Do say: “We’re putting you just down the corridor from Her Majesty.”
Don’t say: “You do know she and Philip don’t share a bedroom?”
- The Guardian Pass notes column on President Jacob Zuma’s stay-over at Buckinham Palace
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Julius Malema: “I am not even rich… I am the poor. I am paid by the ANC… I do not have any business interests.
Debora Patta: “Do you only get money from ANC?”
Julius Malema: “Yes”
Debora Patta: “There is no other business interests?
Julius Malema: “The ANC is paying me very well.”
One of the key achievements of our Congress was precisely to single out in debates and resolutions the central threat to the unity and programme of our Alliance. In particular, our Congress singled out what we called “Kebble-ism” – namely, a dangerous axis between unscrupulous business people (black and white) on the one hand, and [...]
It is a sad day for South Africa when the very bedrock foundation of society, the family, is redefined by a court. This ruling [sanctioning same-sex marriage] totally undermines marriage as we know it and the cherished formation of healthy, loving families. – Pastor Ray McCauley who has just announced that he is divorcing his [...]
Not to follow the West is to fall behind; to copy it is to lose one’s soul. To be a Turk, Pamuk suggests, is to feel always already defeated. – Adam Shatz in a review of Orhan Pamuk’s new novel “The Museum of Innocence” published in the The London Review of Books
Granting them [Schabir Shaik and Eugene de Kock] presidential pardons will create a perception that the politically connected can get away with everything. This is more like condoning serious crimes and it is going to make a fight against crime a lot harder. – Stephen Friedman in The Citizen
These elements of BEE capital have been exploring a class axis between themselves and the great mass of marginalized, alienated, often unemployed black youth. The material glue of this axis is the politics of patronage, of messiahs, and its tentative ideological form is a demagogic African chauvinism. Because of its rhetorical militancy the media often [...]
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing in the face of evil and injustice…. The appointment of Adv Menxi Simelani to the high office of National Director of Public Prosecutions calls us to ask difficult questions: do we honour President Jacob Zuma or do we honour justice? [...]
In the last year and especially the last few weeks, following the speeches of President Jacob Zuma and Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi, state-supported AIDS denialism has been destroyed. If [Rian] Malan had any shame, he would have stayed out of the public light after supporting an ideology responsible for the deaths of hundreds of [...]
The Black Management Forum and the ANC Youth League have lined up to accuse Godsell and the Eskom board of racism; the state-owned enterprises have become a “slaughterhouse” for black professionals bemoans the BMF. On the other hand, and to its enormous credit, you have Cosatu (in the person of Zwelinzima Vavi) defending Godsell and [...]
