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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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 […]
Filed under: Africa, Cape Town, Commentary, Ideas, Rant, Society 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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Common Craft is a pretty cool company. They make complex things understandable to the common man. So I could help but laugh when I hit there web page today, and splashed across the front in bright red was a Drupal error that only a SQL-Talker (there is a good reason for SQL being a […]
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Luke Watson, and his father, are controversial figures in South African rugby, a sport which is plagued with racist and intra white (i.e. English Vs. Afrikaans) destructive attitudes. But it is also a great bridge builder, as the Great reconciler, Nelson Mandela showed brilliantly in 1995.
South Africans, of all races, are proud of South […]
Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Ideas, Language, Politics, Rant, Society, Sport, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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No doubt everyone is dropping a coil over the failure of the ‘bailout’ from the U.S. congress to calm world markets. Incredibly people are learning the downside of a globalised economy - big brother in the form of the United States can’t bail out the entire world due to structural shortcomings.
Of course this is all […]
Filed under: Business, Commentary, Decision Theory, Economy, Government, Law, Rant, Society, ethics, work by Andrew la Grange
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When we are young, our parents tell us to take responsibility for our actions. To not blame others for our missteps and failures if they are the product of our own limitations and mistakes. You need to learn from your mistakes. Or at least parents should tell their children that. Its character building, and leads […]
Filed under: Commentary, Decision Theory, Economy, Government, Ideas, Politics, Rant, Society, U.S. Elections, ethics 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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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 […]
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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 […]
Filed under: Commentary, Corruption, Diplomacy, Politics, Rant, Society by Andrew la Grange
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