Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Who’d have thought South Africa would be trail blazing with it’s affirmative action laws? I certainly didn’t, but given the news today, it looks like the UK will be adopting a page from the South African book in the newly announced “Equalities Bill”.
Whilst most of the bill is designed to rule out discrimination and [...]

Take a good look at this face…

This is Barack Obama, who… “this morning became the first black presidential nominee in American history, hours after his defeated rival Senator Hillary Clinton floated the proposal that she be his vice-presidential running mate” (more).
On my birthday next year, he may just become the most powerful man in the [...]

The other day I pointed out this rather odd line of text in the new SA School’s Pledge and didn’t know how to pronounce it. Well, now I do…

It’s Khoisan, and as Claire pointed out it means ‘Diverse People Unite’, or ‘Unity in Diversity’.
It’s actually the motto on the new South African Coat of [...]

89 years old and still going strong…

Kick off is at 20:00 GMT.

Happy Africa Day

In an attempt to make people believe they have a say in the direction of this country, the Prime Minister’s Office has setup a section on the PM’s website where individuals can register a petition of their choice.
The most newsworthy petition so far has been the Road Pricing Petition and the only one I know [...]

This is a true sign of how stupid some people are. A quote from this article made me smile:
“You must go back and tell Mugabe that we love what he is doing for the people of Zimbabwe. He is doing a good work. You must tell him that we love him. We love him for [...]

PW Botha, one of the staunchest apartheid advocates and ex-prime ministers/presidents of South Africa, has popped his clogs at the ripe old age of 90. Not a bad innings.

I don’t remember much about this guy other than he was the head of state in South Africa for the first 10 years of my life, and [...]

Don’t worry, it’s still there, but as of today, it’s just called the OR Tambo International Airport.
Bloody waste of money if you ask me… South Africa is still a third world country with thousands of people living in poverty, yet members of the government seem to be dead keen on wasting millions of Rands [...]