It has been quite a hectic few weeks on the legal and political scene and some days I hardly had time to digest it all. I have not had time to thank all the commentators on this Blog who have kept up quite a lively, sometimes very robust and often informative and interesting debate going here. So, thanks! You keep me on my toes and make me think and reflect about my own views. Now if we can only get Mr Malema to reflect on his.
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Quote of the week
May 22, 2012 | 11:57 am“Looking back, I think we have triumphantly avoided being triumphalist. There is no officially commanded art. Artists may be poor but they are free. Freedom of artistic creativity is expressly guaranteed in the constitution, as is freedom of artistic expression. Ours is an admirably open and democratic society. It artists are afraid, it is that they might be regarded by their colleagues and critics as being too politically correct. We take this freedom for granted, which is as it should be. The range and diversity of themes and forms of expression are unlimited; Leading public figures are mimicked and mocked and frequently, if not always, join in the laughter. I feel proud of the maturity of our nation. We are in a strange position. No group is in charge; no section exercises cultural hegemony. The old establishment has lost its hauteur, but no confident and powerful new establishment has emerged to replace it.” – Justice Albie Sachs, Sunday Times, 15 October 2000
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Malema reflect on his views? … Naaah!
Thanks for saying thanks, but please don’t say thanks for me saying thanks for you thanking us.
Thanks but no thanks.
I wonder who choses topics to be discussed in this blog? because all these topics seem to be driven by the third force.
Ah Pierre
You’ve been exposed! YOU are the third force Pierre, it is you!
(For the literalists: I am being sarcastic.)
lindelani, I’ve asked this before, but no-one seems to know the answer – For there to be a ‘third force’, there must be two others (the first and the second). Who or what are the first two forces?
you should know better. you must be kidding me.
“I wonder who choses topics to be discussed in this blog?”
Em, Lindelani, doesn’t this sort of give it away?
This blog deals with political and social issues in South Africa, mostly from the perspective of Constitutional Law. Written by Pierre de Vos
Mpho
My Kenyan friend is convinced lindelani is joking around. I have mixed emotions about the matter.
Does Lindelani work for Investec in Jo’burg or Cape Town? I want to go pay him a visit and I’ll take my mother with me. She will sort that “young turk” and his attitude out!
Is’nt the second force the original bad ass mothers? What on earth happened to them? They don’t get any press. Shame.
Wonder if it is the same lindelani?
www DOT linkedin DOT com/pub/5/436/244
Then my guess would be Jhb.
Surely a true revolutionary will not work for an investment bank? Lindelani et tu third force?
Wessel, soon we will have a fourth force, and a fifth, and a sixth, and … if this is to go on. What troubles me most is that the Lindelani Maseko on linkedin professes to have a legal background, from Wits nogal, and yet has so little understanding of the law (criminal law actually, which might explain it if his legal expertise lies in commercial law, but so does the legal expertise of most of the corrupt officials that lindelani protects so vigorously [e.g., JZ ] lie in commerce, no?).