Comments on: Editors who don’t support the ANC don’t stand for anything

By: Peter Nielsen

Peter Nielsen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:02 +0000

To answer your first question (how do we account for the absence of a single black editor who supports the African National Congress?) : maybe its because most editors don’t have to rely on food packages that are dependent on supporting the ANC.
Maybe, just maybe, they’re able to analyse the situation and report objectively on issues that affect the interests of a nation and its people, not a party and its president.
But you know this surely, the intentional dumbing down of the issues in your blogs is designed to enrage and distract. The mission is not anti-government, it is to interrogate government.
So while you may be clever enough to manipulate the issues in your article, it doesn’t make you smart.
Just desperate for a govt PR job and Niehaus’ old apartment.

By: Tgirl

Tgirl — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:40:38 +0000

There are very few people who can speak the truth openly like you do. Most of us (especially blacks) prefer to suffer silently for economic reasons. It’s sad. The thought of challenging your master is intimidating. It is for this reason that the black editors choose to echo their masters voices than being themselves. We still have a long way to go

By: Khaya Dlanga

Khaya Dlanga — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:35:47 +0000

hahahahahaha! It’s a pity your response to me is not on here. There is nothing I appreciate more than a great comeback. “I already have a high paying government job.” I’m still laughing. LOL!

By: S.G

S.G — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:09:24 +0000

You are hilarious! You seem to have deliberately misunderstood the editorial role. You’re obviously v intelligent, intellectual even. Why do you do deliberately dumb yourself down?!

Editors are meant to be impartial and see the whole picture. That is why they must be critical of EVERYONE. What use would they be if they only supported one political party? Buying newspapers would be pointless, as you would already know what they would say before you bought them…so what would the point be?

It’s probably best if you refrain from any editorial positions, hahahaha. Your publication would be v dull and predictable.

By: Mzimkhulu

Mzimkhulu — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:48:19 +0000

Meant to say; “we are through being treated like deaf-mutes”.

By: Mzimkhulu

Mzimkhulu — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:20:56 +0000

Gus;

Memela’s twisted logic did not need any injection of apartheid glorification. The philosophy of apartheid you appear to be so fond of, was ironically premised on the same irrationality and intellectual bankruptcy which form the basis of Memela’s incomprehensible nonsense.

You attempt to elevate “bantu education” to a status it does not deserve, like Memela’s push for the recognition and acceptance of rubbish to a status it too, does not deserve. What you call “education” was indoctrination and propaganda aimed at making the African people slaves at the service of white supremacy.

Memela’s diatribe attempts to do exactly the same thing but it is journalism that is required to unleash the propaganda and indoctrination and keep us enslaved to government arrogance and its futile attempts to turn us into zombies and robots who see no evil and hear no evil while they line their pockets with our money and the wealth of those not yet born.

The two of you appear to be made from the same cloth that is white with some shades of black! We are through being treated like death-mutes and nonentities by individuals who suffer from “narcisstic personality disorder and delusions of grandeur. Hitler is dead; so is Goebbels!

By: GUS

GUS — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:49:33 +0000

The ANC never built schools. That was done by the Nats and other colonialists.

All the ANC managed was to provide an education for all that is inferior even to former bantu education.

Hail the uncollared black editors hail! They are the true heroes.

By: Mark Robertson

Mark Robertson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:48:56 +0000

Dear Philippa,
“I find it quite incredulous (sic – incredible) that white women so vehemently oppose AA when they have recently been proven to have benefited most from it than both black men and black women combined”. Um…maybe it’s because they don’t think that discriminating against people based on their race and gender is ethical? Would you be equally amazed at the traffic cop who refused a bribe out of his moral convictions even though it would benefit him personally? People have more depth than you may suspect.

By: Monica Seeber

Monica Seeber — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:24:00 +0000

I was really frightened when I read Sandile Memela’s piece and some of the comments agreeing with him, frightened because the piece was an ugly uninformed diatribe, undiluted vitriol. Frightened because so many readers, agreeing with him, jump to unwarranted conclusions and wild generalisations. Too many to list but here’s one: “the educated and the middle class will always resist change in any form. The only manaifesto [sic] that will make sense to them is that of the DA because it guarantees protection of what they have.” It’s just a lie! I’m educated and middle class, and so are all my friends (black, white and various shades in between if you must know), and not one of us resists change and not one of us supports the DA. There’s something very unpleasant abroad in this country right now – a supposed freedom to sling accusations and insults around at will. But most frightening, perhaps, is Memela’s “There should be public hearings, perhaps, on the content of the character of our editors, their aspirations and anxieties, orientation and opportunities.” Wow. Is this a foretaste of Nazism?

By: Mzimkhulu

Mzimkhulu — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:15:25 +0000

My comments are a response to Themba’s diatribe.