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Wessel van Rensburg

Wessel van Rensburg

What the Islamic colonisation of Spain can teach South Africans

Soon after 9 / 11 the BBC ran a documentary on the great Islamic cultural heritage the south of Spain got from it’s long Moorish…

3 min readMar 25, 2017

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When six police tried to arrest Mcebo Dlamini (Updated)

I was reading a roundup of events round #Feesmustfall in the Mail & Guardian. It said that police had started the trouble at Wits on the…

12 min readOct 6, 2016

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The whitest whiteness

Hi Ash. I really like your, Aaron and James’s work at Novara Media and I try not to miss your shows. The last show on whiteness was no…

5 min readJul 27, 2015

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In defence of ‘selling yourself’

The consequences of ad free ‘premium’ social networks

5 min readMay 18, 2015

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In defence of ‘selling yourself’

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Statusnomics

Twitter’s ‘problem’ is not about signal versus noise

5 min readSep 4, 2014

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Statusnomics

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Wessel van Rensburg
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South African society & politics

Cowboys don’t cry

Journalists are hunting in packs trying to silence a South African politician

3 min readMar 12, 2014

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Cowboys don’t cry

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A public service social network won’t save us from total surveillance

This kind of surveillance not dependent on advertising

4 min readFeb 19, 2014

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A public service social network won’t save us from total surveillance

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South African society & politics

A digital rights body for South Africa?

Helping South Africans flourish in the digital age

3 min readFeb 11, 2014

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A digital rights body for South Africa?

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South African society & politics

Who is using Telkom to spy?

A South African computer connected to the Internet via Telkom is hosting software that’s designed to allow powerful secret spying.

5 min readSep 15, 2013

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Who is using Telkom to spy?

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Is Medium a platform for attention seekers & troll gazing?

Medium bucks a UX design trend which has important implications for what content will thrive on it

6 min readAug 26, 2013

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Is Medium a platform for attention seekers & troll gazing?

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Wessel van Rensburg

Wessel van Rensburg

My mind is digital but my heart in the southern bit of Africa, RAAK founder, media voyeur, blogger http://mhambi.com, tech fetishist, documentary maker.

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