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by The Sumo on February 9th, 2010
Why do women in Johannesburg have to be so lazy?! To say that I am a traditionalist would be a wild inaccuracy. Yes, I am a proud Zulu man. Yes, I do actually count Zulu royalty among my ancestors. Yes, I believe there should be a clear head of the h...
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by David J Smith on February 9th, 2010
When they got Al Capone, it wasn't for some heinous crime, it wasn't for murder or extortion or racketeering, it was for tax evasion. Eliot Ness didn't boot down the door and catch Big Al with a gun in his hand. No, he came at him on a technicality....
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by Onkgopotse JJ Tabane on February 8th, 2010
The last twenty years have seen the death of intellectual debate in South Africa. In the book The Poverty of Ideas, edited by William Mervin Gumede and Leslie Dikeni, a set of authors mourn this death by tackling head on the uncomfortable issue of th...
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by Sandile Memela on February 8th, 2010
Some of our campuses are on fire with predominantly black students running amok, again. The deep rumbles of discontent on these campuses like the Tshwane University of Technology, for instance, can easily be mistaken for a yearning for access to educ...
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by Jennifer Thorpe on February 8th, 2010
The ANC is the ruling party. The ANC has the power to enact positive change through effective leadership and policy. Yet, South Africa is still one of the most dangerous places to live for a woman. At least three women are raped every minute in South...
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by Jenny Goodrick on February 8th, 2010
Subsequent to my blog "I want three wives!" I discovered a book titled Forty years among the Zulus. It was written in 1891 by Rev Josiah Tyler, a missionary in Natal.
Here are his observations regarding polygamy at that time:
"Polygamy presents...
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by Amanda Sevasti on February 8th, 2010
"I hate my job. And it's so cold and miserable here. I just want to come home!" I hear this pretty often when I chat to friends online.
"Well, why don't you then?" I reply.
"Because it's just three more years until I get my British passport."
...
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by Bert Olivier on February 8th, 2010
In my last post, I placed Cameron's Avatar in the interpretive framework of eco-political thought and practice. One could approach it in different ways, too, of course, one of which is to look at its interesting configuration of the relation between ...
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by Jennifer Thorpe on February 8th, 2010
The ANC is the ruling party. The ANC has the power to enact positive change through effective leadership and policy. Yet, South Africa is still one of the most dangerous places to live for a woman. At least three women are raped every minute in South...
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by Sandile Memela on February 8th, 2010
I never believed Sonono Khoza. Not because I thought that she deliberately lied about having sexual relations with President Jacob Zuma or because the issue of sleeping with a married man, especially a president, is trivial.
I did not believe her ...
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by Rod MacKenzie on February 7th, 2010
Source : Sapa /dbm/tk
An email joke doing the rounds at the moment is titled "An incredible story of luck and inspiration for us all!" It shows a picture of an extremely ugly, fat man with a gorgeous blonde clinging to him. Let's call the...
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by Jenny Goodrick on February 8th, 2010
Subsequent to my blog "I want three wives!" I discovered a book titled Forty years among the Zulus. It was written in 1891 by Rev Josiah Tyler, a missionary in Natal.
Here are his observations regarding polygamy at that time:
"Polygamy presents...
Comments: 20
| Rating: 4 / 5 | Views: 1103
by Amanda Sevasti on February 8th, 2010
"I hate my job. And it's so cold and miserable here. I just want to come home!" I hear this pretty often when I chat to friends online.
"Well, why don't you then?" I reply.
"Because it's just three more years until I get my British passport."
...
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by Michael Trapido on February 7th, 2010
The Democratic Alliance and African National Congress have issued statements welcoming President Jacob Zuma's apology that he "deeply regretted" the pain he caused his family, the ANC and South Africans after revelations that he fathered a child out ...
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by Bert Olivier on February 8th, 2010
In my last post, I placed Cameron's Avatar in the interpretive framework of eco-political thought and practice. One could approach it in different ways, too, of course, one of which is to look at its interesting configuration of the relation between ...
Comments: 6
| Rating: 3 / 5 | Views: 454
by Onkgopotse JJ Tabane on February 8th, 2010
The last twenty years have seen the death of intellectual debate in South Africa. In the book The Poverty of Ideas, edited by William Mervin Gumede and Leslie Dikeni, a set of authors mourn this death by tackling head on the uncomfortable issue of th...
Comments: 6
| Rating: 5 / 5 | Views: 370
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well said David- sense at last thank god almighty....
haiwa tigere on Clinton's cigar, Zuma's loins and the curse of petty politics
Sumo at first I thought this was tongue in chick- but i guess not.
I see a similar trend here in australia.Lots of ozzie man are taking a flight out to the Phillipines and marrying a filipino woman usually with child rather than marry some of our Au...
haiwa tigere on I blame your mother
Haau Jenny! Did you really have to read a missionary's work to understand the culture of those he obviously despised?
That's condencending, I'm afraid.
The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office recently made public the dispacthes of the Queen's...
Vusi Nzaphs on Many wives make light work...
Poor academic delivery has a price:failure.If the education system and all related factors for good academic performance were in place,these students would not for fun go to streets to toy-toy.Bishop Tutu in 1985 once said we were a lost generation.t...
My daughter will be the first in my family to matriculate, She will be the first to attend university in the extended family. All this despite my lack of education. I cannot assist with her homework, The maths is way above my head. Cooking, Tourism a...
Guy McLaren on White matrics are our black future
JJ, my question to you is why did you(plural)allow COPE to trod like a steam engine, instead of the bullet train we were all hoping for? Do you know the amount of hope we put on this young party, as an alternative for the dispondant citizen tired of ...
Amore Mia on The death of debate in SA
OK, I will take you up, on that challenge.
Solution 1 to the budget deficit: The president's salary becomes a fixed amount which he can spend as he likes. Even better if it is a fixed percentage of the tax earned for the year, which means less ta...
With maternal mortality lower employment for women etc etc- the ANC womens league does not have Zumas sexual gymnastics on its agenda. This is Your agenda.You deal with it. A black woman in the village will not mention zuma twice today because of...
haiwa tigere on Does the ANC Women's League exist?
Sandile, you are spot on.
Let them hypocrits drivel on, fact remains, we are all going to pay for all of JZ's kids and wives whether we like it or not.
All this noise will die down, and then life goes on....
DeltaM on What about Sonono's rights?
(cont.) Then, too, that some black students seem to possess “a culture of entitlement” hardly distinguishes them from millions of other South Africans, white as well as black. That those causing major disruptions to campus life are mostly not achievi...
John Collings on Black students sabotage their own future
Your point, that black university students who trash campuses do so because they are failing academically rather than because of an inability to pay university fees, is made verbosely but too baldly. I believe they are the unfortunate inheritors of a...
John Collings on Black students sabotage their own future
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by Sandile Memela on February 8th, 2010
I never believed Sonono Khoza. Not because I thought that she deliberately lied about having sexual relations with Presi...
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by Rod MacKenzie on February 7th, 2010
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