Category: Culture
Lockdown cigarette ban violates social distancing
Did the lockdown cigarette ban prevent the sharing of cigarettes, or force people who never shared before, to do so now? Under lockdown level 4, a box of cigarettes cost over R100 (or R10 a…
We shall never eat at the table of the 1%
By David Jones September 2019 White and State Monopoly capital represent the 1%, and are allied to create confusion and division among the rest of society. There are a number of terms that are thrown…
We are all addicts
By David Jones – August 2019 The first thing you think of when you hear the word addict, is of drug addiction. Actually the word refers to a far broader range of social behavior than…
SONA 2019: Extinction Rebellion
February 7, 2019 SONA 2019: Extinction Rebellion Today, I joined an Extinction Rebellion demonstration in the Cape Town which took place in line with the 2019 state of the nation address by Cyril Ramaphosa. I…
Africa(‘s not had its) Day
Posted on June 3, 2018 by Africa Clockwise Just before the blog *finally* gets back to recounting our Africa Clockwise adventures on the east side, I would like to make a direct appeal to the…
Ethiopia Gets Its Teff Back
By Jerry Chifamba Cape Town — The Ethiopian government is celebrating a major victory in a long-running dispute over who owns the patent for products made from teff – an ancient grain that forms the…
In Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change
(The Conversation) Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening in an ocean that was once locked in ice. In Alaska, climate change isn’t…