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David Robert Lewis
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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. 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 , 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, the 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. 
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