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 […]
Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Liberalism, Media, Media Freedom, Politics, Society 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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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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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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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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Sian and I were at the SANG (South African National Gallery for those who never did Art at high school) this weekend, getting a good dose of culture, after walking around in the Gardens.
I’ll keep my rant on why museums and galleries funded by taxpayers money should be open to the public for free for […]
Filed under: Africa, Art, Cape Town, Commentary, Corruption, Design, Education, Media, Society, Zuma by Andrew la Grange
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YeboYethu, Vodacom’s payoff (well only 3.44%: bribes come cheap these days) to BEE, shows just how cheap it has become to pay off white guilt in South Africa (even for a company that likes to give all its employees kids Lego, and take everyone out to the Velodrome for a command performance from Westlife, as […]
Filed under: Africa, BEE, Commentary, Corruption, Economy, Ideas, Media, Politics, Rant, Society, Zuma, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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We live in a very bite sized world. I’ve recently read Ted Neward’s blog post about experience versus knowledge. I warn you that Ted is a software guy, so get a developer to explain any parts of the posts you might not understand.
At the same time, I read a blog post by a MooTools […]
Filed under: Ideas, Language, Media, Rant by Andrew la Grange
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from: http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/?p=595
Zuma’s lawyers going for broke
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Pierre De Vos
E-TV will break a story in their one o clock bulletin today that suggests Mr Jacob Zuma and his lawyers will use any means necessary to keep him out of jail - even threaten the Constitutional Court. Will comment on it […]
Filed under: Corruption, Media, Politics, Society, Zuma by Andrew la Grange
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I’m going to have quick blog about something not political (in fact I’m going to try and avoid politics for a while, because my head is beginning to explode with anger/rage/fear/frustration). I’ll just say that moral governments should invade Zimbabwe to end the humanitarian crisis, Jacob Zuma should be prohibited from becoming president (not necessarily […]
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The greatest paper in the world puts it like it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/opinion/24sat1.html?hp
The shame of our country is the fault of its first citizen, Thabo Mbeki, a man who should have never held the office Nelson Mandela forged out of the ashes of Apartheid. And we, the people of South Africa, should blame ourselves for electing […]
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Time magazine has declare Barack Obama the winner of the Democratic race. Sort of…
Love the asterisk. I wonder if Time is behaving in a responsible manner by declaring that Obama will win the race.
Although Hillary is not out, the media (and it would seem the majority of voters [um… except in West […]
Filed under: Media, U.S. Elections by Andrew la Grange
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The FBJ, the black journalists organisation is South Africa, has been censured by our countries human rights organisation. I agree with this decision.
That isn’t to say that I agree with the white-dominated media, or the fact that white journalists continue to pander and deliver to a large extent, to the white business community; but […]
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Well today seems to be do or die for Hillary Clinton.
I think despite American Democrats hoping for a resolution of the whole battle for the Democratic ticket, today’s primaries won’t settle it.
I think Hillary is going to fight this to the bitterest of bitter ends; but despite all that, I believe, from the […]
Filed under: Commentary, Media, Politics, Rant, U.S. Elections by Andrew la Grange
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Google’s blog is highlighting today the importance of World Book Day and The Literacy Project.
Its shocking to think that 1 in 5 adults is illiterate. But as I reminded someone at a party on Saturday night, even if the WHOLE world was literate, a world without books is useless. And Google is doing good […]
Filed under: Art, Commentary, Education, Ideas, Language, Media, Philosophy by Andrew la Grange
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