Archive for November, 2008
Monday, November 24th, 2008
The SABC reports that the Merafong Anti-Dermacation Forum says the Khutsong community will not vote in next year's election unless incorporated into Gauteng. Remember they did the same thing in the 2006 elections - when just 123 people voted.
There are two sides to this. On the one, national coverage of ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Considering the events of today - another politically themed post. Petitions are pretty useless - most of the time anyway. That doesn't matter thought; get enough signitures and you get coverage - get coverage and you're better off than you were to start off with.
The farce of Jacob Zuma challenging ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Helen Zille has something right in her weekly newsletter - that Africa has Barack Obama wrong:
The Zimbabwean dictator interpreted Obama’s victory through a racial prism; he saw it as an affirmation of racial identity. In fact, it was the exact opposite. It was the triumph of the open, opportunity society ...
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