Submitted by Kaizer Mohau I have for some time now been investigating the rationale behind the sudden outburst by the opposition and lunatic academic professors of the capitalist school of thinking regarding the integration of the Scorpions into the South African Police Service. To dissolve the Scorpions is a conference resolution taken by the ANC, […]
2008
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An American Tuesday
Today is a big day in American presidential politics, as partisan voters in 21 states choose their preferred candidates for their party’s presidential nomination. The Republicans are running the reactionary tweedles against the Neanderthal tweedles. In the race for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, meanwhile, it has been infuriating watching Hillary Clinton speechify […]
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Authors with a twist
I appreciate it when writers step out of their genre boxes and do something a little inventive and out of the ordinary. Here are a few of my favourite out-of-the-boxers: Tom Robbins. My first love in fiction, and the one who taught me that rules in writing aren’t really rules at all. Not even guidelines. […]
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Zuma, Nzimande clash … over media effects
Signs of division appeared in Jacob Zuma’s camp this week when the ANC president disagreed publicly with one of his staunchest supporters over media effects. While SACP leader Blade Nzimande accused City Press of sowing division and confusion within ANC ranks, Zuma has come to the conclusion that nobody much bothers about what they read […]
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God save us from these racists!
It is unbelievable that there are those that still view us blacks as kaffirs 14 years since the collapse of the apartheid regime; after what we thought was freedom. So optimistic about our non-racial future were we that Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya even wrote a piece in the Mail & Guardian saying he wished for his child […]
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How about some made-up Monday?
To ease us into a new week’s worth of work, here are a few of my favourite made-up words … schmoegel (n): a little bit Won’t you just cut me a schmoegel of that cake? nana (n): fool Good Lord (insert name here)! Must you always be such a nana in front of my colleagues? […]
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What readers really, truly want
Grumpy old media critic Jack Shafer has accused online news media of turning their sites into “virtual tabloids by peppering their home pages with the most sordid and bizarre stories that can be culled from the world’s news wires”. Shafer says website tabloids, such as CNN.com, MSNBC.com and Foxnews.com, celebrate and rely on stories that […]
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Drug trials — in the eye of the needle
Here are some snapshots from my days as a human guinea pig. Taking part in “medical research” had a less worrying aura to it in the mid-Nineties. It was before the horribly unlucky “elephant men” in the United Kingdom with their expanding faces, and it was something that many South Africans, New Zealanders and Australians […]
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Shaun Pollock, the man for all seasons; Hansie a King’s ransom of insanity
On June 1 2002, Hansie Cronje, the former South African cricket captain and the man whose life had been destroyed by the King commission into match-fixing, was killed in a plane crash in the Outeniqua Mountains. My brother kneels, so saith Kabir, To stone and brass in heathen wise, But in my brother’s voice I […]
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Shaun Pollock, the man for all seasons; Hansie a King’s ransom of insanity
On June 1 2002, Hansie Cronje, the former South African cricket captain and the man whose life had been destroyed by the King commission into match-fixing, was killed in a plane crash in the Outeniqua Mountains. My brother kneels, so saith Kabir, To stone and brass in heathen wise, But in my brother’s voice I […]
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Eskom’s sacrificial offering?
Has Eskom fired Ehud Matya? That is the claim made in a comment on my blog. The Eskom story, with all its myriad twists and turns and all its implications for economic policy and political accountability, has become thoroughly tiresome, but it just won’t die.
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Could this be the start of something big?
“Sorry” is in the air. “Sorry” is everywhere. And it’s come for you and me! Suddenly, in an unprecedented move, the normally offensive members of the ANC are apologising for their multitudinous mistakes left, right and centre. Bearing in mind this is contrary to every basic principle of its übermensch philosophy; of the African National […]