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Submitted by James Tobias Put aside your political agendas and concern yourselves purely on a humanitarian level for a moment. Driving my kids to college on Monday morning, I heard that our local town hall had been transformed into a place of safety for immigrants who were fleeing from an inexplicable onslaught on their possessions, […]

Submitted by Chris Waldburger This month, South Africa ached for a leader. South Africa’s shoulder rubbed raw against the wheel of destiny; there was nobody to stand as a midwife for her so that she could bear the hopes and dreams of a continent. She shook with the fever of fear, hatred and criminal opportunism […]

On Wednesday this week, the City of Cape Town gave the final approval to launch its groundbreaking municipal Broadband Infrastructure Project. Over the next two years, the City of Cape Town will invest close to R300-million in creating a state-of-the-art, fibre-optic network that will not only reduce the city’s telecommunications costs over time, but also […]

Sepp Blatter’s latest initiative — to introduce a law whereby clubs must field a quota of at least 6 home grown players has received Fifa’s backing at it’s annual congress in Sydney. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/30/1 This one has also been endorsed by UEFA president Michel Platini, which means that despite the uproar from European clubs, this may […]

In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit.(it.jhu.edu/glossary/mno.html) This is a less-confusing name for what is also called ‘free software’. It describes the development method used for many pieces of software, including the Linux kernel, where the source […]

I really feel sorry for Mugabe. I mean what is the point of telling your wife something if she’s only going to blab it to the whole world? Yes I know Bob I’ve got the same problem with ‘the government’ (Mrs Traps). You tell them something, swear them to secrecy and they then go and […]

If you don’t know what WordPress is yet, just take a look around at the Tech Leader platform and see WordPress in full swing. Tech Leader runs on the wordpress multi-user platform, one of the topics covered(by Ashley Shaw) at the WordPress event I had the pleasure of planning for last night. Close on 40 […]

While reading Henry Giroux’s book, Against the New Authoritarianism (2005), I recalled Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), a riveting narrative of a post-nuclear war regression to a supposedly biblically founded Republic of Gilead in what is now the United States of America. This futuristic dystopia is hierarchically structured and ruthlessly authoritarian, with women and […]

Dear President Bush, What with all your known knowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns, we’re sure you’re absolutely overrun about now. We were however wondering if you could kindly email South Africa a copy of our president’s recent letter to you, apparently asking you to stay out of Africa, which he claims belongs to him. […]

My first break in journalism was given to me by Rob Hardie, one of the editors of the Derby Evening Telegraph (DET) in England. The newspaper covers the city of Derby and surrounds and is at the forefront of anything to do with Derby County Football Club (The team that won two league titles under […]

When John Allan, the former Scottish and Springbok hooker, a group of our contemporaries and I got the idea of putting together an organisation which would use former rugby players to promote the amateur game and charities, we dared to dream of it’s future success. Vital at it’s inception was the understanding, by all involved, […]