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While email spam is very annoying, it has unfortunately become something that most of us live with. SMS spam on the other hand, while less pervasive than email spam, is often a very different matter, thanks to how attached we have become to our cellphones, many of us having them close by 24 hours a […]

Professor Pierre de Vos, undoubtedly one of South Africa’s leading academics on constitutional law, says that it would be constitutionally impermissible to ban a song such as the “shoot the boer” one outright on the basis that it constitutes hate speech. The professor looks at Sections 10 and 12 of the Equality and Prevention of […]

By Cobus Fourie I am your average corporate weasel. There, I said it. I confess. I am neither a rabid libertarian nor an unthinking progressive. Cosatu will not burn me at the stake along with my hypothetical Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand collections and neither will I get honorary life-membership by extolling the virtues of […]

Can Twitter save our planet? Will Facebook free mankind from the twilight of collective stupidity, religious fanaticism and crazed dictatorships? Is WikiLeaks the fulfilment of the ancient prophecy contained in Johan 8:32? In short: is the internet the next step in the evolution of human consciousness? This isn’t just idle speculation. Many people are starting […]

Tiaan Liebenberg, the fiery and popular Stormers hooker, has been ruled out for the rest of the season due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament muscle, which is one of four muscles that connect the bones of the knee joint. It will mean nine months on the sidelines, and cause Allister Coetzee a headache at […]

There’s six days to go until the 2011 Cell C Tour of South Africa (February 19-26). I’ll be accompanying the race and will post daily updates here. The South African cycling community is looking forward to what is going to be a fantastic event. It will get broadcasted to various countries across the world and […]

Back in the 60s, the smokers were the mainstream. They were the ones who strutted their puff, sucked everyone in with their smoky charm, and made friends with their nicotine sticks. While the anti-smoking lobby were considered the lunatic fringe, a bunch of commies, hippies, ninnies and stuck-up grannies. They were definitely not the norm. […]

It is possible to place the incipient revolution in Egypt in a wider historical and philosophical framework — one that is very illuminating regarding its potential for liberation as well as renewed oppression. The conceptual framework I am thinking of here is that of “modernity as crisis” — a notion encountered in different guises and […]

Bafana Bafana managed to beat a weak Kenyan side by two goals to nil, but their performance was far from convincing. The team should have destroyed the hapless Kenyans, who looked out of sorts throughout the game. Like in most games Bafana have played so far, they managed to control the game and enjoy a […]

Mamelodi Sundowns will go into their much-anticipated clash against Orlando Pirates on Saturday night hoping to reclaim the top spot. But Pirates will definitely try to protect their unbeaten run — more than 10 matches — to keep the number-one spot. This is going to be a tough battle. Sundowns-Pirates clashes never disappoint and this […]

Isolated applications give no hint of massive legwork and explosive potential The emergence of location-based services (LBS) on mobile phones is a much more important development than currently seems to be the case. While novelty applications like Foursquare are the cause of some user excitement, they tend to obscure the explosive potential in this market. […]

Upon surfing the net this afternoon, I see that Safa are headed in the direction of a name change, among other things, for Bafana Bafana. Well, it’s about damn time isn’t it? Safa, which is the one sports body in South Africa that will always be in the headlines for screw-ups and double dealing and […]