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Coping with onine abuse in South Africa


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Online abuse and cyber bullying is becoming more and more prevalent. The rise of technology and how integral it is becoming part of our lives is indisputable. In South Africa we now have over 5.3 million Internet users and approximately 33 million cellphones users of which over 9 million are mobile Internet users. Think about …

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Addiction Action Campaign – People Before Profit Protest March


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This is may be the most important march we’ve had in South Africa since 1913 when Gandhi organized to protest the restrictions that had been imposed on the Indian population of South Africa — the first massive civil disobedience campaign. I am bringing into the AAC aspects of online addiction that includes Internet pornography, online …

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CSSA Event – The Dangers of Children Using the Internet and Other Technologies


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In a perfect world, the Internet would automatically shield children from contact with questionable content and dangerous people. Unfortunately, nobody exercises complete control over the online world in any centralized manner. What is considered illegal in one country may not even be considered an issue in another. This danger has been extended to free-for-all mobile …

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Democratic Alliance leads elections race in Internet performance


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An in-depth analysis of the Internet strategy of the main political parties in South Afrca’s 2009 general elections reveals that the Democratic Alliance has a substantial lead in online performance over its rivals. The African National Congress comes in a distant second, narrowly ahead of the Congress of the People. The United Democratic Movement and …

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Who's who in the non-white Web 2.0 South African Zoo


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This blog post was updated for some corrections in June 2012. Mandy de Waal, a freelance journalist, wrote this article on ITWeb, profiling top social media gurus in South Africa. When I first read it, I found offensive not because it’s inaccurate, rather because it is incomplete. The main reason I take issue with this …

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