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By Loammi Wolf On July 6 2011 the Cabinet issued a statement in which an amendment of the Judges’ Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act 2001 has been announced. The envisaged amendment Bill has been published on July 7 and is currently open to public comment. In terms of the Cabinet statement, the Bill seeks […]

By Suren Pillay Growing up in the Cape, we were taught that we were “Western”. How do we explain and undo this colonial sensibility? From my location at a university, there are two realisations from which to proceed. Firstly, the history of knowledge production, and the history of the organisation of knowledge — the ways […]

By Mike Mathabela A day before the recent local government elections, a racial incident occurred that almost derailed my resolve to, for the first time, vote for the DA. I was almost run down by a burly white male who proceeded to hurl demeaning expletives including the K-word at me after I had run to […]

By Hannine Drake Sanef called it bribery. The DA called it a gross abuse of power. Zapiro called it a metaphor (sort of). The already beleaguered media received yet another blow recently when Cabinet in true Machiavellian fashion approved the centralisation of the spending of its estimated R1 billion yearly advertising budget under the Government Communication […]

By George Karasaridis Last week’s political events in Greece could be described in two words, high drama, or if you prefer soap opera. Living in Greece today, it’s clear that our country is experiencing historic yet challenging times. Pressure is part of a modern lifestyle; if we could tap and package the stuff we could […]