The Sunday Tribune has up to 50 standing ANC members of Parliament set to quit the party, Beeld speaks in terms of thousands leaving, while City Press claims that most of the senior people behind the splinter group have been told to stay in place until summoned by the new party. Mosiuoa Lekota confirmed this […]
2008
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I don’t like bitching but …
I don’t like bitching, but (so sure, here’s the but) if Bruce Cohen in his blog, A nightmare called Nedbank, thinks his banking issues were hell — and they were — try China. We’re in the Stone Age here. Might as well stick your precious shells under a rock in your cave. Huh? Readers might […]
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Motlanthe must be Mugabe’s bad cop
While former president Thabo Mbeki has always made allowances for Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, things may well take a dramatic turn for the worse for the old man when the South African delegation arrives in Swaziland on Monday. President Kgalema Motlanthe leads a local delegation and will be joined by two other members of the […]
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Esperanto ankoraŭ vivas kaj viglas … Huh?
Imagine if you could communicate clearly and easily with people no matter which country in the world you were visiting. Imagine if everybody was on an equal footing when it came to expressing their ideas and opinions. Imagine if language was something that united all of humanity instead of a hurdle we had to cross […]
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The Springbok: To be, or not to be? The solution is simple
The furious and passionate debate of whether to cull the Springbok, or not, has had one reading nearly every single one of the articles for and against the existence of the Springbok. It has been exhausting, but most of all it has been painful to observe how South Africans have turned on each other and […]
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Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF playing Russian Roulette
Any negotiator worth his salt will tell you that when you have a man in a corner always make sure that you leave him with a back door from which he can escape. If you fail to provide that you leave him only one option ie to come straight for you with all guns blazing. […]
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Boerewors and chopsticks: interviews with the Chinese (Janet)
When I write about China, I prefer to keep the topics at a grass-roots level. This is the first in a series of interviews with Chinese people in Shanghai. The first is my 26-year-old Chinese teacher and friend, Wei Qian, English name Janet. Her parents, from Sichuan province, grew up in the Cultural Revolution and […]
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On Mahatma Gandhi, his pathetic racism and advancement of segregation of black people
The greatest injustice against the struggle for liberation of black people was the projection of Mahatma Gandhi as committed to a cause against segregation. It is a fallacy that Gandhi in his struggles had any interests of black people at heart. His was a selfish cause to advance interests of Indians while encouraging continuing subjugation […]
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Can you count to a trillion?
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. — Charles Mackay in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one — […]
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Hollywood has moved to Wall Street
Watching financial and news TV channels this morning, it is incredible to note another change in the slant of the newscasts. It’s an ongoing changing scene and would be really entertaining to observe if it weren’t about such a bad situation. During the past months the media has been reporting that the USA and UK […]
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Political intolerance anywhere is a threat to social tolerance everywhere!
Nelson Mandela in 1993 rendered an impassionate eulogy on the occasion of bidding a final farewell to Oliver Tambo and confining his mortal remains to the common home of us all. Mandela at that poignant moment said: “A great giant who strode the globe like a colossus has fallen. A mind whose thoughts have opened […]
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The power of the Springbok
It causes horror and frustration to be sitting on the sidelines watching the drama and dilemma around the Springbok emblem, especially after watching on TV the Springbok Saga series, which gave me goosebumps and made me proud to be a South African, knowing that we won world cups in 1995 and 2007 — a 50% […]