Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Would you like some debate with your politics? A petition to Jacob Zuma.

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 ...

Africa on Barack Obama

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 ...

Has quiet diplomacy worked?

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Forward note - just because this is the first real post doesn't mean all posts are about politics ... I'm not that simple - ok. A number of people on Mail and Guardian's Thought Leader are asking an interesting question - does that possibility of a chance in leadership in Zimbabwe ...

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