As expected, ‘Telkom has dropped its threatened R5 million lawsuit against Hellkom.co.za with costs and without conditions, allowing the satirical site to continue its basting of the telecommunications giant’ reports ITWeb. The reasons given? ‘Strategic reasons’ according to a Telkom spokesman. More likely the victory by Laugh It Off case in the Constitutional Court […]

I’m very pleased to announce that Kerryn McKay has joined the team at Creative Commons South Africa. Kerryn is employed as a researcher on the Commons-sense project here at the Wits University Link Centre and now also volunteers for ccSA. Kerryn holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University (seeing a pattern here, anyone? […]

ICDL in Africa (International Computer Driving License) has offiically licensed their training material under the Creative Commons license.
The non-profit organisation, which was established in South Africa by the Computer Society of South Africa, has the objective to promote and administer the license in sub-saharan Africa. More than 4 million people worldwide, […]

If you’ve been listening to Yfm this week, this will be only the second time that you’re hearing it. ccMixter, the awesome music sharing software developed by Creative Commons in the US, has just been developed for South African musicians. The site is being launched on the back of a Yfm competition sponsored by the […]