TWO incidents, both of which involve the loss of the right to reply, bring home the fuzzy nature of ethics and the erosion of press freedom as South Africa's media becomes increasingly driven by profit, money and power. The Mail & Guardian itself, never one to remain silent on anything, has slipp...

Hi folks, for a while there I was, well, totally disembodied and cast off into the perilous wasteland of the nether regions of blogmark, only to stand in the shade and watch as my whole online life was inexorably deleted. Who says the electrosphere isn't dirty, and perilous to boot. (excuse the p...

WITH the successful launch of the glitzy Mandela Rhodes block in Cape Town this week, other projects have sprung to mind — The new PW Botha Plaza on the Foreshore, the Mbeki Vlok Square near the parliamentary precinct, and soon to be announced, the Sisulu Verwoerd foundation which has plans for a...

The evil Dr Blofeld, oops, Rumsfeld, has resigned from General George Walter Bush's cabinet as the democratics sweep both houses, the senate and congress in America's schizofrenic two-party political system. In other words the world is guaranteed complete mayhem and evil every four to eight years...

There is a little shop of apartheid horror with a gothic bookshelf, forever emblazoned with the collected works of Pieter Willem Botha. For so many victims of a racist conflict that claimed the lives of countless youths, both black and white, PW Botha represented the ideology of a cruel and inhum...

YOU see it everywhere, developments that cater to the rich while excluding the poor. Whether it is the redevelopment of Cape Town's Waterfront by a DUBAI leisure company to make way for tourists; the fencing off of a public beach in Knysna to benefit private landowners; the introduction of an eli...