By Sicelo Fayo Taking on the news media on any of its activities or beliefs is always a bad idea at the best of times. SA News Media in particular is highly sensitive to criticism, just or not! However, to the extent that News Media essentially not only informs (a fairly broad and subjective term) …
While we watch the battle of the giants unfolding for reduced mobile termination rates in South Africa, an even bigger thirst-that-cannot-be-quenched is for Internet data.[1] The people want more and more data. No one is yet able to respond to this demand convincingly. But perhaps jumping on the naming-and-shaming bandwagon between government, ICASA, and business …
In September, a famous South African rugby player, took a publisher to court for intending to release a biography of the player, with sordid details of his extra-marital affairs, drug binges, etc. This happens now at a time when there is public sympathy for the rugby player because of his terminal illness, a motor-neuron disease, …
In 1989 communism collapsed. We knew it was not sustainable. But the final demise was a moment for the West to say “we told you so”. Liberal democracy had gained a final win over Marxism-Leninism and moving with almost unquestionable consensus, the liberal democratic agenda was shoved down every country that was in the process …
Thokozani N. Mhlambi In previous entries, we have seen (1)[1] the detrimental effects of a constitutional culture: how a culture of upholding the constitution has offered our white compatriots a moral basis for undermining the continued relevance of the liberation struggle; and (2) that increasingly the black middle-class has mired itself into an already flawed …
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Thabo Mbeki (2006)