In an article published April 27, 2012 in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Moroccan-Italian journalist and author Anna Mahjar-Barducci, reviewed the efforts of the Berber Tuareg rebels in Mali to secede and establish the independent state of Azawad. The following is extracted from the article: "There i...

A year ago Medialternatives reported on Nedbank's introduction of a biometric fingerprinting device  “pursuant to legislation” being passed and which ignored issues such as privacy, the right to bodily integrity and user consent. We characterised the introduction as a "massive bungle" on Nedbanks...

[Yet another unpublished letter to the Cape Times. DRL] Dear Ed, Cape Times Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Letter to the Editor refers. Terry Crawford-Brown's latest apoplexy regarding Arab Jews living in Israel is insightful. The least of which is the lengths to which Anti-Semitic bigots will go in...

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South Africa only got television in 1976 thanks to apartheid and the National Party. This pattern of late-adoption of technology was repeated again under a socialist government when the ANC imposed similar tactics of isolation. Instead of unbundling Telkom, the national cable company created by t...

Nothing like a bit of public nudity to highlight a good cause.