THREE decades of online communication, and an ongoing electronic struggle and yet our country South Africa, is desperately lagging behind the West when it comes to the dissemination of knowledge and information technology. Compounding this problem is neo-colonialism, hegemony, the 'loudhailer on...

DEAR older generation. You were wrong about apartheid, you were wrong about same-sex marriage, and you were wrong about dagga. When the Western Cape High Court affirmed the rights of all citizens to the use and cultivation of dagga in the privacy of our own homes, thus suspending the drug laws fo...

THIS YEAR marks 30 years since the banning of the 'Towards the People’s Culture' festival by the Botha government in 1986, with a festival event appropriately titled Marking the '86 People's Culture Festival The original festival was meant to gather prominent artists in a collective response to t...

DO YOU remember when the internet still spread hope? After its invention in the‘80s, we had access to a mass of information, sites such as Napster allowed us to share so-called “private property” easily and, most importantly, we could publish what we had to say ourselves – and people actually lis...