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 […]
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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, […]
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So besides a few attempts at looting, etc, the large scale rumoured ‘uhuru’ of foreign Africans living in South Africa did not commence today.
The security apparatus of the country is in full flight in swatting the few incidences were the rightly named criminals hiding under the cloak of ‘xenophobia’ are attempting to put a […]
Filed under: Crime, Government, Policing, Society, World Cup 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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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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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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In case you believe that the whole country is going to hell in a hand basket, and national enterprise is destined for absolute failure, think about the South African Post Office.
I can’t speak for its profitability, but then again the U.S. Mail is a loss leader for that country, and the UK’s service is […]
Filed under: Africa, Business, Economy, Government, Language 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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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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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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Last night I was telling a friend why I thought, on balance, Israel was justified in its actions in the Gaza strip, and that comparatively the death of 555 in 11 days of full on modern warfare, including several days of house to house street battles is a testament to the low casualties that the […]
Filed under: Commentary, Government, Ideas, Society, War, 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 […]
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