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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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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It seems we, the people of South Africa, lack an emotion. We lack it to such a degree that the absence of it in our hearts is distilled and purified in the halls of our nations power, the Union Buildings, the Parliament, the party National Committee and the halls of academia. We lack shame. We […]
Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Corruption, Crime, Decision Theory, Diplomacy, Government, Ideas, Obama, Politics, Zimbabwe, Zuma, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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Gordon Brown sent the message yesterday that he knew how to handle an economic crisis - despite having an economy that is dwarfed by the U.S. economy, the UK government put together a bailout worth over 500 billion pounds. All over a take out curry - now that is impressive stuff!
Couple that with an […]
Filed under: Business, Commentary, Corruption, Decision Theory, Economy, Government, Ideas, Law, Politics, Society, ethics, work by Andrew la Grange
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PK will no doubt fight with me on this, but I think I might just have called it (probably my best one since I said the West should be concerned about Arab Extremism , on MFM 92.6 on the 10th of September 2001) regarding the next President (Has Motlanthe used Zuma as a Sleeper? : […]
Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Corruption, Decision Theory, Diplomacy, Language, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Zuma 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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Friday was a blow to anyone who wants South Africa to be a powerful and healthy democracy. Not because the courts found on Zuma’s behalf on a technicality, but that so many of his sycophants seem to think that Justice Nicholson’s ruling was a vindication of their man.
The fact is that the man who was […]
Filed under: Africa, Corruption, Crime, Ideas, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Society, Zuma, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20080911141538545C746132
I should choose my words wisely. Because Sbu Ngobeni is quoted today by Independent Newspapers, as saying he will “shoot and kill” Jonathan Shapiro, who Mr. Ngobeni says “deserved to rot in hell” for Sunday’s cartoon indicating Jacob Zuma was being assisted by the Alliance to rape the justice system.
Do we now live in […]
Filed under: Commentary, Corruption, Economy, Ideas, Language, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Society, War, Zuma, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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In a democracy, all figures are equal before the law. But some of a citizens rights are removed because of their actions. Most notable of course are the rights of criminals. We all agree, as a society, that sometimes the the rights of the individual are balanced against the rights of society and are […]
Filed under: Comedy, Commentary, Corruption, Language, Law, Politics, Rant, Society, Zuma, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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South Africa’s children need to have better educations. They need the resources and good teaching that can forge young people into contributors to society, and those who can excel on the world stage.
What should not happen is using children as fodder for political protest and gain. Whilst some might cite 1976 as an example […]
Filed under: Corruption, Education, Ideas, Language, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Society, Zuma, ethics 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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I’m an African youth. I might be white. I might not support the ANC (or the DA or the rest of the incompetent left overs from all divides of Apartheid politics). And I suppose in the world of a struggle ‘veteran’ (yeah: like the 18 year old ‘veterans’ of the Zimbabwean civil war that happened […]
Filed under: Commentary, Corruption, Crime, Ideas, Language, Politics, Rant, Society, Zuma, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=792739
Can you believe it?
Thabo Mbeki must be the Neville Chamberline to Mugabe’s Hitler (although Mugabe isn’t evil enough yet to earn such a moniker; despite his ’stach!)
I am truly ashamed of our President. He has shown himself, in his handling of the Zim Crisis, to be the sort of person who makes George Bush […]
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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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