Zackie Achmat, director of Ndifuna Ukwazi, has sent an access to information request to the South African Police Service asking for documents related to an IT project that has not been completed.
Edirin Okoloko
News | 5 June 2013
Open Data is possibly the big change waiting to happen. It is not only going to change our interaction with the world, but also define new ideas and solutions to problems for us.
Jonathan Dockney
Opinion | 5 June 2013
‘Are you a boy or a girl?’ ‘Go outside and play with other boys and throw that doll away. Who bought it?’ My father shouts at me as he finds me playing with the cheap fashion doll which I secretly brought with my lunch money after months of saving.
Luckyboy Mkhondwane
Opinion | 5 June 2013
A recent analysis of over 12 000 research papers shows that the overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that climate change is influenced by human activity.
Kerry Gordon
News | 5 June 2013
“Confusion hath made his masterpiece.” That quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth seems perfectly to sum up the statements, comments, reports and machinations surrounding the Cosatu executive committee meeting last week.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 5 June 2013
A mural has been unveiled in Khayelitsha to highlight the need for the state and communities to improve their response to violence against women.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 5 June 2013
The offices of a community newspaper were burned to the ground in October 1985. It was situated opposite the Grand Parade and next to Cape Town’s historic City Hall. A few weeks earlier three of the newspaper’s employees were taken into detention by apartheid security police who swooped on their homes in the dead of night, armed to the teeth.
Mansoor Jaffer
News | 5 June 2013
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