When last were you, when addressing a problem with your printer or shiny new Apple junk-Mac, patched through to a call-centre in Alexandra? Numerous of those dreaded service-related calls have resulted in me being patched through to scripted Indians, incomprehensible Filipinos, and angry Glaswegians, but never to a cheerful...
read moreWhile driving along a busy road an advert sponsored by LeadSA caught my attention. It read “Do the right thing, Don’t bribe a police officer” or some such. LeadSA is an obscure initiative by Primedia and Independent Newspapers which apparently supports good deeds done by South Africans – in a sort of lead by example sense....
read moreLet us assume, as many do, that freedom of information is good for its own sake. We have a right to know about information related to public governance. Pragmatically, we could argue that transparency in government reduces corruption, ensures fair and just distribution of government budget and makes public figures accountable for...
read moreGareth Cliff has taken it upon himself to lead the new white intellectual revolution. I am unsure of whether this is because he is the most (perhaps only) articulate person on popular radio, or merely because he sommer rates himself. Regardless, this is a problem. It is not a problem that somebody with very little to say attempts to...
read moreWrite. Right. The difference in spelling is arbitrary, for the words, to many, mean the same thing. The Gods of Democracy and All Things Rational have bestowed upon us the inalienable right to information about everything deemed public and secrecy about everything deemed private. Yet when Wikileaks recently published top secret...
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