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Latest Columns
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Nothing statuesque about vandalism
THE defacing of the Queen Victoria statue in Port Elizabeth’s Govan Mbeki Avenue comes as little surprise. Eradicating the past through the removal or vandalism of historic monuments is a precept as old as the Draconian ideology under which it is birthed – a dogma that forms the cornerstone of any totalitarian state, be it a home country or that established by an invading army. |
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Fuelling media’s resolve is just good Juju
“THOSE whom the gods want to destroy, they first make mad,” said Joe Latakgomo, first editor of Sowetan, of former president PW Botha’s last desperate bid to hang on to power by entrenching a draconian state of emergency in June 1986. |
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A whole lot of drinking going on
ANY South African might be forgiven for asking what the hell is going on. We have just come through a week when the president has admitted to failing to declare his interests, ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema called for the “boers” to be killed, Western Cape Premier Helen Zille vowed to pursue Malema in the courts for calling her a Satanist and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela accused her former husband of betraying black people. |
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It’s time for business to act!
SIX YEARS ago this June, I arrived in Port Elizabeth and fell in love with the city. It was clean – I mean really clean when compared to Jo’burg or Durban. It was quaint, I thought, in a Blackpool circa 1970 way. The thing that struck me then is how easily accessible everything is. |
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Look at alternatives, effects refinery may have before punting it so hard
IN a speech in the UK, during the South African state visit there, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters mentioned “climate change” eight times. This was great stuff! It seemed to indicate our government’s keen awareness of this key phenomenon of our times, and the energy sector’s major contribution to it. The phrase popped up like a spring hare as she talked through SA’s ventures in renewable energy. |
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Cup preparations a roller coaster ride, but we’re on last stage now
BEING at the coalface of preparations for the staging of the 2010 World Cup has been one heck of a roller coaster ride. From the euphoria of the announcement that we’d won the right to stage the event and then Nelson Mandela Bay being chosen as one of the host cities, to the gutting announcement we wouldn’t host the Confederations Cup and the BRT taxi strike, to the intoxicating brilliant prominence of Fifa and the local organising committee in our city. |
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Attention at last being paid to wasteful spending of provincial funds
A MAP showing the nine provinces was published in the Mail and Guardian in the early days of democracy that labelled the Eastern Cape “Chaotica”, a not totally unfair description, given the state of the province as it sought to amalgamate the former Transkei and Ciskei homelands with the Cape Provincial Administration, and plethora of education and health departments that were a hangover from apartheid and the tri-cameral parliament. |
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Zuma trip a tale of opportunities lost
IT should have been a moment of triumph. A Zulu, coming from the land subjugated by the British in the 1879 war, standing as an equal before the monarch and leaders of the former colonial power. Instead it has been a shambles, overshadowed by the recent scandals that have surrounded President Jacob Zuma. The media slanging match is an accurate barometer of what is going on, with the stinging criticism of Zuma being countered by a reactive patriotism insisting that they leave our president alone. |
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Focus on bad news distorts reality
I HAD the pleasure of taking a visiting American professor and his family on a tour of Soweto last Sunday. I hope I did a good job of giving them a feel for the sprawling township, with all its splendour and ugliness that has inspired so many poets, singers and writers. |
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Stand and deliver! Or else ...
I GOT the first “call me” message at 7.40am on Wednesday. The second and the third came between 7.50 and 7.55. When I did call, my housekeeper was livid. She, and a taxi full of workers coming to town from in and around Motherwell, were being “held hostage”. Her words. |
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First motor taxis for hire in Bay
The week ending March 5, 1910 – ON Monday morning at 6 o’clock motor cars will ply for hire in the streets of Port Elizabeth. This big step up is being made possible through the enterprise of Messrs D and A Jacobson, the go-ahead carriage proprietors, who have in readiness two fine cars both 16hp, one a “Darracq” and the other a “Star.” |
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Where are honourable party members when cadres willing to kill?
COLUMNIST Justice Malala encourages us to recognise “there are many good people in the government led by President Jacob Zuma” and there are “many honourable” individuals in the ANC. He reminds us how easy it is, when everything around us is falling apart, thanks to the lack of leadership displayed by Zuma and the antics of the likes of Julius Malema, to forget there are such good and honourable individuals both in government and in the ANC. |
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Apartheid may not be law anymore, but its structures are intact
GARTH King, in Weekend Post on February 6, argues there is a new apartheid 20 years after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. In my response to you, sir, and all those who nodded as they read your thoughts and feelings, I will be deaf to the teachings of my leaders Nelson Mandela, George Irvine and Govan Mbeki. |
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