Change we can believe in! It is the most compelling election theme to have captured the imagination of the entire world. As encapsulated by Barack Obama in his victory speech, “change has come to America”. Whilst we celebrate America’s and indeed the world’s most momentous occasion, we also mourn the floundering attempts to overcome the […]
2008
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Taking ownership of an American president
A talk show host on a Cape Town radio station was joking (Wednesday, November 5 2008) about how a coloured won the F1 title on Sunday and how another coloured won the US presidential election. I had never thought about it like this but I guess when somebody achieves something in life, everybody wants to […]
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2010 offers signs of hope on the crime front
In the dead of night, the Durban city centre is not for the faint-hearted. Like many CBDs around the world, criminals use the cover of darkness to operate and soft-targets – like tourists – are particularly vulnerable. But for one wonderful weekend a few months ago, the port city was one of the safest on […]
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Barack Obama puts the spotlight on the role of the so-called coloured in the black struggle
Barack Obama’s predictable triumph in the American presidential race, interestingly, sets up the role of the so-called coloured in the black struggle for critical examination. Of course, most blacks deny that there is intra-racism determined, largely, by complexion and class in black American society. Thus the political euphoria has misled the world to believing that […]
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Northern exposure
So after a great Currie Cup (always amazing to witness the transformation in the great cup when the Bokkies return) spirits are high in Bokland. And so too as — you’d expect — are expectations. After all, when it finally came together at the Fizzy Pop Dome, the Wallabies had no clue what hit them […]
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Obama: ‘Thank God Almighty, free at last’
“Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring — when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children — black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, […]
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Obama’s US is the new rainbow nation: Africa needs to learn
Change may have been a long time coming, but when it did – wow! Sometimes revolutions come with pain, sometimes with joy. From today this is a new world and we all have to change the way we think and what we do. The first decade or two of any millennium is a time of […]
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The Kleurling takes it!
Call me NastroSumo, but didn’t I mention in my piece called Making beautiful Coloureds Together that the future of the world lies, with the Tik somewhere in Mitchell’s Plain, in the Kleurlinge? thoughtleader.co.za/thesumo/2008/02/12/making-beautiful-coloureds-together/ Yes, yours truly, The Sumo, has predicted this current state of affairs being of mixed race is the very way to go, […]
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Australia’s response to the US election
Australia is a nation of Obama supporters. Like virtually every other country in the world, Australia was strongly pro-Obama in The Economist’s global electoral college. At 905 support for Obama, Australian support was even higher than that in South Africa, where Obama scored 89%. Interest in the US election was very high indeed in Australia, […]
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Televising the revolution: how ‘illiterate’ Jacob Zuma outshone educated Professor Barney Pityana
The live coverage of some of the great political events happening in the country will, inevitably, shape the future and influence choices people make. After all, television is a powerful medium that has the potential to influence people’s behaviour and attitude. Thus it was fascinating to watch the revolution being televised and observe the behaviour […]
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If only Barack Obama was a Republican
In 1964, three young civil rights workers were abducted by die-hard white supremacist rednecks in Mississippi and cold-bloodedly murdered. Their crime? Assisting blacks to register as voters. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner – one a black Mississippian and the other two Jewish human rights activists from New York – paid the ultimate price […]
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A black man wins the White House
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” – Martin Luther King, 1963 The election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States is indeed […]