Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
About a week ago I received an email from a person living in Germany who I met a couple of years ago when she visited South Africa. She was looking for advice on a presentation titled 'The ANC wins again, South African elections - is the legacy/heritage of Nelson Mandela ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Watching the NPA news conference this morning, I had the distinct feeling that the Acting National Director of Public Prosecutions knew what he was talking about. His discussion surrounding how pure political interference in a case is not in itself a satisfactory reason not to pursue it was all well ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
With their shiny new website and all, the DAhas been trying to engage more and more with social media. One of those means has been Helen Zille's Twitter account.
It's nice and all getting updates from the leader of the opposition. But Twitter is meant to be about conversation - with ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
I just read this article, and am pretty shocked. With attitudes like this the United States of Africa is going to go no where headed by this guy.
"The Libyan leader also sympathised with Somali pirates, describing their actions as self-defence."
"He also raised eyebrows by saying that multi-party democracy only led ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Today the Pretoria High Court ruled that South African Expats should be allowed to vote and that laws preventing them from doing so are unconstitutional. Of course those laws are - a quick check of the Bill of Rights shows us this:
Every adult citizen has the right to vote in ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
During the US Presidential Elections (I think it was during the primary season) I remember a web app which allowed the user to specify their political views and they were then helped in finding the candidates which best mirror those views.
My plan is to make something similar for these elections, ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
I understood that the ANC had already lined up a candidate to become the next head of the NPA - but I didn't know that the same person was once a member of Jacob Zuma's legal team.
Hopefully things will not go that far; it seems like Parliament will rubber-stamp Pikoli's ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
The website of the 'South African Representative to the Palestinian National Authority' (closest thing to an embassy they are allowed, I guess) has a link to the 'Letter from the leader of the African National Congress' - linking to the ANC home page. Clearly this is no mislink to an ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
One of the leading stories on the Mail and Guardian's website is "Security Council stint a milestone for SA, says gov" and the entire article is a regurgitation of why the Department of Foreign Affairs thinks it did a good job - with absolutely no rebuttal of this pathetic claim.
The ...
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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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