As I watch the electoral process unfold in SA from China I feel proud of my country. My heart jolted as I wrote the words, “my country”. The elections are being done peacefully, democratically. My heart was warmed by the sight in the Mail & Guardian of a picture of an IEC official helping a […]
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Do we need the biggest Cabinet in the world?
Can someone explain to me why South Africa needs 31 Cabinet ministers? According to The Times, Jacob Zuma is planning to enlarge the Cabinet from 28 to 31, plus 19 deputy ministers. That would make South Africa’s Cabinet, as far as I could ascertain, the largest in the world. The UK has 22 cabinet ministers; […]
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South Africans: Pledging a new social contract
Martin Luther King Junior, in one of his most powerful sermons ever — the one delivered at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Christmas Eve of 1967 — stated the obvious but critical that “we must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are all going to perish together as fools”. The […]
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‘Don’t call me a kaffir’
Recently, about five-thirty in the afternoon when everybody was stuck in traffic, 5FM exposed its listeners to the following lyrics: Kom hier, kaffir, kom hier! Hoekom het jy nie my kar skoongemaak nie…Bliksem! (white male). Baas, don’t call me a kaffir (black male). Don’t call me a kaffir (choir). Thereafter the word “kaffir” is repeated […]
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ANC Youth League declares war on cocks
(This post first appeared on tonylankester.com) Sometimes writing a blog entry is hard work. Occasionally, though, someone gives you material — an idea, a reference or image to work from — that is so rich, so ripe with possibility it makes you want to hurl yourself at the feet of the giver, weeping with gratitude. […]
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One day, under President Malema, will we fondly remember the good old Zuma days?
Anyone who is a politician in South Africa; everyone who wants our vote today: you’re a desperately sorry bunch, every one of you. You are, to a man and woman, failing us, the voters of South Africa. From the ANC and Cope to the DA, the ID, the little lads in ANCYL and pretty much […]
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So what are YOUR narrow interests in these elections?
My wife and I were driving in Garsfontein in the general Tshwane area this past weekend when we spotted a guy in a blue Audi S3 Sport with Jacob Zuma’s grinning mugshot and the words, “Vote ANC” emblazoned on the driver’s side door panel. The first thing that struck me about this is that it […]
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Zuma, Mpshe not off the hook yet
The decision by the acting National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Mokotedi Mpshe, to drop criminal charges against Jacob Zuma, as many commentators and legal experts have said, has no legal basis whatsoever. It is a decision motivated by political considerations and appears induced under duress or undue pressure. Mpshe failed to convince the nation […]
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DA by-election victories interrogated
Submitted by Marius Redelinghuys Nobody can deny the DA’s landslide — overwhelming — by-election victories in Cape Town’s 2nd and 79th wards. The by-election results indicated a 96.34% showing of support for the DA in ward 2 and 79.38% in ward 79. Moreover, one cannot deny that these by-election victories are marked improvements on the […]
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Will an inept SA Rugby result in catastrophe?
While many local rugby fans, players, supporters and administrators are preoccupied with the poor SA Super 14 form; are going through the motions of the Vodacom Cup; thinking about the British & Irish Lions tour starting the end of May and preparing a team for the Currie Cup in July, a more sinister and monumental […]
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What to do with that damned race card now?
Ever since Madiba passed the reins of power to the ineffectual intellectual, the dominion of the African National Congress has been marked — and marred — by its incomprehensible fetish with the “race card”. This silliness was trotted out with monotonous tedium every time they were at a loss for a reasonable or logical response […]
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Buffering the economic meltdown using web 2.0
Submitted by Kate Elphick Even the most removed business from the global market is starting to feel the bite of the global economic meltdown. This year is going to be a challenging year for many South African businesses. Most companies are looking at what they can do to make the best of the current economic […]