South Africa’s stand-off with Starlink is more than a licensing dispute. It belongs to a far larger global story of the growing power of multinational tech giants, the deepening concentration of wealth,
Introduction After experiences of systemic oppression of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and apartheid this is a perennial question for Africa: What is Africa to the world? It might seem straightforward. Worse still, it is
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni Of all the Cape Town City mayors I have lived under, I have a soft spot for Geordin Hill-Lewis. That is why I was so deeply disappointed when, in a
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By Mphuthumi Ntabeni The only book I have ever read by the winner of 2025 Nobel Prize fpin Literature, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, is Chasing Homer. Krasznahorkai is known as literature’s master of dread
The suspension of The Jimmy Kimmel Show in the United States has been greeted by some as overdue accountability and by others as the latest blow against freedom of expression. For those inclined