South Africa – Page 5

The age of digital slavery

The internet was touted as a pervasive digital playground of free space, free-thinking and an insatiable curiosity. It has developed from a wild frontier, where anything was possible, into a corporate collection of cubicles in which we all slave – to their benefit.

Booze, beaches and all those jabs

We had a short-notice presidential address on Monday which leaves us in post-holiday lockdown, featuring eased restrictions including a reduced curfew, the return of alcohol and a lifting of the beach ban – with news on the first vaccine arrivals.

Vaccines, not beach bans

There was a bit of a short notice “My fellow South Africans” on Monday. There was a great deal of speculation ahead of that 20:00 announcement – with much of it wrong, as usual. South Africans sure do love their gossip though.