Category: Comment
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Prez Khama Tells It Like It Is
Wow. Prez Khama of Botswana is getting some positive publicity these days. Well done! How good to read some forthright comment from the Prez. Business Day – thank you – reports how Prez Khama believes the Chinese have not delivered on their power generation contract stating that four generation plants…
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Happy Birthday Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono is 80 and still performing. It feels like yesterday she was chastised and insulted for being the ‘oriental’ that stole our favourite Beatle away from his suburbia. What rubbish! It would appear that our John Lennon was itching to explore the alternative unconventional side to himself. Yoko was…
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A New Political Shot At Change
So Mamphela Ramphele launches her new poliical initiative, I call it an ‘initiative’ because while it has a name ‘Agang’ (Sesotho for Build) – what a name for a country currently wracked by violence!- it has to collar much support to become a feasible and practical opposition to the ruling…
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“Do SA Unions Know Apartheid Has Ended?” Questions Botswana Prez
Business Day recently reported that Prez Ian Khama of Botswana was becoming increasingly frustrated by the union activity in South Africa, especially the current strikes at the Port of Durban. Durban is the main port of landing for Botswana and delays there mean delays in Botswana. Botswana is currently exploring…
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Why Do They Tell and Should We Know?
Gosh the Sunday papers are full of it here in South Africa… Oscar this… Oscar that… he saw.. she saw … and now we all saw and read about details that have obviously been leaked to the press about that fateful evening last week when Reeva Steenkamp was shot in…
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Women, Violence and Oscar
The incidence of violence against women was kind of knocked off the front page after our Oscar allegedly shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The media has now become focused on covering the story of a man who overcame his disability and became an Olympian, a South African national treasure and…
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