I really love the quaint civil society assertion that they will somehow be able to defeat this most vulgar attack on our freedom of speech and constitutional dispensation being perpetrated at present by the ANC, both in their roles as the party of government and supposedly the party of freedom.
Talking to friends, whether they […]
Filed under: Commentary, Cosatu, Decision Theory, Democratic Alliance, Economy, Government, Ideas, Journalism, Language, Law, Media Freedom, Politics by Andrew la Grange
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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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South Africa has a political problem. It is the problem which many plural societies face – the one in which the majority lives a life of poverty and yet continue to return a small elite to power in mostly free and fair elections, resulting in a breakdown in democracy as the government no longer needs […]
Filed under: Commentary, Democratic Alliance, Government, Ideas, Liberalism, Philosophy, Politics 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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The African National Congress’ (ANC) constant framing of South African political life in terms of race, quotas and segmentation of the population into groups is a natural extension of the black nationalism that increasingly overtakes the many forms of political expression that once found a home within the broad church of struggle politics.
The ruling […]
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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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It speaks to the banality of Western civilization, that to those who once claimed to a noble aspiration for the second highest position in the free world, a bullet (or melanoma’s, in her case) breath away from being the leader of the free world – the correct course of action is to quit her public […]
Filed under: Government, Ideas, Media, Sarah Palin by Andrew la Grange
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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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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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What can I say… http://academicearth.org/
The site aggregates some of the amazing web video resources of lectures from the best universities and institutes in the world.
Who can imagine the technology and human endeavours that will be sparked by sharing such a wealth of experience and knowledge freely with anyone with the internet. A truly […]
Filed under: Education, Ideas, Internet by Andrew la Grange
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Everyone is running around like a headless chicken in the US at the moment about the Recession/Depression that the country is facing.
The government is printing money at a truly impressive rate, making Robert Mugabe look like a fiscal conservative. With all the TRILLIONS of dollars being pumped out by Treasury and the Fed, the […]
Filed under: Business, Dollar, Economy, Finance, Government, Ideas, Irony, Philosophy by Andrew la Grange
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