This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: How would it help resolve the power crisis if ministers were fired?
2008
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Martyrs and reconciliation
Just over 14 years ago, at 5am on Monday January 17 1994, my mother was rudely woken by loud banging on the door of her tiny one-bedroom flat. She got out of bed, opened the door and was shoved aside as four policemen with R1 rifles stormed in and ransacked her home without giving her […]
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Innovative sites: Original, inventive, ingenious
Here are my top three favourite inventive websites: Springwise (www.springwise.com) “New business ideas for entrepreneurial minds” they say. Only it’s so much more … Springwise has a team of 8 000 springspotters all over the world who submit interesting businesses they’ve seen at work in fields as diverse as Eco & Sustainability, Fashion, Life Hacks, Non-Profit […]
Posted inLifestyle, News/Politics
Rest in peace, Sheldon, and let us rage
One murder is one murder too many, said South Africa’s Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein, at Wednesday’s funeral of Sheldon Cohen, who was shot at Balfour Park in Johannesburg on Monday night. In the past year, three of my friends have been killed by criminals. That it is three murders too many is only the beginning […]
Posted inBusiness, News/Politics
Where’s the outrage?
South Africa has been plunged in darkness. Everyone except the idiots who caused the crisis says it will seriously damage the economy. Yet nobody has been fired. Not even a few token dismissals of powerless and innocent underlings.
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Rights, wrongs and regulation
It hurts to say this, but I agree with the health minister. Like her, I believe that something needs to be done to address private hospitals’ proposed tariff increases. But the problem, which the minister has yet to admit, is that she appears to have no express statutory power to act. Like the problem of […]
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ANC MP proposes legalising prostitution. The feelgood factor?
With ANC president Jacob Zuma confirming that the World Cup 2010 will go ahead despite the current energy crisis, I was delighted to read in the Sowetan that an ANC MP is proposing that sex workers be legalised. Please read the article; it’s short, but it’s a classic. For example, MP George Lekgetho told Parliament: […]
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Using Madiba
It was interesting to notice last week a few blogs on Thought Leader about Nelson Mandela, affectionately known as Madiba. I was hoping to respond to these blogs earlier, but blogging is not my full-time occupation and I just could not find the time to do so. I have always felt that many people use […]
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The collusion of bunny huggers and scientists against animals
Disclaimer: No animals were harmed during the writing of this blog. Also, the author of this blog has no beef (no pun) with scientists or bunny huggers. In fact, some of his best friends are bunny-hugging scientists. Did you see the story about the weird rodents that scientists have discovered that are immune to pain? […]
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These blacks
These blacks. Sometimes I feel sorry for them. But mostly, I’m actually just tired of whites always being called racists just because we point out that things are screwed and the country is going down the toilet. We’re going to end up like Zimbabwe. And so what if Helen Zille or Tony Leon are white? […]
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Some black and white truths
It’s hard not to feel a little bashed around on Thought Leader these days. Bashed by black guys calling white guys racist, white guys calling white guys racist and every now and then just being blind-sided for daring to ask people not to be cruel to animals. When you can twist cruelty to animals in […]
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Divided we stand
As a socially conscious, free-thinking African with a will to do good and a keen interest in technology, I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about the issue commonly called the digital divide. Simply put, it connotes the perceived difference between technology haves and have-nots. The haves are thought to be in a […]