They said my renderings of prosaic milieu Of this and that and of the poetique few Were causing dissent among the comradely hue They said my beggarman approach Of taking principles as the policy bones Was outmoded, outdated and outcloned That now we had a new way and means To sift this from that and…
Herein follows the transcript of a series of questions put to Avishkar Govender, and is reproduced with the kind permission of the Durban Fretus Society. Q: Mr Govender, as a founder of the Thiru Valluvar Centre at the Hindu Tamil Institute Building in Durban, what is the significance of the Thiru Kural for the contemporary…
Herewith my argument for the Lifting of Restrictions and Sanctions of all sorts on Zimbabwe and the leaders of Zimbabwe… The contentions of the global community are that:- The leadership of Zimbabwe are perpetrating acts of gross human rights violations against their own people. The leadership of Zimbabwe have misappropriated resources and funds for their…
I will not try to con you now by telling you that I had at some time considered COPE to be something of value for South Africa. I will not try to con you now by telling you that I was disappointed by COPE’s election results in 2009. But most of all, I will not…
Madam Chair, As the outcome of any such strengthening or relaxation of the provisions of Resolution 1874, would be tantamount to negotiating with tyrannical regime, and given that the net response from the sanctioned nation, North Korea, has been belligerence and brinkmanship, it is unwise to revisit this resolution going forward. The Security Council must…
Even in as much as nobody in South Africa represented the antithesis of the values of the new South Africa, and its participating parties, more so that the late Eugene Terreblanche, the people of South Africa extend our sincere condolences to the Terreblanche family and to those who were close to the late leader of…
CHORUS: We wanna sing, sing songs of freedom We wanna sing, sing songs to lead ‘em We wanna sing, sing songs of healing We wanna sing, sing songs to reel ‘em These songs we sing, we sing them freely These songs we sing, we sing them clearly These songs we sing, we sing with pride…
Power is a measure of propensity; that is that, while propensity is the confluence of the independent incidences of ability, capacity and opportunity (ACO); within a single being, that that propensity is also, in and by itself, a determinant of the likelihood of any subsidiary action, whether singular or en masse, because it is a…
A cursory squizz through YouTube will tell you a lot about Mugabe, a man who is recorded all over the internet as having something to do with Zimbabwe. He is variously referred to as one of the liberators of Africa — having served the liberation movements of Africa since his youth and as the tyrant…
His Excellency, the President Messier JS Malema, Esq. c/o ANC Youth League Luthuli House, Sauer Street Johannesburg, South Africa Dear Jules As you know I attempted, of my own volition, to save your political career at the end of August 2009, with the publication of a electronic booklet, called the Prosperity of Our Potential. Written…
