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What is left of the South Africa of our dreams? Ask the thief-in-chief What do we have left now? Once there were the Scorpions, a respected crime-fighting unit. The people had faith in them. The corrupt feared them. Jacob Zuma quaked when he thought of them. Then in 2007 he took the reins of the..
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The Western Cape High Court ruled on Wednesday that the South African government’s nuclear agreements with Russia, Korea and the US were unlawful and unconstitutional. In a landmark ruling, the Court also scrapped the South African government’s decision to buy about eight nuclear power stations — 9600MW of nuclear power. This decision was first gazetted..
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Long live poverty! Where would the rich be without the poor? More particularly, where would Zuma be? Failure to recognise these questions leads to a too easy dismissal of the ANC’s currently loudest and most persistent war-cry: radical economic transformation. Eusebius McKaiser is hardly alone in rubbishing the term as meaningless. Supposedly without meaning, he..
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Introduction By now most South Africans who took part in the marches against Jacob Zuma on his birthday, probably realised that it had little effect. Zuma laughed it off and enjoyed his birthday with his (corrupt) family and friends. So what went wrong? Simple…A lack of proper planning, and of course…Semantics…People have not realised yet..
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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is demanding of the South African government to delete Die Stem from the country’s official anthem. EFF tabled the demand while they were marking the 120th anniversary of Sontonga’s Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika. “…We mark the 120th anniversary of the death of Enoch Sontonga who composed Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika. “On this..
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The financial affairs of King Goodwill Zwelithini were once again in the spotlight on Tuesday when Premier Willies Mchunu tabled his office’s budget at the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature. The lack of direction of the Royal Household Trust and lack of accountability and state of the monarch’s farms caused some consternation among the ANC and opposition MPLs…
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The Huffington Post South Africa has a brilliantly racist genocidal new progressive plan to solve all of Africa’s problems: deny white men the right to vote, then vote to steal their assets. It’s all detailed in a new article titled, “Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?” by so called “activist and..
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 Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I permit myself more than occasional spells of righteous indignation. Any sentient person held hostage by the machinations of the incumbent South African government and its president would themselves likely be familiar with such emotions. Like an overly generous Pandora’s Box of endless shenanigans, our State..
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President Jacob Zuma on Monday described last week’s protests demanding that he resign as racist. Tens of thousands of demonstrators, angered by years of corruption scandals, record unemployment and slowing economic growth under Zuma’s rule, marched through cities on Friday. Zuma’s recent sacking of finance minister Pravin Gordhan unleashed a fresh bout of public frustration,..
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“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” – Samuel Adams Cape Town Cape Town Pretoria …We are doing it! Almost two years ago in 2015 I introduced my readers to the techniques of Strategic Non-Violent Conflict in..
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Trevor Manuel is the highest profile ANC leader yet to call on President Jacob Zuma to resign. A politician since 1981 and South Africa’s highly respected Minister of Finance from 1996 to 2009, he served presidencies of Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe. Manuel chaired the National Development Plan and during the First Zuma..
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What explains the allegedly irrational decisions taken by the South African government over recent days? Two explanations suggest themselves. The first is that the decisions were not irrational, but part of a calculated power-play designed to further entrench the Zuma-aligned faction of the African National Congress (ANC). The second is that Mr Zuma took the..
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There is a lot of brave talk about standing up to President Jacob Zuma after the dismissal of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan amid a wider Cabinet reshuffle which has been widely condemned as disastrous for South Africa. Predictions that the country has reached “a turning point”, is facing a ratings downgrade and plummeting investment, rising..
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How Estrogen Works in the Body and How to Control it Hormones are chemical messengers that our body creates to control major body functions. There are many hormones, and the more that we understand each and how they work in our bodies the more in control we can be of our health and wellbeing. Any..
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Many of you know that I sit on the clinical advisory board for a couple of companies. One of which is a company that is absolutely on the cutting edge when it comes to research of minerals, which has allowed me to dive head first into a lot of science when it comes to electrolytes,..
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