Comments on: On reasonable accommodation

By: Brett Nortje

Brett Nortje — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:09:52 +0000

So, anyone going to bring up the 5th wife?

What is quaint, when Sipho your gardener does it, is an anachronism, an embarrassment when our country’s first citizen does it, I say!

(BTW, I’m a huge ‘Big Love’ fan…)

By: Brett Nortje

Brett Nortje — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:01:31 +0000

Why did Louw not do more to hold the ANC to their commitment to surrender their arms caches, given the extreme lengths the godless, shameless ANC is going to now to terrorise elderly white South Africans into handing in their licensed firearms?

According to Maritz Spaarwater the ANC did not surrender one arms cache!

By: Brett Nortje

Brett Nortje — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:57:03 +0000

Which Modise do you mean? The Coega oligarch?

By: Gwebecimele

Gwebecimele — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:13:37 +0000

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=90634

Another good politician who served us well.
Only the good ones are dying.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:33:47 +0000

Maggs, in case you are interested, I for one have never thought that you hate anyone (at least not anyone on this blog). Indeed I think the description of differences of opinion on this blog as ‘hatred’ is too strong for the most part – although I certainly think it fair to say that there is a measure of animosity here.

By: Maggs Naidu

Maggs Naidu — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:20:43 +0000

@ Mpho and Leigh,

For the record, I don’t hate anyone.

Rather the opposite – I enjoy the diversity of views.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:47:38 +0000

Mpho asks why everyone is hating each other right now. Let me kick off by saying that I think this question is a pretty fair one – although it may just deserve mention that chalking up the tension here as hatred is, as regards most instances, perhaps a touch overblown. That is, there does seem to be a deal of animosity here and if it is fair to say that trying to reduce the tension here is an attractive goal, then we would do well to ascertain the causal factors that have given rise thereto.

I reckon that one of the principal causes of this relative tension is that many bloggers do not suspend their loyalties when considering views which run contrary to theirs. That is, it seems to me that one can distinguish between two separate but related objects: the first of which is to defend one’s camp. The second object is to fairly consider positions that contradict one’s own – which obviously necessitates accurately construing those contrary stances and not dismissing them simply because they are contrary. As regards these objects, the regularity at which the former trumps the latter is, in my view, very alarming. And moreover, I think that this phenomenon (which is a fixture not only in the narrow context of this blog but in our society in general) is one of the chief social problems facing our country.

By: Mpho

Mpho — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:05:56 +0000

Peter said: …so as not to offend the sensitive souls on this “bored”

Classic!

Why is everyone hating each other right now?

By: Gwebecimele

Gwebecimele — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:06:39 +0000

It seems as if we are only loosing the good politicians such as Modise, Mhlaba, Manto, Botha who seved us well. Is the Almighty punishing us by ignoring the bad ones and ensuring that we continue to be subjected to their rule?

I hope people like Mandela will outlive this period of denial and when their time come we will be at liberty to tell the truth about them, mostly the good but also the regrets. Long live Madiba!!!

By: Brett Nortje

Brett Nortje — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:04:40 +0000

Do you see though that rights and permission/official consent are oxymoronic?