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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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=nw20080626114212346C109992
Helen Zille wants to debate Jacob Zuma in a public debate, a-la U.S. elections.
I don’t think she is going to get her wish, Zuma, and the ANC sees debate outside the ANC as anathema. To debate outside the party is to acknowledge that ideas of value can exist outside of the party, and that […]
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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 […]
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I’m going to have quick blog about something not political (in fact I’m going to try and avoid politics for a while, because my head is beginning to explode with anger/rage/fear/frustration). I’ll just say that moral governments should invade Zimbabwe to end the humanitarian crisis, Jacob Zuma should be prohibited from becoming president (not necessarily […]
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Language is a powerful tool.
Across our country, so-called leaders are calling there followers to kill if Zuma is not elected president, and his case of corruption quashed.
Is this any different to the barbarism currently taking place in Zimbabwe?
I feel so angry, so filled with rage when I hear words of hate such as […]
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I’m depressed about the state of my country. Let me rattle off some names:
Zuma
Hlope
Malema
Selebi
Mbeki
Mugabe
Pikoli
Mpofu
I could probably speak for hours on each of these men and the scandals embroiled around them. But it would be a waste of my time and intellect: apathy is rife in my mind, because I know that as as a […]
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I haven’t blogged in a while. I needed a break, and I had to avoid freaking out about Hlope, Zimbabwe, the Million (Thousand?) Man March, and the otherwise seemingly endless tide of bad news leaving our society at present: even the economy is going down the drain (although now maybe I can afford a home […]
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One can’t really say if Justice John Hlope, Cape Judge President, is a corrupt official (YET!). The allegations around him seem to suggest so - particularly since these allegations have come from members of the highest court in the land, the constitutional court.
But what can be said with certainty, especially considering Hlope’s association with […]
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