Apartheid Policing, now and then: Political activist, Solomon Modipane, died 1969, the reason the police gave was "slipped on a piece of soap and fatally injured himself". Political activist, Ahmed Timol, died 1971, The excuse "fell from the 10th floor window" at the John Vorster Square police st...

Google has launched a trial program that will tap into unused frequencies in South Africa's broadcast TV spectrum The Web giant announced today it will use the unused spectrum, so-called "white spaces" to provide Internet access to 10 schools in the Cape Town area. The goal of the trial is to sho...

Today Smile 90.4fm  – Cape Town’s new FM radio station –  started broadcasting. Backed by SA’s pre-eminent film producer Anant Singh, Smile 90.4fm won the first FM licence to be awarded by the regulator, Icasa, for Cape Town in 14 years. Smile 90.4fm – which held its official launch in Cape Town...

Human Rights Day this year marks exactly 10 years since the final TRC recommendations were handed over to then-President Thabo Mbeki. Civil society says there is a significant amount of unfinished business relating to these recommendations with issues like reparations, compensation, and prosecuti...

IT'S BEEN a long time coming, the new tax proposals mooted by government could end up doing more damage to Internet access than any censorship laws. In his latest budget speech, Pravin Gordhan outlined a plan whereby " foreign businesses which sell e-books, music and other digital goods and servi...

BLAMING the Jews has become a national sport in South Africa. Instead of taking the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to the next level and prosecuting perpetrators of crimes against humanity it has become convenient to simply blame the Jews for apartheid. The latest incident in which ANC...