But I can say with conviction not only that the issue he addresses is vital but also that he does it better than anyone else I have read. The grandly named Fourth Estate has been money’s lackey for centuries.

Which is great because it means Blogging is Best!

The most telling paragraph reads as follows:………………..” Those who did not get the awards, including the piqued Sandile Memela, then a columnist at City Press, rubbished the awards, the FBJ and me. Subsequently Memela teamed up with the long-lost Khalo to start an organisation that died immediately after birth”. This from the man who defends the resurrection of the FBJ as a convenient career saving vehicle to cannonise and slobber all over his latest best friend and future boss, Jacob Zuma

So much for Sandile’s high and mighty repetitive ranting about the uniquely African mindset and Ubuntu . Meshack goes on to assert that the ANC, which pays Sandiles bloated salary and perks, actually has done more to stifle and kill off intellectual and free thought and speech than the dreaded Apartheid Government ever did.

So Sandile, if you must tell a pack of lies on your blog, maybe a bit of humility and apologies are due from you. Maybe you could actaully outline practical examples of unique afrcian thinking – must it be anti-west by definition – then who does it support? If there is any ubuntu in todays discourse within the ANC, I find it hard to detect

I could drive five HoD top of the range SUV’s (of which I’m sure you own at least one) through most of your banality, but then I’d be as boring as you are . So I raise but one or two points :
The one that springs most clearly into focus is the presumably acceptably transformed SABC. News is still controlled by one Snuki Zikilala (PhD Bulgaria) (failed) (sic), who has been criticized by a number of Government commissions of enquiry, for his lack of impartiality, equity and fairness eg: John Perlman and the black (non FBJ) de-listing. The SABC news looks more and more like a Rian Kruiwaagen doppelganger from the bad old days of SABC 1/2/3 (white/black/English and coconut multi-national sophisticates). So those, like yourself who live in posh glass houses, in Waterkloof, should hold their tongue before attacking so called coconut journalism.

Except for government controlled media such as in Cuba, Zimbabwe, China and to some degree Russia Confederation, advertising and ABC ratings indicate that fine line between what the public wants and what sells the products that make a profit for non-govenment sponsored media . The ANC government since taking over has made a practice of making personality cults via
expensive paid government sponsored adds, emblazoned with your pictures and dreary messages from mayors, municipal managers. MEC’s, Provincial departments, HoD’s, ministers and the likes of yourself (paid government apparatchiks). So the withdrawal of such full page super expensive colour adds from the ST along with thousands of skilled unfilled jobs (lack of applicants, sic?) could be a hefty blow. But I don’t know were you where during apartheid (probably in some comfortable fascist homeland ministerial mansion in Qwa qwa -sic ), but much of the white press – and I name Cape Times, Daily Dispatch, Ront Daily Mail, and Max du Preez fought courageous and dangerous political battles with no offers of cushy jobs of blogging commissars – endlessly writing cr@p on tax payers time

Now we seem to have abandoned class struggle in all but name, and are interested again in the crudest constructs of race.

There is simply no attempt by Journalist to tackle head on the problems that affect these country.Its a tradition that will take a long time to break from.What we read in the media especially our newspapers is shamelessly degrading.There is simply no desire to provide content behind what is given.

Our reporting is so poor that its full of hearsays and romaticized stories.It lacks interrogative journalism.I honestly think it has nothing to do with colour but with materialsim which perpetrates commercialism.Lets create an environment where ideas can be freely expressed without self-censoring that is killing our media today.
Lets also agree do disagree on everything.Lastly,it will take centuries to give real power to black journalist.We know for sure that those newsrooms lacks transformation so its not suprising that we see journalistic poverty continuing even today.

Well, Sandile, seeing that your writing is infected by tired, outdated, irrelevant cries of “racism”, it is clear that you are still in the playpen throwing your toys. Here’s the bad news: the world doesn’t care. Nobody believes Africans crying like toddlers about racism any longer, 50 years after many African countries have gained “freedom”.

Once again, move on. While you Africans are crying “racism”, a billion Indians and a billion Chinese are working their butts off. India was also a British colony. The Brits also ruled parts of China. The Japanese invaded China. Do you hear the Chinese endlessly crying about other people’s racism? No, they are too busy growing their economy at 12, 10 or 9% (South Africa: 2% this year).

You are before a clear choice: feel sorry for yourself forever, keep on whingeing about racism / colonialism / apartheid and lose the game, or move on an join the world. Get out of the playpen or forever be seen as a little toddler unable to fend for yourself, Sandile.