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 […]
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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? : […]
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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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With arms at sea, it looks like the Zimbabwean government is going to step up the violence and intimidation to ensure that any form of run off election held in the country for the presidency will ensure the sort of land slide victory Robert Mugabe has come to expect.
With 10 opposition supports already murdered, […]
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I suppose you aren’t the organisation that overthrows an evil dictator for nothing: ZImbabwe’s opposition MDC (although many believe they should already be in power by now) have called for South African State President Thabo Mbeki to step down as mediator of the Zimbabwe Crisis. I couldn’t agree more, Mbeki has been ineffectual and criminally […]
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