News/Politics

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s talk at Columbia University was a wonderful comedy show. But while his reception at Columbia is one thing, the respect the United Nations accords him is quite another.

This piece of politically-correct tripe was South Africa’s contribution to a UN waffle-fest on climate change recently: Women and children are particularly vulnerable to the devastating effects of climate change….

I get many emails from satisfied readers and from readers who think I’m a nitwit. One reader of the Silwane Files sent me this email: Hi Ndumiso, I thoroughly enjoyed your blogs from when you were blogging on Amagama. I have noticed that since you started blogging on Thought Leader, you have been on a […]

Much hot air is being let off in the media in the United Kingdom today, September 20, about the gauntlet thrown down by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Portugal, organiser of the European Union-African Union summit scheduled for December 2007. If Portugal, who has the EU leadership for the next few months, invites Robert Mugabe […]

If there ever were a case for pre-publication editing (not censorship), it would be the series of articles that have appeared on ANC Today called A Fundamental Revolutionary Lesson: The Enemy Manoeuvres But It Remains the Enemy. It is not that I disagree with the arguments being made; it is that I am not sure […]

The ANC needs to cleanse itself like the ocean. If it does not do that, then the rest of us and our dreams are doomed. The bloodletting in this movement that carries the aspirations of the African people in our country needs to come to an end so that the delivery of key basic services […]

I read with interest a few posts on the local blogosphere about how South Africans whinge and whine about the crime rate, so I became curious whether this is true on the local blogosphere. I did some digging into the statistical data I have on Amatomu.com and found the following that only 0,3% of the […]

When I was down at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday I asked around to see which “movies” they were showing. Turns out that in court 11 they had a drama that unfortunately had been remanded until today. Yadhana Jadoo, the South African Press Association “critic”, had written this news item on the matter. State of […]

The so-called Browse Mole Report presumably provided all the head honchos of the ANC with worried bedtime reading, and for all of us yet another twist in the succession politics. Another worry for the leadership is that a seditious poem has been written, which reads as follows: What future is there for the young? What […]

Condoleezza Rice has “apologised” for the civilians killed by the American mercenary force known as Blackwater USA. She was trying to prevent the expulsion of all the Blackwater employees from Iraq, as has already been ordered by the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The Iraqi government decision followed an incident two days ago when Blackwater operatives — […]