The Cape Town World Music Festival (CWM Festival) has begun in the face of a call to boycott the festival. The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) has released a statement saying "We have recently learned that the Cape Town World Music Festival  has crossed and violated the internatio...

Thanks: TedX Cape Town

Dear Ed, “In a Divided City, Many Blacks See Echoes of White Superiority” article published March 22, 2012 refers. One can certainly answer Polgreens' question in the affirmative: “Does this nation’s celebrated rainbow end where the mountain meets the sea?” Yes, as the experience with the Robbie...

Jared Sacks says City of Cape Town wrong to try and ban the protest City of Cape Town trying to ban poor people from the commons For months, communities from all over Cape Town have been planning a three day People's Land, Housing and Jobs Summit at one of Cape Town's huge open pieces […]

Yesterday I picketed the Russel Tribunal on Palestine. Before you hit the refresh button in your rush to disassociate yourself from dissent, (in an editorial, the liberal Cape Times opined:  "turning the tribunal into an object of scorn and hatred, as has been done by some of its more vociferous...

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