David Robert Lewis

David Robert Lewis (born 1968) is a South African editor, writer and artist.

In addition to various roles as an anti-apartheid activist, author, and visual artist, David Robert Lewis is a community journalist with experience working for struggle newspapers such as South, New Nation and Grassroots. His relationships with communities covered by these papers are long and intimate and he has had the honour of working for editors as diverse as Sandile Dikeni, Zwelake Sisulu, and Heather Robertson

Early life

He was born in the City of George, in the Cape Province and educated at Camps Bay High School. During the transition he joined the Congress of South African Writers and began publishing a small fanzine dedicated to the country's counterculture, "Kagenna", named after the mantis god of the !Kung San, and the Jewish Hell Gehenna. It was one of the first periodicals to cross the dividing line separating South Africa's race groups under the system known as apartheid.

Later he wrote about Radical Green issues for "South" newspaper, one of South Africa's alternative newspapers, and "Grassroots", a community newspaper; where he championed ideas such as sustainable development, permaculture and Green politics. He was one of the first people in South Africa to link apartheid with the environment and later criticised sustainable development as a "mantra all too easily misused in the pursuit of profit".

Achievements

Some of his achievements including publishing, then banned Albie Sachs's "Do you have to be white to be green?", setting a landmark communications record for public videoconferencing, and starting an alternative art gallery in Cape Town, named Gallery Mau Mau.

His writing has appeared in "Vrye Weekblad", "Cape Times", "Thisday," "Sl Magazine", "Sub Urban Magazine", "Design Indaba" and "Cybervaseline". He currently lives in Woodstock, Cape Town.

elected Published Work

ADBUSTERS No 34 "In this recent South African campaign, a Namibian Himba woman's breasts are blown sideways by the "new, more powerful" Landrover Freelander, photograph and caption pg 38

BIG ISSUE Soap Box - David Lewis on the Land Rover ad that caused all the trouble 1 page pg10

BIG ISSUE Kwaito Star Crucified, pg 28

BIG ISSUE Media Soup Columns 2001:

Media Soup "Bangalory Brats"

Media Soup "Captured by Illusion

Media Soup Gift of the Gab

Media Soup "Thought Police"

Media Soup Censorship Top Ten

BIOSPHERE July 2002 Put planet earth on the agenda pg 3

CAPE TIMES December 14, 2001, A magician of pure form - Newson lives in a world of his own construction 1/2 page

CAPE TIMES Top of the Times November 23-2001 Shuttling Cape Town - Reality's horizons extended, Front Cover; We don't have to do it for real, Cape Town movie makes reality out of art. 1/2 page, pg 3.

CAPE TIMES December 3, 2001 Revolution lives on in new arts club - Cape Town's underground past revisted

CAPE TIMES September 25, 2001 A Mancunian club media blitz - the manchester experience

CAPE TIMES BOOKS Case of Electronic Estrangement

CAPE TIMES BOOKS July 20, 2001 Delightfully winsome moments in fantasy epic

CAPE TIMES BOOKS April 12, 2001, Sensual read explores our olfactory nature. pg 10

CAPE TIMES BOOKS Experiencing the ecstacy of youthful love in cyberspace pg 10

CAPE TIMES BOOKS When virtual reality reaches into the world, it can be cause for alarm pg 10

CAPE TIMES BOOKS January 12, 2001 An old intrigue which sounds like modern money mischief pg 10

CAPE TIMES October 19, 2000, HIV research's new horizon, unravelling a golden braid, Op-Ed Insight piece, 1/2 page pg 11

CAPE TIMES Top of the Times November 12, 1999, Radio's New wave - tuning into the global village, pg 15

CAPE TIMES August 11, 1999, "Fake" diamonds to hit city streets - traders warned, front page, Bogus Gems pg 3 CAPE TIMES Top of the Times, November 16, 2001, Sitenghi - All that talk and the point was missed pg 12

CAPE TIMES ARTS December 2000, Findings in the middle of nowhere

CAPE TIMES ARTS August 14, 2001, Reaping an inner-city photo harvest

CAPE TIMES INSIGHT August 31, 2000, Trashing fallen idols has become a national diversion, is cheating in sport really a crime? 1/2 page pg 11

CAPE TIMES Top of the Times, Playing with the manifold offshoots of latter-day architecture - Japanese exhibition shows prevalence of information technology in design.

CAPE TIMES Arts & Entertainment October 10, 2000, The fringe has become mainstream, wake-up and smell the roses

CAPE TIMES Top of the Times, June 23, 2000, Cult of the Scooter (front page) Viva la Vespa - that classic fusion of functionality, tradition and art pg 3

CAPE TIMES Top of the Times, August 20, 1999, The subtle ways of the east take root - cuisine, furniture, fashion, philosophy - a cultural tide is lapping our shores, pg 16 CAPE TIMES Top of the Times, August 6, 1999, On the guru trail - spiritual wealth needs to be unlocked as we head towards the new millennium, pg 16

CAPE TIMES Top of the Times, September 24, 1999, Plugged in to the global village - a bizarre confusion of brands constantly flood the market pg 16

CAPE TIMES Top of the Times,June 25 1999, Spilling Sheik Makassars cup of tea (Front page), Storm in teacup over rooibos the old-folks cure all, pg 15

CASET Educational Trust & Kagenna - What about Ecology, live radio-format interviews with Ursula Eid (Green Party), Mike Kantey (ANC/Earthlife Africa) and Nosey Pieterse (Food and Allied Workers Union)

DESIGN INDABA magazine 3rd Quarter 2002, ReConstruction pg 18

EDGING WEST April/May 1995, High Desert Rave 4 pages 20-23.

EDGING WEST April/May 1995 Busted 1/2 page pg 23.

NEW GROUND Autumn 1993, Number 11 Marketing the Future pg 29.

NIGHT LIFE August 1996 Interviewing the madiba droid pg4, PANOS Restoring the Land - Environment and change in post-apartheid South Africa, "Urban Politics and Energy Options pp124-130.

SL MAGAZINE January 2000 The world according to Icke - while interviewing well-known conspiracy theorist, david lewis has an out of body experience 2 pages

SL MAGAZINE Mu'te May 1998, An art less ordinary - the controversy surrounding digital artist Dana Barak, pg 124, 125

SL MAGAZINE December/January 1997, Sand in my modem pg

SOUTH Southside Environment, November 14, 1991, Everything's connected man - that's really deep. pg 14

SOUTH Southside Technology, October 31, 1991, A criminal? Me...? Never! (Computer piracy)

SOUTH Brave step forward for Cosaw (Nadine Gordimer, newly elected publicity secretary of Cosaw) pg 12

SOUTH Southbooks Revolutionary new working patterns

SOUTH Post-psychotic hoot from Artvark , preview of cabaret Blanc de Noir, pg 21

SOUTH Southbooks Bedonnard poet casts her spell (Heather Robertson)

SOUTH EcoAction June 20, 1991, No limits to city's open smog season, pg 13 & 15

SOUTH EcoAction June 20, 1991, Conflicts that ravage the earth pg 16,

SOUTH Southside Environment, A pril 11-17 1991 Demands for electricity and threat of global warming

SOUTH Southside Environment, March 7-13 1991, Ending the apartheid of the environment , pg19. SOUTH Southside Environment February 7, 1991, Linking in to ancient wisdom Sue Hart Interview pg 19

SOUTH Southside Environment February 7, 1991, Outlaws of the Earth - putting the earth above people is what guides militant eco-activist group Earth First. pg 19

SOUTH September 20, 1990, Environmental cost of apartheid, pg 15 SOUTH November 15, 1990, How green is NP or ANC pg 10

SUB-URBAN MAGAZINE 2003, Cyborg Insanity (Limited Edition CD 200)

THISDAY REVIEW ARTS Weekend TV October 17, 2003, Weakest link, Weakest kink - viewers embracing of flagellation evokes memories of apartheid-era newsreaders. pg 7

THISDAY REVIEW ARTS Weekend TV October 31, 2003, Where illusions are more than reality - some of us are not satisfied to merely munch nicknaks in front of the poison box pg 7 THISDAY COUCH CRITIC Review of Crossing over with John Edwards

VRYE WEEKBLAD April 3, 1992, Why you should invade another planet 1992 guide to a new age of discovery, pg 27