FMF Welcomes Changes To Hate Speech Bill, But Concerns Remain
The Free Market Foundation (FMF) has welcomed changes to the justice department’s Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate
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Reaction to President’s Keepers book shows the incompetence of the State Security Agency
South Africa is indeed a wonderful country to live in as hardly a day passes without some interesting news. Social
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Mahmood Mamdani and the Academic Freedom Lecture: Public Intellectualism Gone Wrong
On 22 August, the University of Cape Town’s 2017 T.B. Davie Memorial Lecture on Academic Freedom titled “Decolonising the Post-Colonial
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“Don’t Look for Evidence of Wrongdoing” – HuffPost Does it Again!
In the wake of HuffPost SA‘s company-shattering humiliation last month which forced its Editor in Chief to resign, the publication has shown
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Life, Liberty and Logging On?
In recent years the calls for governments around the world to declare and promulgate Internet access to a human or
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South Africans Must Stop The Hate Speech Bill
Written by: Olumayowa Okediran On 31 January 2017 the first opportunity for public comment on the Prevention and Combating of
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Sticks And Stones
Written by: Chad Lingard You may have noticed the growing trend in support of the new Prevention and Combating of Hate
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The Role and Importance of Alternative Media
Since the dawn of the Internet, alternative media has taken various shapes and forms. Academic definitions state that alternative media
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Put This On Your Fake News List And Smoke It
The fallout of the 2016 US presidential election has left many Democrats and progressives wondering what went wrong. Despite the
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South Africans need to re-focus
Earlier this year, I wrote an article called South Africa Blind-Sided. This article accused South Africans of allowing red herrings
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