David Robert Lewis
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David Robert Lewis (b. 1968) is a South African editor, writer and artist.
He was born in the small town 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".
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.
