Last night I was watching The History Channel, and there were two very interesting shows back to back. First one which looked at the shootouts of the Iraq conflict, as the coalition fights the insurgency, and conducts essentially a series of deadly and brutal SWAT police actions around Iraq. This was followed by a documentary […]
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I’ve just read Sandile Memela’s article on ThoughtLeader, and what can I say about it?
It made me sick. It upset me. It reminds me why we need a change of government in this country. When a spokesman of our government, an employee of the government to which I pay taxes, and therefore a civil […]
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Michael Trapido explores something which has been swirling around my head for the past couple of months: the need for a left-leaning labour based counter balance to the right fiscal conservatives who have failed the masses over the last 14 years.
Socially and financially I lie right of the center; but I also think that […]
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The Problem
South Africa is a nation under siege. It is a nation where the people walk down the street in fear, and hide in their dwellings at night. Their sons are murdered, daughters, mothers, babies raped. Men weep as their lives are crushed under cruel and violent fists.
Our country has become a country of injustice […]
Filed under: Crime, Ideas, Language, Philosophy, Society, ethics 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 […]
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The New Yorker has just published an article about a man in 1999 who spent 41 hours in an elevator:
That is some pretty scary stuff… I think I’m going to take the stairs in my block of flats from now on!
It makes you wonder what you’d do.
I see he slept a lot. […]
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The Obama/Clinton machine rolls onto a much sought pugilistic moment, the April 22 Primary in Pennsylvania.
Could Clinton have ever imagined having to fight this hard, so late in the race for the Democratic candidacy? She thought she was a lock, and would have it all wrapped up by Super Tuesday if not before.
Could Obama have […]
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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’ve started blogging on a (new to me) blog, along with other collaborators around the world called “worldwide opinions“.
I’ll continue to blog here, in fact all my stories on worldwide opinions, will start on this blog, be posted, and then re-edited for a global audience (i.e. explaining terms like MDC, NPA, ANC, etc.). […]
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A final word on David Bullard, who has gotten a boost on my respect-O-meter after his apology in today’s Business Day.
He apologised for hurting people’s feelings, about the fact that his words could be understood in a hurtful way.
And I think it shows a great amount of maturity in the man. Firstly for […]
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We live in a world of democratised mass media, where anyone with an internet connection, even if just over a mobile phone, CAN access a large global audience.
But the operative world is WILL they? The sad answer is… probably not.
The same market forces which make little newsletters printed on LaserJet’s unsuccessful versus the […]
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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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We live in a supposedly free and equal society. Arguments of personal freedom and choice pervade the interest in gay marriage, and the removal of legislating social norms on society as a whole.
If we take the principle, that marriage is simply a contract between people for mutual benefit, and therefore the gender requirements of […]
Filed under: Commentary, Gender, Ideas, Language, Law, Philosophy, Religion, Society, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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Everyone deserve’s a little bit of free advertising, no more than Cell C. So let me say as a satisfied customer I’m pretty pscyh’d that the company finally turned a profit in Q1/2008.
Why? Because if companies like Cell C who avoid hype like 3G and spending millions running illegal lotteries and spending even […]
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Jacob Zuma, and his supporters, in their broad sweeping populism are making a lot of the right noises about crime. While defending the right to life, for the first time in a long time, Zuma has reminded South Africans that when citizens attempt to take away that right from others then they must be punished, […]
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