Bianca Warburton - may she rest in peace
BIANCA WARBURTON Bianca Warburton was completing her Masters in Educational Psychology at Wits University. She was nearing the end of her internship at Ububele. She had just written her Board exam. She was shot and killed outside Alex Clinic on Wednesday 14th October. It may have been a hi-jack attempt. The gunmen ran away and nothing was taken. Bianca died instantly. She was found by another intern traveling behind her. She was killed in the course of her work as she had been driving from Gordon Primary School, past Alex Clinic to do a radio slot on Alex FM that morning. She would then have returned to Ububele to participate in an Access Course group to think ab

Professor Guy Burger spoke to Jeremy Maggs E TV News tonight.
“…if you take the service delivery protests, in a way that’s saying we’re not getting information here, we don’t have a platform, we don’t understand all this kind of high folutin’ stuff that’s going on in the mainstream media and so we’ll speak in a way we know people will listen, we’ll burn things but if we actually had more local media then people could actually use it and that media was also keeping track of local government and holding local government accountable, then I think we wouldn’t have all these explosions.” Professor Guy Burger; head of journalism and media studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, So

A music academy for Alexandra Township, South Africa
I’m opening a media center in Alexandra Township in the coming weeks. We’re training three women and three men in citizen journalism and emerging technologies. It is the first time in history the world’s poorest, marginalized and exploited will have access to a global voice. Khulu Radebe is on our board of trustees and on the council of elders in Alexandra. Khulu is a retired MK (ANC military wing) soldier at the highest level. While in exile during Apartheid Khulu; a jazz drummer, played in New York and Geneva. He played with some of the best jazz musicians of the day. Khulu is not happy with the level of jazz coming out of South Africa and would love to open a

Update on our progress
Hello all, I thought it was time to share an update on our progress. First though, thank you all for joining me online. There are thousands of you and I all over the globe who want a better world. It is with your support and participation that Hillside Digital Trust will have an enormous impact on the lives of thousands in the poorest parts of the world. Hillside Digital uses digital video, the Internet and emerging technologies to empower citizen action in impoverished communities. In 2002 the World Bank asked 60 000 people living on less than a dollar a day from around the world to identify the single greatest hurdle to their advancement. Above even food, shelter or