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In all the doom and gloom reporting about South Africa’s ability to host a successful World Cup, the New York Times has captured the national spirit in ways we don’t often see ourselves.
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Which planet do you live on? Every time a politician is shocked about the living conditions of the poor majority, alarmed by hospitals where babies die of diseases of simple infection and hygiene, or is angry about our dismal public school pass rates, you have to ask: which planet do they live on? Because it’s not Mzansi.
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In all the heat about the race for the provincial leadership of the ANC now under way in Gauteng, how much have we heard about the province?
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On Tuesday South Africa marks Freedom Day. As a nation we have so much to be thankful for.
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IT’S supposed to be an African World Cup, so why do we have a European ticketing system?
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YOU’VE got to love us. Instead of war, we made fun of ourselves.
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IT cannot be a coincidence that just a few days after ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema visited Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye in prison, the chief state prosecutor in the trial was allegedly instructed by prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane not to oppose bail.
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WE in the world of journalism play a hardball game. We infringe on privacy, access company records and often write about issues that individuals would prefer did not see the light of day.
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HAVE you ever entered an adult store? Have you flicked your remote control to late-night soft porn on television? Surfed an adult website?
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WHAT a balls-up! We are spending just more than R180?billion on improving infrastructure for the World Cup, but our national squad, in whose performance we are invested, doesn’t have two tickeys to rub together.
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THE call by trade union federation Cosatu for an audit of the lavish lifestyles of ANC leaders in the party and government is a double-edged sword. If it does not go ahead it will expose the liberation’s movement unwillingness to fight corruption.
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WHEN the news broke of a massive earthquake hitting Haiti earlier this week, many people wondered, not for the first time, why disaster seems to disproportionately befall this poor Caribbean country.
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The most polite way to describe 2009 would be ... eventful. We have been through an election, the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma, the installation of a new government, an exciting World Cup draw, an international athletics saga, bull-fighting and juju.
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SPARE a thought, spare a dime, spare a pot of food for the one million South Africans who lost their jobs this year.
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DECEMBER 10 (International Human Rights Day) marks the end of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign.
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It's a heart-stopping thing to do. As much as the 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children campaign encourages the act of speaking out, it is not an easy thing to do.
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Thursday night marked the end of the talent search show SA’s Got Talent.
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This weekend was supposed to be a joyous commemoration of the life of Miriam Makeba, one of the best musicians and humanitarians the world has ever seen.
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“It is a sad day when those relegated to the rubbish bin of history want to make a comeback through . . . rumblings of a raving lunatic.”
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We bade farewell to two Joels this week: Santana and Netshitenzhe.
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THE rot of collapsing municipalities has come back to the doorstep of the ruling party.
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The election of Kirsten Nematandani and a new national executive committee to lead the South African Football Association (Safa) has been hailed as a breath of fresh air.
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The unrest in Sakhile, near Standerton in Mpumalanga, mirrors a long-standing problem in the running of our municipalities: corruption.
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South Africa’s appalling crime rate was in the spotlight again this week with the release of the latest crime statistics.
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There is no culture in South Africa of leaders falling on their swords no matter how much they mess up. But the country seems united on Athletics South Africa (ASA) boss Leonard Chuene: he must go.
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The level of political interference at Transnet does not bode well for the effective management of parastatals.
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THIS week Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been celebrating 40 years since he led a bloodless coup. The celebrations featuring banquets and carnival-like floats were less about Libyans rejoicing and more about Gaddafi telling the world that he had arrived.
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COMMUTERS are going to be the biggest losers in the stand-off over the implementation of Johannesburg’s Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system, which was scheduled to steam ahead tomorrow.
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Mr George Annandale complained to the Press Ombudsman about an article in City Press written by Andile Mngxitama and published on April 11 2010, headlined Blacks in bondage. The Ombudsman’s offices note that Mngxitama wrote the article in his personal capacity and that it was in no way related to his fulltime work.
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We should all take a bow for proving the naysayers wrong and getting the key elements of the World Cup ready in good time.
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At once Malema has been allowed to save face, the governing ANC has avoided a militant battle with its league that would have hurt the mother ship more than the Young Turks and there is a measure of public censure in the creativity of the punishment he faces.
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At 30 years old you should be hitting your stride, sure of yourself and taking your place in your country, continent and the world.
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THE reaction of a neighbour of the one-year-old girl from Gauteng who was badly assaulted during a robbery echoes many South Africans’ outrage: How could they do that to a baby?
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NATIONAL director of Public Prosecutions Menzi Simelane is a man on a mission – he wants to transform the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA
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FINALLY the African National Congress has smacked down ANC Youth League president Julius Malema.
It was a week in which Australopithicus sediba should have taken centre stage.
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SNARED by false promises. Deceived. Threatened. Smuggled. Abused. Exploited. Prostituted. Brutalised. Enslaved. Trapped.
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LIKE a cornered tiger, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s claws are out.
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IT must be something in the water, but every time ANC leaders get into trouble about something, they shout “Plot!”.
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COSATU is wrong about the budget. It is a deeply pro-poor budget with very little good news for business, the middle-classes or the wealthy.
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THIS week’s announcement of poor World Cup ticket sales in South Africa is a clear indication that Fifa and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) have to urgently revisit the sales model for locals.
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So what does 2010 hold? The year is already short-hand for football. And it would take a hard heart not to be excited by the prospect of hosting a World Cup.
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AFTER the success that was the 2010 World Cup Draw in Cape Town on Friday there shouldn’t be any doubting Thomases left.
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TWO degrees Celsius. It seems a tiny figure. But at the moment it is an insurmountable obstacle.
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This week has marked yet another milestone on the road to the 2010 Fifa World Cup next June when the last of the 32 nations qualified for the event.
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President Jacob Zuma’s greatest assets during the liberation struggle and the negotiations to end apartheid are proving to be his biggest liabilities as president.
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Another week. Another parastatal. Another race war. Has Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga been fired or not?
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Never mind the question of whether ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will become president one day. He is already de facto president.
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One can almost imagine Professor Jonathan Jansen’s excitement as he prepared to deliver his inaugural lecture last Friday as the recently installed rector and vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State.
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WE ALL know that we get ripped off by the cellular phone companies. But until now, South Africa’s consumers have done what we do: complained and then sent another “Please call me”.
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Beyond the gripping drama of former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi’s corruption case, which started this week, lie many lessons for all leaders, particularly those involved in the fight against crime.
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What I see is that the director-general of the labour department will be in constant communication with the president of the BMF.” – Jimmy Manyi.
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President Zwelinzima Vavi. That’s quite a thought but in a democratic state it’s as entirely legitimate an aspiration for the trade union leader as it is for each of us. At this week’s 10th Cosatu congress Vavi threw his hat into the political ring.
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As a country we have spent the past three years immersed in the internal politics of the ANC and its communist and trade union allies.
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The sorry saga surrounding Caster Semenya leaves a bitter-sweet taste in the mouth. It is a story that has no happy ending.
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Dear Sir,
I read with great interest this week that your board had decided to grant asylum to Brandon Huntley, formerly of Cape Town. He told you that he was a victim of crime and racism – I am too.
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With respect, M’lords and M’ladies of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), there is only one word to describe your finding on Cape Judge President John Hlophe. Whitewash!
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TAKE a look at the shoes Caster Semenya wore when she struck gold in Berlin this week.
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THE story of Tshwane’s King of Bling, William Mbatha, shows how desperately South Africa needs real role models.