Molefe mismanages news at SABC So, as I wrote in my last blog post that there maybe be more drama still to happen at the South African Broadcasting Corporations (SABC), I had no idea that things or rather the drama, would happen so quickly just less than I week after my blog post entry.
We first saw the SABC board losing hope in its chairman Ben Ngubane...
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Mokoetle receives support for his suspension to be... That the now suspended SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle has filed for his suspension to be disregarded is news, sadly. This, unfortunately, not only is it bad to governance malpractice at the SABC but so is to other state-owned enterprises, including Eskom, Telkom, PetroSA and South African Airways.
Mokoetle, appointed SABC...
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Interview with SA Press Council and Press Ombudsman
After media reports over the last couple of weeks suggesting that the ruling party African National Congress’s Media Appeals Tribunal (MAT) and the newly proposed Access to Information Act were a political means to threaten press and media freedom in the country – I then made the means, as a writer and blogger,...
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Is this the end of Zuma?
It is a hard job running a company as a leader or Chief Executive Office, just ask former South African Broadcasting Corporations CEO Dali Mpofu or South African Airways CEO Khaya Ngqula. It’s hard up there, just like it must be hard as president of a ruling party and a country at the same time. This is because there...
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My tjatjarag take on the nationwide strike
Yesterday more than one million public service workers embarked on a nationwide strike after wage negotiations between Congress of South African Trade Union and Department of Public Service and Administration failed on Tuesday.
That government would not be able to improve service delivery if it were to concede to...
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When news are hard to find and report, newspapers write... Being the reasonable person I think I am, there are so-called stories and news that are not newsworthy and just not worth reporting at all. Or as people would prefer: that are not in the public interest. Is this because there isn't much news to report and as a result we (news followers) are fed non-sense or there is more...
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News SA media will not report: Part 1 I have previously argued that there are incidents that take place around the world but less of which are reported here in South Africa by the South African media. Why is that so?
Even worryingly, you would be surprised just now news of a particular nature taking place in South Africa “gets quickly reported by overseas...
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Interview with Jackie Mapiloko Besides the ‘investigative journalist’ at Media24’s weekly City Press newspaper many have come to know her as – Jackie Mapiloko is also a daughter born about twenty-seven years ago, in Zone 2, Soweto in Johannesburg.
Jackie – who grew up loving interior design and still does – lived with her now late...
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Boys aged 12 to receive the ‘right size’ condoms Time flies, and so fast. We live in a time where our children, or those that we know, develop and grow at an alarming speed. And before you know it, mothers, aunts and sister will hear a young girl crying for she may be seeing something changing on her body that she totally does not understand.
I am saying this because...
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Dear Winnie Madikizela It is with sadness, unfortunately, that I have taken the task of writing this letter to and kinda addressing you in the manner that I am. Most importantly, however disrespectful this may seem, I did not see the need to address you as Madikizela-Mandela for you and Nelson Mandela are divorced already and I thought it appropriate...
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What ‘Zuma’ second term? There have been reports doing the rounds in South Africa, according to City Press, that president Jacob Zuma said he would not 'defy' his nomination for a second term. Why talk of a second term now? Isn't that still early for Zuma?
Understandably, this came after some party members were dissatisfied with his fathering...
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Prosecute Malema for 'hate speech'? The Freedom Front Plus has laid a hate speech complain against African National Congress MoPres. Julius ‘Juju’ Malema and even called for his prosecution.
This came after Juju allegedly said the boers (reference to white people) must be killed for they are rapists when he addressed students at the University of Johannesburg’s...
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Zuma on 'limits and balance' of Media Freedom It is always a pleasure for me to spend time with the media. Perhaps it is because there is a never a dull moment in my relationship with journalists, whether in South Africa or abroad. I seem to attract your attention no matter how hard I try to stay out of the spotlight!
I have been informed by the Minister that a...
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Why I love SA To foreigners – non-nationals as we have come to know them – living in South Africa is one of the best things that could ever happen as a family or an individual. This is because, unlike in China as Global Times reported, one is freely and democratically so within the constitutional boundary to criticise anyone, even...
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So, blacks are racist? Business Day newspaper reported of a ‘fan’ of African National Youth League President Julius ‘Juju’ Malema who wrote on Facebook that 'white' people were racists.
According to the report, the young man wrote:
“You f***ing white pigs. Malema is our leader. He will kill Zuma within six weeks. We will then take...
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Trust no one, not even a Pope or Priest! One was disappointed to read reports by New York Times and the Guardian newspapers that some (in fact, many) members of the Anglican Church priests are alleged to have molested “as many as 200 deaf boys”.
This, according to New York Times report, is despite “several American bishops repeatedly [warning] that failure...
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What if Winnie is right about Mandela? This is not a defence of Winnie in any way, but an effort of addressing an issue she ‘allegedly’ said and one which not many of us have thoroughly thought of and that we would feel a hell lot better not pondering on it, that: Mandela did sell us out.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an ex-wife to former president Nelson...
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Why are SA Youth organisations militantly violent? Youth in South Africa constitute the highest population and many of them are unemployed for a range of reasons some of which do not make sense at all and while others, unfortunately, it is of their own choices, or lack thereof.
There are youth organisations in the country many of whom, if not almost all, are linked and...
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The murder of Terre’blunch means… …, certifies and confirms the death of white people (and white farmers to be specific) as a 'National Crisis' and as superior, still, than that of black people (and farm workers to be specific).
And this is something South Africa, as country, has a long way of overcoming!
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AWB’s Visagie is ‘not done with you’? AWB general secretary André Visagie should be ashamed of himself for threatening people in their own territory.
According to Mail & Guardian Online, Visagie threatened Lebohang Pheko of eNews television that he was “not finished with [her]”.
This, allegedly, after Pheko asked him about “abuse of farm workers...
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ANC warns Juju for attacking journalist(s) FOR IMMEDIARE RELEASE ON SAPA WIRES STATEMENT ANC CONDEMNS UNTOWARD BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS JOURNALISTS
The ANC strongly condemns the behaviour of ANC Youth League President, cde Julius Malema, towards a BBC TV journalist, John Fisher, at yesterday (April, 07, 2010) ANC Youth League press briefing. The aggressive and insultive...
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Why I write 'politics and media' A friend of mine asked me today: “Why all ur pasting on FB r always political or media related? Interesting neh!”
And in a long message, I replied, starting with: "Well… where do I start?”
And I continued:
As my blog (Akanyang Africa: www.akanyanafrica.co.za) can tell, I follow political and media/journalism...
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HIV test results for Zuma & Motlanthe are… If a report by Mail & Guardian Online that president Jacob Zuma and his Deputy Kgalema Motlanthe will on the launch of the HIV counselling and testing campaign (HCT) this Sunday take blood tests are anything to go by – then that is the step in the right direction. Or at least for now.
Government spokesperson Themba...
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'Corrupt' Cosatu official resigns Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven has confirmed the resignation of Jan Mahlangu, COSATU's Retirement Fund Policy Co-ordinator. This comes after revelation by the Mail & Guardian newspaper yesterday that Mahlangu was given a ‘luxury car’ by the late founder of SA Quantum, Abe Nduru.
Mahlangu vehemently denied...
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City Press running low on ‘viewpoints & analysis’? “I may be not academically trained and a professional journalist or writer - but I think City Press "Viewpoint & Analysis" section offered none of that and instead offered a big 'fat' Chris Hani face followed by many other 'unnecessarily' big pictures on its 23pg. Where are the 'viewpoints & analysis' there?”...
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Will Fifa sue, again? I went to Pretoria over the weekend. On my way from visiting a friend, I came across a beautiful art by a well-known Mamelodi artist. Given its similar features to that of Fifa, will we see another copyright claim, or whatever they would have preferred to call it, for the poor businessman?
This is one...
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My home beer... I haven’t seen this is a long time until today.
Thank goodness that I was on leave at home, Seoding, at the time of seeing this. What is not good about this beer is the smell from people who have 'messed up' on themselve...
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Who should pay for pupils’ ‘Saturday classes’... Professor Jonathan Jansen, Rector of the University of Free State, wrote a brilliant article in the Times newspaper in which he advised for the Grade 10 “students to [be sent to] university before they finish high school”. And just who will pay?
This is one of the noble ideas thought by someone as senior from a...
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Shame on ‘bogus’ traditional surgeons Yesterday, and even today, I spoke to my father (Papa) regarding taking one of his grandchildren to the hospital for circumcision. Taking his children or grandchildren to traditional initiation schools has never been Papa’s norm. And he doesn’t intend changing that anytime soon, or never. This is because of the number...
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Crime cause ‘food security threat’ in SA AgriSA reported crimes against farmers to cost the agricultural industry hundreds of millions of rands. This was likely to lead to “food security [being] under threat”. Really?
Andre Botha, AgriSA rural safety policy committee chairman allegedly said in the report that ‘stock theft alone’ had cost the union...
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How to dump (or get dumped) by SMS In relationships there are ups and downs caused by disagreements which often lead to fighting. And in worst case scenarios, those involved tend to kill one another for a number of reasons only known to them. Others, however stupid, yet funny and strange, use Short Message Service (SMS) to end relationships instead of going...
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Cope can only hope and Cope in Sept. During its first conference or whatever people would like to call it, in 2008, people were excited that a ‘new kid on the block’ had arrived, then known as Shikota and later as Congress of the People. Expectations and tensions were running so high that democracy was really happening. This, sadly, was then, but now...
I,...
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Should journos keep notes and tape recordings? There are times when news reports are legally challenged long after the story was published. And with some journalists, negligently, having destroyed all (or some) notes taken and tapes recorded at the time of the research on the story – where do journalists and their publications houses turn to in defending themselves...
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Will Rugby and Soccer unite SA? For South Africa will be holding one of the most loved sporting events in the world in just less than two weeks, soccer, people believe that all of a sudden South Africans – a very racially divided nation – will be united. This did not happen when former state president Nelson Mandela took over as the first democratically...
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Why I quit Facebook For any, or most of, us – there are times in our lives when we feel like we have had enough, times when we think we may be going ‘over board’ just a little, and times where we really feel that somebody just has to do something before something bad or good happens.
For me, it was I doing something good for myself...
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Nando’s tell Malema to ‘kill’ Don’t worry. This time, it has nothing to do with killing the boers or even kaffirs, as black people were known during apartheid. Instead, this is the kind of killing committed daily without even realising it.
And if you thought Zapiro was the only cartoonist with a sense of humour South Africa has, or lack thereof...
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Foreign media misrepresenting (South) Africa is not... What is the one good African story in more than 10 years ago that has been covered by foreign media, except that of former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela? With him now away, it seems, everything good started and ended with him as far as foreign media coverage of Africa is concerned. Need Africans be worried?
Africa...
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SABC needs a leader now (not Mokoetle) [caption id="attachment_646" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Not quite the Leader the SABC needs?"][/caption]
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) CEO Solly Mokoetle was appointed by the notorious Minister of Communications Siphiwe Nyanda last year. Mokoetle was appointed in the hope of having what it...
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Avusa kicks editors to the top [caption id="attachment_655" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Unecessary Avusa's bureaucratic promotion?"][/caption]
Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya has been kicked to the top as Editor-in-chief of Avusa media newspapers, Avusa CEO Prakash Desai announced in March this year, 2010. Was this move necessary...
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Manyi’s “offer” gets him suspended A very vocal Director-general of Department of Labour and Black Management Forum (BMF) President Jimmy Manyi has been suspended (see also here). Manyi, who once argued that South African president Jacob Zuma and his presidency office are beyond criticism, was suspended Friday by his boss, Labour minister, Membathisi Mdladlana.
Although...
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UK tabloid newspapers coming to South Africa [caption id="attachment_678" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="UK tabloids in South Africa for World Cup"][/caption]
It is always a great honour when foreign publications see the need for their distribution in a foreign country whether on a temporary basis or indefinitely, and profit-driven or not.
Press Gazette...
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World Cup: Google can 'feel it'
I felt a sense of pride when I read a report that a South African youth was behind this magical icon that caught my eyes.
It’s reported that a 13 year-old ‘doodler’ Nikisha Lalloo from Port Elizabeth is the mastermind behind this icon. Besides her being a step away from a ‘global winner… [and] emerging as...
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Blow your Vuvuzela like you don't care What’s with the noise here and there about the South African Vuvuzelas? Surely every country has something – despite the dangerous and risk thereof – that it prides itself with or that which can be associated with it and when you take that way, you somehow take away its identity and pride. And doesn’t take apply...
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SA alive with 'Press Freedom' [caption id="attachment_816" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="SA Press Freedom Victory"][/caption]
Former State President Thabo Mbeki in his “own firm view” during the inauguration of the South African National Editors Forum in 1996 said that “Press Freedom in [South Africa] was not under threat.” Given...
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Farmer “with a white tendency” disrespects SA Courts Why on earth would a (reasonable?) person in his/her own right mind claiming to be a patriotic South African or of any nationality sue his fellow brother through an International Criminal Court and not first through Courts in his country? Is this where we are heading? What does this say about our national pride, if any,...
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SA cost to hosting World Cup
Is this what South Africa did – hiding and pushing away its own challenges under the carpet far away from the world’s eyes (to please the powers-that be, FIFA) – in hosting the great and huge sporting event such as the World Cup?
This is how cartoonist Zapiro, one who became infamous recently for saying...
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Did South Africa “sell its soul” to Fifa? [caption id="attachment_829" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="SA sold its soul to FIFA?"][/caption]
It is now well-known that South African government gave in to Fifa’s ludicrous demands to be the hosting nation for the World Cup tournament this year. However that does not give the body any right to go around...
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Fifa should run SA, maybe [caption id="attachment_841" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="With FIFA in town, less 'unruly and criminal' behaviour(s) and activities"][/caption]
South Africa is a beautiful country with a high rate of crime, according to a research by the South African Institute for Security Studies.
The study indicated...
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‘Ambush-marketing’ case dropped because it was... [caption id="attachment_864" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Why drop it [the case"]like it's not not?"][/caption]It is not clear whether the decision by the National Prosecuting Authority to drop the case of an 'ambush-marketing' campaign is because the case was winnable or not or that the charges were silly to...
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Why drop Vavi charges like they are HOT? The African National Congress has decided to drop the charges against Cosatu President Zwelinzima Vavi after criticising ANC President Jacob Zuma of failing to take action against some ministers accused of corruption. What could have led to this ‘drop’?
Could the dropping of the charges have something to do with...
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Don’t 'touch me on my' purse, Boss Imagine you have worked hard for the whole month, or a year for those who do, and when you have to earn the rewards for that hard work you find that someone somewhere kinda messed up your earnings for that month that you remain with far less than you had expected in your bank account after all the debits and payments have...
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Eskospender in town You can check on one of the most reliable dictionaries in the world and you won’t find a word like this, never. But if you check closely how Eskom spends its (or our) money then you are likely to call it Eskopender. And if the name suites, say it?
Yes, you have guessed it. Eskopender refers to the South African electric...
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What’s wrong with this picture? You may think there’s nothing wrong with it but the world’s most protective football federation of their brand, Fifa thinks there is. Why?
This picture has reportedly caused so much “trouble” in Port Elizabeth.
Chris van Heerden, owner of Guido's restaurant in Walmer, has decided not to fight against FIFA's...
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Let’s celebrate Mboweni’s success If dreams do come true, Tito Mboweni must be a happy (business) man now whose dreams have been fulfilled, wherever he may be. Mboweni, a former South African Reserve Bank governor, has seen three appointments in less than four months this year.
First, in February this year, it was his appointment as chairperson of the...
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Are World cup criminals receiving fair trial? Why is it that criminals who have committed Soccer World Cup-related criminal activities are/have been speedily arrested by the South African police officials than those who have committed other ‘normal’ criminal activities before? Is this another special treatment for the powers-that-be Fifa?
This is in reference...
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The ANC welcomes Selebi’s conviction The African National Congress spokesperson Jackson Mthembu released a statement welcoming the decision by the Court that found former Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi guilty of corruption.
Selebi, who was found guilty today, apparently faces “the prospect of spending 15 years in prison as the crime of corruption carries...
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When “evil is good and good is evil” One of the worrying and unfortunate events, if not situations, is when one is denounced and criticised for having done something good with enough good and validly legitimate reasons, and those whose actions are ‘seen’ as ungood and evil are left free without any criticism or denounced at all. Why?
This is reference...
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SA companies go world cup ticket-shopping spree
Why should we spend, especially government departments financed through taxation, so much money on world cup tickets instead of spending the millions, if not billions, on alleviating the high level of poverty South Africa? This is of course despite the 'painful and expensive cost' of hosting the tournament and the R3.3...
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Malema lives on ‘handouts’ In march this year African National Congress Youth League President Julius Malema told the Mail & Guardian newspaper that he’s “got no millions’ as he was no rich and instead, he lived on “handouts most of the time”. Really?
Here’s his interview with the newspaper.
In his political overview at the...
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Why fight ‘Political squabbles’ through the Courts ANC Youth League Deputy President Andile Lungisa said members of the league alleged to challenge the league President Julius Malema through the Court are ill-disciplined while Congress of the People (Cope) president Musioua Lekota on the other hand took his "vote of no confidence" as party president to Court.
Lungisa...
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Politicians and Muslims do not have “a sense of humour”? The recent outcry over former South African President Nelson Mandela’s autopsy painting reminds one of a cartoon by a controversial South African cartoonist Zapiro in which he allegedly depicted Prophet Muhammad with his shrink as saying “other prophets have followers with a sense of humour”.
Zapiro’s drawing...
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Goodbye United States of Fifa, Hello South Africa,... Many South Africa will agree that Fifa had indeed “called the shots on running South Africa better than any government has managed in half a century... and it was made easier for [it]”.
Leading up to the tournament there were talk of Plan B, something Fifa Boss Sepp Blatter has since dismissed as untrue, some media...
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Will New Age newspaper be a political newspaper? The apparent launch of a (political) newspaper linked to the ruling party, African National Congress, in September this year has left many people wondering if the South African media is getting concentrated or not.
Mail & Guardian newspaper reported in April this year of the “possibility of [the] launching (of)...
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I Love you Phillip who? Being the not-so-movie person I know I am, I (unfortunately?) had the opportunity to watch the I Love you Phillip Morris movie this Sunday.
When I first read the review on Mail & Guardian newspaper this weekend I thought someone was crazy. But of course that was until I got so bored on Sunday – not that I had nothing...
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A song for the Xenophobics Given the xenophobic attacks here in South Africa, I would recommend the lyrics of the Eyes of the Heart by India Arie to the perpetrators. Sing along and see if you’d still do the same thing thereafter.
Close your eyes
The physical can be so blind
In my eyes
The innocent can be so wise
It's not about black...
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Masoga deserved to be expelled from the ANYL As I have told many of my friends before or people I just know and interact with – I love politics as an observer for I cannot be dictated on what to do or not as a member of that particular party or what behaviour is expected of me. Well, of course, unfortunately, rules such as those are (only?) made for people who...
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The day Guardian called Zuma ‘corrupt’ and a ‘rapist’ South Africa is steeling itself for the most important election in the brief history of its democracy, taking place next month. With the euphoria of majority rule evaporating, will it go the dreary way towards formal one-party rule, or might it emerge as the one stable and truly constitutional big-state democracy in Africa?...
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Anglo Platinum splitting because of Nationalisation? One cannot help, but suspect that the now recent reports of Anglo Platinum being advised in splitting its South Africa assets into two has something, if not everything, to do with the country’s ruing party’s (Africa National Congress) youth movement ANC Youth League’s talk of nationalising the Platinum Mines.
Business...
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Why SAA board should be scrapped Of course one cannot help but wonder what is actually going on at the South African Airways. The former SAA CEO Khaya Ngqula was paid R935m last year to terminate his contract by the very same company that is now suing him. Why?
The payment, according to media reports, include his R3, 831-million salary and ‘termination...
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Time for Africa to serve World Bank and IMF divorce... By divorcing the International Monitory Fund and the World Bank, Africa’s productivity is likely to increase and therefore making the continent a “major player in the global economy”, suggests James Shikwati*.
Divorce Africa from the World Bank and IMF: Reflections on an Abusive Relationship
It is not “America”...
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Free and independent journalism under threat in Uganda As Uganda plans for general elections in 2011, freedom of expression across the country is in significant jeopardy, according to a Human Rights Watch study conducted from September 2009 to April 2010 and published in May.
On a superficial level, the report says, Ugandan media seems to enjoy considerable latitude, especially...
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Has foreign aid 'saved' Africa? As an African I still to date do not understand or even comprehend how Africa continues to be the 'second-large continent on the planet (after Asia) in both land and population - with more than 800 million people living in fifty-four countries' yet the continent remain led by South Africa, remain very rich with minerals.
Just...
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Are the Reitz Four REALLY Sorry? The words “I am Sorry” are apparently the hardest words for any human being to say, mention or read. This could the fact that sometimes, if not many a times, when people say these words they actually do not mean their true meaning and or when they say them they are only doing so “for Peace’s sake”, something I...
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When a women is fed up… …she doesn’t go and find killers for his husband, and for whatever reason(s) nogal – instead, she should sit the hubby down and discuss whatever her dissatisfactions or unhappiness may be.
A Sowetan newspaper report that Mulalo Sivhidzho “called her husband's killers to confirm [if] they had got him before...
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Young communists, its UFS’s prerogative, finish en... For how long will we continue to blame the poor performance of our students in the country on the Department of Education alone and not the students themselves too? Aren’t they, the students, the ones learning, if not failing to learn?
But of course one would have to also take into account the failure, too, on...
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Newspaper apologies are even more damaging and silly It is no wonder the African National Congress is stupidly calling for the (independent?) Media Tribunal which will dictate to newspaper what to publish and what not. It is clear, although not advisable, that political parties, especially the ruling ANC and its members have received bad coverage by both South African and...
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Will Oupa Selebi get Parole (like Shaik did) for he’s... Okay, the now good-cop-turned-bad, Jackie Selebi, was yesterday found guilty of corruption. And as if that was not enough, his political party, the African National Congress, has not distanced itself from him. Shame…
Honestly, if you ask me, Selebi should have known best. He was Police Commissioners for haven sake...
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SA Press Ombuds ‘useless’ and not working ANC Youth League released a statement in which it called the South African Press Council “useless”. The statement comes after the South African Press Council Chairman Raymond Louw said the call for a Media Tribunal was appalling (see also here).
Louw said the manner in which this call was made and the indications...
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Are 'indemnities' abused by SA police? Wikipedia describes indemnity as the right for an injured party to "shift the loss" onto the party responsible for the loss. In the South African contex – with former Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi and the “convicted drug-dealer” Glenn Agliotti in mind – one might describe indemnity as “giving amnesty to a...
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Why is the media misquoting Campbell? This is the kind of journalism one does not subscribe to let alone agree with. Misrepresentation, misquoting, you name it.
Surely by now you may now that I am a very great fan of press freedom. However, like the South African ruling African National Congress, it is sensationalism and misrepresentation kind of journalism...
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Who changes our change? We always wonder what changes the changes we change to change and this poetry tells and wonders why.
Who makes these changes?
I shoot an arrow right.
It lands left.
I ride after a deer and find myself
Chased by a hog.
I plot to get what I want
And end up in prison.
I dig pits to trap others
And...
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Open Letter to 'big brother' Media Tribunal It would take forever to explain how I came into being and doing what I am doing, blogging, that is.
Unlike journalists and columnists, I use blogging as a form of meditation. It keeps me insanely sane just as writing weekly or daily newspaper columns does to columnists and journalists who expose corruption both in the...
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Punitive measures for media negligence are needed,... I may be mistaken in some quarters as a paid-member of the ruling party, African National Congress, but I am not. That’s an assurance and a fact. In fact, I am not a member of any political party in South Africa as I have asserted here before because I wouldn’t like to be censored on what to write and say as is the...
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The strike season is with us and we have to bear the brunt of threats/attacks/our cities being thrashed.
This conduct was not manifest during the apartheid days. What an irony.
[...] example, last year during strike at Impala non-strikers were threatened and promised to be ’shamboked’ as they were accused to viewing those who were striking as “[di]phokophoko, known as [...]