Entries from October 2008

October 31, 2008

When ANC wins elections, who’ll be the official opposition party?

A lot of focus has been thinking about how Shikota party (break-away party) will dent ANC’s election victory and less about who will be the official opposition party.
The way I see it, it’s either the ANC will get a significant win or will be dented by the break-away party. In the case where the ANC [...]

October 31, 2008

Former SA President, Thabo Mbeki’s letter to ANC – full document

Comrade President, I imagine that these must be specially trying times for you as president of our movement, the ANC, as they are for many of us as ordinary members of our beloved movement, which we have strived to serve loyally for many decades.
 

 
 
I say this to apologise that I impose an additional burden on [...]

October 29, 2008

The Obama miracle, another one from Khaya :-)

Couldn’t hold myself after reading this article by the award winning Khaya Dlanga…its certainly puting fact accross but in more humerous way.
“… barring some unforeseen event or the Republicans doing what they know what to do best every four years – stealing an election. It’s easy to use the typical and lazy argument that black [...]

October 20, 2008

Do parents fulfill their role as parents considering high rate of pregnancies at Schools

Statistics gathered by City Press newspaper in Eastern Cape reveals that 9 010 girls having fallen pregnant this year, three of these were in Grade 3 (meaning they are 10 years or a little older considering that the legal age to start Grade 1 is 7 years).
East London Secondary School currently has 15 registered [...]

October 2, 2008

Ground breaking “Citizen Journalism using mobile phone” project kicks off

Local Secondary school learners from disadvantaged sectors of the Grahamstown community are getting the opportunity to put cell phones to use in interactive journalism.
These 80 scholars are using their cellular phones to contribute to Grocott’s Mail (a Grahamstown community news paper). The project is three-fold meaning; the learners will provide opinion smses on stories published [...]