THOSE bloggers who believe the Online Petition Against Prejudice in SA Publishing, is a merely a response to music industry politics, think again. When has the media ever bothered to cover local music, in particular those musicians marginalised by the apartheid system? please sign the petition so...
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ONLINE PETITION TO END PREJUDICE IN PUBLISHING
We the undersigned, demand that South Africa's publishing industry, in particular, Naspers/Media24 and its affiliates such as "Die Burger" put an end to prejudice in publishing and that media companies stop discriminating against employees, clients and the public on the basis of faith, class, col...
FW DE KLERK: Will he renounce Nuclear Power before he dies?
AS THE time rapidly draws near when we will lose De Klerk and other SA nobel laureates, will the man who crossed the Rubicon and dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons programme renounce atomic power in toto? Will FW finally kick his 50 cigeratte a day, Koeberg habit? http://nuclearweaponarchi...
Karoo towns set to make a bomb
The Headline of this article speaks for itself, but the content is misleading. Instead of referring to uranium and nuclear power as the answer to global warming, the reporter would do well to research the link between uranium mining and cancer, as well as the negative impact of atomic energy, in...
Hummers and the Big Mac
YET another example of the schizofrenic development path we are choosing as a nation – apparently the South Africa auto industry is all set to build those gas-guzzling, HUMMERS. Symbol of American stupidity and the real cause behind the Iraq War. Estimates are you need to invade at least one fore...
South Africa’s Freedom — The Bill of Rights — ten years on…and nothing but rules.
ITS BEEN ten years since the enactment of our Bill of Rights enshrining freedoms such as speech, political association and the right to think, but sadly, little is being done to celebrate South Africa's crowning achievement. Political parties hate the constitution, judges claim more than their fa...