SOWETO … “where you usually get slapped if you act like a clown …” Thankfully there weren’t any bozos running around and nobody got slapped…
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(I wrote this and posted it on my Facebook page a week or so ago. It was something of a cathartic excercise to make myself…
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s claim that foreign intervention to impose regime change in Zimbabwe would occasion another Iraq is patently wrong. The finance minister, who…
I know quite a few people in my age group — early thirties — who remember, very vividly, a TV show called Under the Mountain.…
When Madiba finally crossed the Rubicon and started us on the road to a multiracial democracy, the overwhelming majority of South Africans rejoiced. Some 13…
I’m suffering from a severe case of Manto exhaustion over here. Seldom has the media circus managed to get under my skin as much as…
The selection committee for the Amablogoblogo team is now in session. We are using the following rigorous three-stage procedure to choose the shapers and shakers…
The treatment of Iraqis at Jordan’s Queen Alia Airport triggered a storm in the Middle Eastern blogosphere. What at first seemed to be a straightforward…
Render what is partially Caeser’s unto Caeser, albeit that he never actually met a force multiplier. A few weeks ago Sky News took an in-depth…
A hot topic of debate on the first day of the Africa Media Leadership Conference in Cape Town yesterday was the role the SABC plays…