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Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:08:00 +0000

[...] Courage Award at last month’s ESPY’s, as blogger Dale Williams noted in Friday’s Mail & Guardian Online. The video below shows the segment from the program, including interviews with Pienaar and a number [...]

By: Dave Harris

Dave Harris — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:47:55 +0000

@Francois Conradie
Everytime someone acknowledges Mandela ANYWHERE in this world, it serves as an inspiration to the millions who endure discrimmination and oppression. It is certainly no joke!

You must be mistaking the US for the UK …easy to do, or you must have been living on another planet during our liberation struggle not to understand the support of the US public in making sanctions work in spite of Reagan’s unpopular “constructive engagement”.

By: Francois Conradie

Francois Conradie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:22:58 +0000

Dale – don’t you think it’s even a little ridiculous to give the “Arthur Ashe courage award” to Nelson Mandela? To give to a man who risked getting hanged for treason, who spent decades in jail, an award named after a tennis player, at a ceremony organised by a sports channel? Pfff. I think it’s a bit of a joke.

@dave – I think you’ll find the US did far more to support the apartheid govt than to act against it.

By: Dave Harris

Dave Harris — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:08:29 +0000

@pete ess
Your two points are bitter rants that totally miss the central point of this discussion – the SAn media bias.

Btw. Why are you so blinded by your hatered of the US that you fail to acknowledge the social and financial pressure they exerted against the apartheid govt that you still seem to be longing for.

By: pete ess

pete ess — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:47:55 +0000

Two things: ONE: America’s NEED to rub shoulders with Madiba while they are acting like state terrorists slaughtering innocent civilians in Afghanistan by sending remote-controlled drones to bomb indiscriminately; While they support Israel unconditionally like they supported those who called Mandela a terrorist. TWO: South African leaders’ needs NOT to rub shoulders with Madiba – They don’t want people to be reminded that SA indeed has “good old days” – very recent good old days, when the Freedom Charter seemed to have a chance, and uber-enrichment was not as visible, and the big indunas did not need four black cars with blue lights shoving their way around to travel to the next indaba. Why our private media don’t report Madiba’s glory? That I don’t know.

By: Dave Harris

Dave Harris — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:17:52 +0000

Welcome back from your travels Dale! Madiba’s encouragement by example in embracing rugby is a perfect example of using sports to heal divisions in our society. That youtube video was extremely moving. I too cannot understand our media’s bias in NOT covering significant events like Arthur Ashe award on ESPY. I suppose this just highlights the importance of having more diversity in our media organizations.