dose of Medicine

THIS billboard says it all. It's not what you think, since the Cape Doctor referred to is the Cape's infamous wind, the South Easter. Just how much of our language is constructed through metaphor and simile? In today's object-orientated world where computers appear to "know" more than "people", i...

2010: Cape Town Arts still “Cinderella Status”

2010: Cape Town Arts still “Cinderella Status”

AS Cape Town gears up for the 2010 soccer world cup, fears are being expressed that local arts and culture will be driven onto the sidelines as much-needed financial support is redirected into building and construction around the soccer stadium. Instead of seeing the event as a purely FIFA affair...

Electronic Frontier Foundation impotent in Africa

Electronic Frontier Foundation impotent in Africa

DESPITE claims to promote online freedom, to represent the "public interest" on the internet "when our freedoms in the networked world come under attack," the Electronic Frontier Foundation started by mavericks Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow is impotent when it comes to jurisdictions outside o...