Mbeki faces lame-duck term

Based on ANC election results last night, if I were Thabo Mbeki I would call an early election therefore passing on the thrown to my (undesirable) successor.
Why: I don’t see Mbeki & Jacob Zuma working together, one will have to remember  that Mbeki will have choice between doing what Zuma as ANC president tells him to do [...]

560 killed on SA roads

I can’t believe that in one month so many people have died on our roads, how many more deaths should there be before our people realise the importance of the lives they carrying as well as of those they passing.
I cannot believe that someone would drive a track 17 times more than the limit, isn’t [...]

A blogger in Polokwane … an experiment gone wrong

As the heading suggest, if you like blow by blow accounts of the development in ANC (African National Congress) conference in Polokwane check out this blog it’s spot on.
Well done to Ndumiso Ngcobo (have a taste by reading more below)
…Walking around the Limpopo university campus this morning, I felt like I was back in the [...]

Actors shot dead on set by Angolan police

Two actors were shot dead and another three wounded while filming a crime drama in the Angolan capital Luanda on Monday when police mistook them as armed robbers, their director said.
According to Radical Ribeiro, a director for the Banda Mulundi production company, the tragedy happened as a crowd of onlookers were watching a scene being [...]

Looking tired and vulnerable, the president exposed the softer side of his complex personality, which South Africans hardly ever see.

At his official residence in Pretoria on Wednesday, President Thabo Mbeki gave the first interview of his eight-year presidency to the Mail & Guardian. Looking tired and vulnerable, the president exposed the softer side of his complex personality, which South Africans hardly ever see. He has clearly been taken aback by the backlash against him [...]

German Government Publication Promotes Incestuous Pedophilia as Healthy Sex Education

Micheal O’Brien, author on crisis of culture in West, says this “German state intervention in family life is a new level of auto-destruction”
By John-Henry Westen
BERLIN, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Booklets from a subsidiary of the German government’s Ministry for Family Affairs encourage parents to sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of [...]

Battle lines drawn

More than a week ago members of Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) released a statement calling on President Thabo Mbeki to withdraw from the ANC leadership race. http://www.sowetan.co.za/Columnists/LuckyMazibuko/Article.aspx?id=613901

Monetary policy needs a break

Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has been systematic, almost brutal, in dealing with the surge in CPIX inflation above the target range. Over the past year and a half he has raised interest rates consistently, offering little promise of a relaxation in monetary policy in the medium term.
http://free.financialmail.co.za/07/1207/front/aedop.htm

Democracy it’s not

The three – Cyril Ramaphosa, Tokyo Sexwale and Mathews Phosa – had obviously been identified by some bright spark, if not by Mbeki himself, as a threat. The allegation was meant to snuff out their political careers. It was classic Mbeki: paranoid and conspiratorial. It backfired badly.
http://free.financialmail.co.za/07/1207/front/ednote.htm

Charmzas of the week

The local and international musicians who dedicated their time to take part in the Fifth 46664 World Aids Awareness Day concert yesterday are all charmzas.
World Aids Day is an opportunity for everyone to show their support for people living with HIV-Aids.
You know yourselves, charmzas, the list is too long for me to name you all.  [...]