sex worker arrests unlawful (SWEAT)

City’s vice squad violating SWEAT’s interdict Lawyers acting on behalf of SWEAT (Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce) have submitted a letter to the City of Cape Town detailing in legal terms why the ongoing arrests of sex workers are unlawful and requesting that the City respond by 5 November.
On 16 October 2009 the City [...]

Can we trust media to look after itself?

The media has been canvassing for relaxation of regulations with regards to what it can publish and what it cannot publish. Thus far a number of these laws have been relaxed compared to apartheid era. However a lot still needs to be done by media or South African Broadcasting Complaints Commission as well as Advertising [...]

South Africa watches on as 800m Gold medalist, ‘Caster’ Semenya is being abused

I’ve been following the story of Mokgadi “Caster” Semenya the female 800 mitres’ specialist at the Berlin (German) Olympics.
 
I have to say I’m over the moon with her achievements thus far she really deserves a big, loud welcome when she lands at OR Tambo international airport. However what I find disturbing is the support she’s [...]

Dr Herb (Sicelo Shiceka) takes over where Dr Beetroot (Tshabalala-Msimang) left off (HIV/AIDS)

Sicelo Shiceka this week stuck to his controversial statements that “herbs” have an important role to play in “bringing down the viral load in HIV/AIDS”.
Still recovering from an era of AIDS denialism and quackery under former health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and then President Thabo Mbeki, South Africans read in a weekend newspaper that the [...]

Hiding Africa’s Looted Funds: The Silence of Western Media

Quite often when you read newspapers, listen to radio and watch television in the West you learn how poor Africans are and how corrupt African leaders are. But you will never watch, read or hear anything in these media outlets about the role being played by Western banking institutions; property development and estate companies; the [...]

OPEN LETTER TO FORMER PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI

Dear Cde Mbeki
 
The events that came to pass in our country in the last week have left me very little
option, but to address you directly on the matters at hand.
 
I am certain that you are painfully aware that the release of the transcripts of the
conversations between Ngcuka and McCarthy, not only sent shockwaves through the
nation, [...]

Let’s talk about the tapes that got JZ off the hook

Brief background
Our airports have become the centre of criminal activities which amounts between 200 million 300 million a year this is just at OR Tambo airport alone. In 2001 Paul O’Sullivan was appointed as Group Executive – Aviation Security, Employed by Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) his role was to ensure such criminal activities as [...]

Race is still the issue (will South Africans’ vote depend on it?)

In 1994 when African National Congerss (ANC) campaigned for power and a number of promises were made to All South Africans amongst them a better life for all. 15 years later the same promises are still being made by the same organisation. On the other hand DA took less than 4 years to deliver services [...]

The Jacob Zuma saga continues

Firstly I have to applaud the ANC (African National Congress) for once they didn’t give names to Judges, as we all know what they’ve been saying in the past whenever a court ruled against them. This time around they gave the judges the respect that they deserve and ‘accepted’ the ruling; I wish I could [...]

ANC is its own worst enemy

As much as the ANC managed to pull a historic landmark, where a seating president was defeated, this is a very rare phenomenon any where in the world, because cadres tend to be very afraid of state presidents, due to obvious reasons a case in point is Zimbabwe. However instead of the ANC consolidating its [...]