I have always been a big fan of Xolela Mangcu. Even when I do not agree with him, his columns usually make me think and challenge my preconceived ideas – something a good columnist ought to do. But I must say he had a piece in The Weekender today which made me cringe. Maybe its [...]
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David Bullard’s weird view of press freedom
David Bullard, that pretentious (and previously witty) old colonialist who used to be a columnist for the Sunday Times before he was sacked for writing a deeply insulting and racist column, has launched a scathing attack on fellow columnist and self-proclaimed public intellectual Xolela Mangcu.
Bullard, who is now a staunch defender of President Jacob Zuma, [...]
Give Zuma a chance?
Xolela Mangcu has an interesting column in today’s Business Day on Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, in which he argues that we should give Jacob Zuma a chance as President. (What would we do without the editorial pages of Business Day? Hopefully the rumours about its immenent demise are premature.)
As Mangcu points out:
Over the past [...]
Xolela Mangcu: who are those to be killed?
Xolela Mangcu has written a scathing column in today’s Business Day asking: how did a once proud freedom movement become a party of death? Who, Mangcu wants to know, are those “dark forces” or the “third force” or the “anti-revolutionaries” that will have to be killed. Then he continues:
Let us then move on to consider [...]
Now Mangcu puts in the boot
Xolela Mangcu has a scathing column about the new Thabo Mbeki biography in today’s Business Day entitled, Roberts’ shallow ode reflects obsessions of the age of Mbeki. He hits Roberts where it hurts most, accusing him of being obsessed by what whites think. In effect, he says Roberts is a prisoner of colonialism and therefore [...]
