22 February 2010 15:08
JOHANNESBURG -
Public money tenders are to ANC "pols" as baby seal meat is to great white sharks. But one of these two things seems to have come as a surprise to a dozy South African public in the past few days, following the publication, by some heavyweight print newspapers, of leaked information about the supposed business interests of Julius Malema who, at the latest count, was president of the ANC Youth League.
Malema comports himself in an openly bling manner, connected, according to the...
09 February 2010 17:18
JOHANNESBURG -
Jacob Zuma, president of the ANC and South Africa, has touched sensitive nerves here and abroad with his latest peccadilloes; he has inspired common people to scream out for fundamental change. It's one thing being a bedroom vampire, and not being able to get enough from your several wives, but the idea of procreating outside wedlock in a country with the world's highest HIV/Aids infection rate is nauseating, cracked and twisted beyond decent repair.
05 February 2010 13:13
JOHANNESBURG - Indigestion and heartburn are quickly becoming South Africa's most favoured pastimes, as the ANC Youth League continues its crazed and extinction-seeking talk about nationalising the country's mines. This week, the mines minister, Susan Shabangu, who could, at least in theory, also be nauseated by the ongoing tirades, said that nationalisation of mines would "not happen in her lifetime".
05 February 2010 13:13
The ANC Youth League tops the pops in running for 2010's Darwin Awards.
26 January 2010 17:05
How "morally bankrupt and corrupt" is remuneration of parastatal executives?
20 January 2010 16:58
The attack on e.tv's screening of two supposed criminals is horribly bent and grubby.
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