The strike is suspended. The government and COSATU both claim victory. The ANC cheers on government, and the unevenly applied principal of ‘no work-no pay’. Some provinces and departments are capable of docking pay, others are not. Equality under the law se voet.
Now that the fraternal squabble between the ANC and COSATU using the […]
Filed under: Commentary, Cosatu, Democratic Alliance, Labour, Politics, Society by Andrew la Grange
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As originally written for Feint and Margin:
It’s been a spicy few weeks for media freedom in South Africa. From the arrest of Wa Afrika, to the hearings on the Protection of Information Bill, as well as the Media Appeals Tribunal being supported by all manner of cadres – it cannot be said that there hasn’t […]
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South Africa’s freedom to know what those, who we have entrusted with the powers of the State (namely the ANC) are doing, with our common property, is under siege. The ANC, which should be simply a caretaker of the government, has misunderstood its place in relation to the state, and the role it should play […]
Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Corruption, Government, Ideas, Journalism, Liberalism, Media, Media Freedom, Politics, Rant, Society by Andrew la Grange
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Not to prejudge matters, because he may in fact be guilty of an offence, but Sunday Times’ journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika has been arrested by a gang of cops at the Avusa offices.
Whilst the charges are apparently related to a fraudulent document in his alleged possession, it doesn’t take a genius to see a possible […]
Filed under: Bheki Cele, Corruption, Crime, Journalism, Media, Media Freedom, Policing, Politics, Society by Andrew la Grange
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A few weeks ago I was having a quiet evening with friends, drinking some coffee and talking politics. I was asked what I thought of the toilet saga. Besides the horrible situation for the people on the ground which is beyond question – I thought from a political angle the Democratic Alliance through Dan Plato, […]
Filed under: Commentary, Democratic Alliance, Government, Ideas, Politics, Society, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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Well known HIV and political activist Zackie Achmat explored yesterday his feelings about the Democratic Alliance congress yesterday on the Centre for Law and Social Justice blog, Writing Rights.
There is much I disagree with in Mr. Achmat’s analysis of the DA, it’s politics, it’s internal workings and philosophies as well as its true agenda. […]
Filed under: Cape Town, Commentary, Democratic Alliance, Ideas, Liberalism, Politics, Reconciliation, Society by Andrew la Grange
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So besides a few attempts at looting, etc, the large scale rumoured ‘uhuru’ of foreign Africans living in South Africa did not commence today.
The security apparatus of the country is in full flight in swatting the few incidences were the rightly named criminals hiding under the cloak of ‘xenophobia’ are attempting to put a […]
Filed under: Crime, Government, Policing, Society, World Cup by Andrew la Grange
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Can you guess that I wrote the title of this post before Bafana’s 3-0 drubbing by Uruguay? While the result was disappointing, I have to say that I remain very proud of our boys. Few countries with a national team that is going through a rough patch like ours, have had to suffer the indignity […]
Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Corruption, Economy, Government, Ideas, Malema, Philosophy, Politics, Reconciliation, Society, World Cup, Zuma by Andrew la Grange
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In 1856 a young Xhosa girl made a prophecy. That prophecy resulted in the famine and destruction of a great people. By encouraging the Xhosa people to destroy their crops and livestock she set her entire people back for decades. Over 25 000 died from starvation. Hundreds of thousands of head of cattle were killed. […]
Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Government, History, Ideas, Malema, Politics, Society, Zimbabwe, Zuma by Andrew la Grange
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I’ve been out of Cape Town since mid-January, spending a few weeks in one of the world’s true Capital cities – London.
I’m so conflicted when I am in the London. It is such an incredible melting pot, a morass of people and cultures, languages and behaviours. And yet despite its many different people it […]
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Increasingly I am making links between the ANC of today, and the NP of the past. In the coming weeks I am going to be writing a series of articles on the present nature of the ANC and how the transformation of South Africa since Freedom has mirrored the transformation of the ANC.
The core […]
Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Decision Theory, Government, Ideas, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Reconciliation, Society by Andrew la Grange
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Jacob Zuma’s first speech to the parliament on his election as State President, has the blogeratti bubbling along, full of hope that Zuma will walk the walk, as he has talked the talk quite well since the mandate was handed to the ANC, and thus him in the April elections.
Let me be honest, I […]
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South Africa is a country recently liberated from the yoke of Apartheid, but as the years drift away, and the end of the Zuma presidency, assuming the ANC kick him out before hand, will see a half way point between the time (48 years) of National Party rule, and ANC rule, South Africans are slowly […]
Filed under: Government, Ideas, Politics, Society, Zuma by Andrew la Grange
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We are a back water technologically – and lots of the fanboys and technical South Africans might like to decry that its simply because of the high cost of limited internet access in South Africa.
This morning I got into work at 6am to find that SAIX, the main backbone of internet in the entire […]
Filed under: Ideas, Rant, Society, Web by Andrew la Grange
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Both men hail from Chicago. One is a world famous celebrity, wielding dominion over hoardes of fans. The other is Kanye West.
Check Barack during his student day’s doing a pretty good Kanye impression. The real question is, how prescient is Kanye West - to channel Barack Obama’s youthful ghost before the pics were released: […]
Filed under: Ideas, Irony, Media, Obama, Politics, Society, U.S. Elections by Andrew la Grange
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