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04 March 2010 00:56

The South African Patriotic Alliance...for right thinking people

Why we need a right wing.

JOHANNESBURG - The term "right wing" has all sorts of dreadful associations in South Africa. It conjures up images of bearded men in tight khaki shorts getting into their battered old Mercs to go and fight for Lucas Mangope, that exemplary African leader so beloved of his people. Or men with blowtorch eyes who whip crowds up to a frenzy with their fiery rhetoric and then fall off horses. Or groups of white Julius Malemas in boy scout uniforms guarding their leaders. Right wing South Africans love to dress up in uniforms (khaki has long been the fashionable colour) and form secret societies or elite military wings with supposed specialist skills. Intellectual prowess isn't something that one associates with the right wing in this country. Which is hardly surprising because those who asso...

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04 March 2010 00:50

Bullard v Avusa match report

David Bullard provides an update to Moneyweb readers.

JOHANNESBURG - Many of you have expressed interest in an update on the long running legal fight for justice between me and the Sunday Times (Avusa). We did go to court on February 8 and I offered what I thought was an ‘elegant exit" strategy to them. Since I no longer wanted to be re-instated I proposed they donate six months salary to a charity of my choice and we would shake hands and walk away. They responded that they didn't have any intention of donating a cent to charity in my name so we went to trial. My evidence was led by my counsel and then I was cross examined by their counsel on whether I could truly be said to be an employee simply because I had worked there for 14 years, had a desk, business cards, parking, UIF and PAYE deductions and was answerable to a boss....

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25 February 2010 00:58

Julius Malema the business wunderkind?

Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.

JOHANNESBURG - As Jay Leno once remarked, "Politics is Hollywood for ugly people", and he didn't even know of Julius Malema at the time he made the remark. The thieving politicians in the UK have always been on the make but they try to do it in ways that they hope will not attract attention. They fiddle their expenses and then look all wide eyed and innocent when they're caught claiming for a house they no longer own or charging the taxpayer for dredging the moat around the family pile. Just as movie stars have access to vast amounts of money to indulge their every whim, so do politicians. The difference is that Hollywood stars have talent and, arguably, earn their money while most politicians have very little talent and therefore having to resort to stealing money meant for other thing...

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