Category: Comment
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The Unassuming South African Public Protector
Thuli Masondela was awarded the Johannesburg Press Club Newsmaker of the Year Award today. It was not based on how many column inches she received in the press, it was a combination of media space and the way she and her team conduct themselves in their media communications and relations…
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WHO LET PREZ OBAMA DOWN ON GUN CONTROL?
Crime is a worldwide problem, but how come, a Bill to make background checks on applications for a gun licence more in-depth in the USA, did not become approved ? The US-of bullet-A has an increasing amount of gun crime, particularly within educational facilities where scholars and teachers are being…
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Revvy Trevvy and Zonked Out Zuma
How lovely to read Trevor Manuel’s (South African Minister in the Presidency)comments about the role of civil servants and government representatives. I agree it is time to stop using the apartheid era as an excuse for bad service, non-delivery of governmental services and apathy towards serving the citizens of our…
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Mr Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela has been in and out of hospital regularly these last few months. He is an aged man, statesman and family man. Usually for a man of that age one sits back and says, he has lived a good life, a good age, but in his case one is…
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Obamarising the Middle East
I don’t profess to be an expert on the politics or dynamics of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Having visited Israel and seen the places of major faiths merge in Jerusalem, it is hard to understand why tolerance, respect of faith and differences can not be established like a no-fly zone around…
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Police Brutality
You get good cops and bad cops… and then you get brutal cops! Why? Bad training? Power mongers? Corruption ? Attitude? South Africa has been plastered on the front pages and top story slots of the international media over the latest brutality by police in Daveyton. It raises the question,…
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