A platform for dialogue; healthy, heated debate and a mouthpiece for expression. These three characteristics are becoming more necessary, and desired, by the youth of our day. The Rainbow Babies have found their set of chords and are putting them to good use.
A generation of cognisant, civil-minded activists has emerged from post-Apartheid South Africa. Calling [...]
SA’s YouTube generation making their mark
From Facebook to failed democracy — our second issue goes live
The second “issue” of The Soapbox has now been posted. Hot off the presses we have a treatise on the dangers liberalism poses to democracy, a look at how Facebook friend requests are accepted regardless of whether you know the person, and an exploration of the approaches to sociocultural diversity from a contributor in Canada.
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Cultural diversity: mosaic or melting pot?
Sarah Laurence explores the debate around Canada’s approaches to immigration and cultural diversity. She argues that while South Africa’s diversity problems might seem newer and rawer, complicated by other social problems, it’s not the only country wrestling with the challenges that sociocultural diversity presents.
The mystery of the Facebook friend request
Letting people you don’t know into your online life can be potentially dangerous, says Stephanie Venter. Why then, she wonders, are so many people suckers for Facebook friend requests from dodgy people — especially when most people are aware of the dangers of such a phenomenon?
Liberalism as a threat to democracy
UCT student Graham Robert Pote argues that society has become less and less concerned with Liberty, Freedom and Fraternity and overly concerned with only the sense of “I”. Will this, he asks, ultimately lead to the failure of liberal democracy altogether?
Welcome to The Soapbox – your place to speak out!
Today is Freedom Day. It’s fifteen years since South Africa became a democracy, and we’re launching today in celebration of this. But furthermore, we chose Freedom Day because of the importance that free speech has in ensuring that our democracy continues, and flourishes in the years to come. Stimulating, supporting and fighting for free speech [...]
Just another worldview
The Senegal-based Sacha explores the role blogging is playing in providing platforms for grass roots reporting and how the medium is enabling Africans to speak out.
Let’s discuss something new in sports… Drugs?
Danny Matthews looks at the role drugs play in sport – and how sometimes the authorities are only exacerbating the problem.
A tale of two countries
A South African doctor compares the approach South Africa and Canada has in the way they treat their public servants.
