The Republic of Cape Town? Don’t joke

This morning Gareth Cliff jokingly referred to “The Republic of Cape Town”, with its “President” Helen Zille. I decided to go a web search to find out who else viewed my home this way, and if perhaps there was some nascent separatist movement I didn’t know about.
In doing so I came across Zukiswa Wanner’s […]

Filed under: Cape Town, Politics, Society by Andrew la Grange
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Unacceptable Children’s Crusade

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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Persia to Paarl : My new favourite wine fest

FROM THE WINE BLOG:
From what I heard the Stellenbosch Wine Fest was a bit of a dog show this year, with far too many people due to tickets being sold long after a favourable amount of people were let in.
I can’t say for sure, I wasn’t there, deciding to give it a bit […]

Filed under: Society by Andrew la Grange
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Brief one on eating out Chinese Buffet style in Mowbray

From the FOOD BLOG:
I’ve been very bad, and not said much on this blog for a while. I’m going to do my very best to rectify the situation, and get blogging in a much bigger way about food.
I’ve still got lots of great photos and stories to upload about the box of goodies […]

Filed under: Commentary by Andrew la Grange
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YeboYethu aka How to not feel guilty being white and megarich in Africa

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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Health and pain in the 21st century

I’m in a lot of pain at the moment. One of the reasons I’ve seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet. I haven’t had a chance to check all my personal and work emails, which now stand with over 1000 unread mails (not because people love me, but because I have tonnes of Bacn […]

Filed under: Decision Theory, Ideas, Medicine, Science by Andrew la Grange
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