Dear Mamphela Ramphele, Congratulations on a courageous first step forward with the formation of Agang (Build South Africa). Reclaiming the dream of a better life for all South Africans is an important political project, and I dare say there is no political formation in the country to date, which...

South Africa will miss the 2015 deadline to convert its analogue broadcasting signal to digital, according to a report in Sunday’s Rapport newspaper. The delay will mean that analogue television will use up bandwidth which is necessary for faster Internet. The International Telecommunication Unio...

WHAT fun to find that Cape Times columnist Tony Weaver is now referring to me as a “blogger and raver“. In a 11 February riposte tackling the hate speech allegations made by Nosey Pieterse and the striking farmworkers, Weaver admits to having completed his military service under the apartheid reg...

PureMadi, a nonprofit University of Virginia organization, has invented a simple ceramic water purification tablet. Called MadiDrop, the tablet — developed and extensively tested at U.Va. — is impregnated with silver or copper nanoparticles. It can repeatedly disinfect water for up to six months...

Controversial article by Peter Beinart published in the Daily Beast claims there is no significant Reform movement in South Africa, that all South Africa's Jews are Zionists:- "South Africa is America on steroids. It’s even more sports-obsessed. It’s even more violent. Its state-sponsored racism...

Dear Ed, “If the Jews disappear, so do we” 29/1/2013 refers I wish to commend those in South Africa's Muslim community who have chosen to commemorate an event which has particular resonance for Jews, both within and without our borders. We must never forget that communists, gypsies, homosexuals,...