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• Why 2010 could be an own goal for the Rainbow Nation | Jonathan Steele

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  The ANC is failing poor black South Africans, and next years World Cup will only intensify scrutiny of Zumas regime With the World Cup nearing, 2010 will be South Africa s year. The self-proclaimed Rainbow Nation will receive a rainbow crowd of visitors, the largest and most diverse group of tourists in its ...
  6 days ago

• Darryl Accone Slates SA Lit’s Biography Industry

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 138
  All too often, the cult of personality dammed up what should have been a decade of invigoratingly free-flowing narratives about South Africa’s “big men”, writes the Mail & Guardian’s Darryl Accone - but SA Lit’s biography and memoir industry did produce a few gems over the last ten years. Accone, who ...
  6 days ago

• Former South African President Says a Deal is Possible in Sudan

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has said that it is possible and necessary to conclude a peace agreement on Darfur before Sudan holds general elections in April. Mbeki told the United Nations Security Council on Monday that during a visit to Darfur just over a week ago, a broad spectrum of leaders of ...
  1 week ago

• Hayibo’s Top Xmas Gifts of 2009

  
  Jacana — Authority: 122
  Our favourite stocking stuffers for 2009 are, of course, Jacana books - including the hilarious Best of Hayibo.com . But the writers at Hayibo have other ideas; here are their top gifts for the season: Barack Obama doll, now with super “Spineless” feature Want change you can believe in? Seeing is believing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zimbabwe II

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  Previous events in the sorry saga ; What Rhodesia Can Teach Us about Zimbabwe Zimbabwe politicians reach breakthrough Zimbabwe’s rival leaders Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai reached an agreement on forming committees to oversee human rights, the media and elections. 10 December Mugabe Orchestrated Rape ...
  2 weeks ago

• InMobi grows to be the largest ad network in South Africa

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 144
  InMobi has announced today that it has grown to become the largest mobile advertising network in South Africa with over 650 million mobile ad requests per month! The service offering has also been expanded to other countries in Africa such as Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt which are also beginning to show a significant ...
  2 weeks ago

• UN: Back AU Call for Darfur Prosecutions

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 641
  (New York) - United Nations Security Council members should express strong support for an African Union panels call for justice for victims in Darfur given the consistent failure by the Sudanese government to hold perpetrators of serious crimes accountable, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Political Notebook: A look at the great political photography of Elizabeth Sejake

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 118
  Related posts:Political Notebook: Make that political football with BBK …Political Notebook: So what was that Cosatu congress all about?Political Notebook: Part 2 of my chat with ZapiroPolitical Notebook: Thabo Leshilo on press freedomPolitical Notebook: A video interview with Julius MalemaRelated posts: Political ...
  2 weeks ago

• They feared you

  
  Black Looks — Authority: 523
  Dear StephenYou said, “We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man’s mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zuma is nobody’s puppet

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 491
  As South Africans approached their elections earlier this year, many were apprehensive about the favours that were owed by the then presumptive President Jacob Zuma to the left wing of the ANC, Cosatu, the SA Communist party and the ANC Youth League.Indeed analysts and political observers expressed concerns that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mourning Manto

  
  6000 miles from civilisation... — Authority: 129
  Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang passed away yesterday. While foreign readers might not know who she is (or was), she will be well known to anyone with a connection to South Africa. They will know her as the AIDS-denialist Health Minister who associated with quacks and never lived up to her promise upon taking office ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s an Invasion! South African Writers off to the 2010 London Book Fair in Droves

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 138
  Alert! The London Book Fair may be several months away, but a veritable army of South African writers have already booked their tickets. In several cases, of course, we’re talking bus tickets, because many an SA scribe lives or works in the UK, and won’t have much to do to get to Earl’s Court, where the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr. Beetroot is feeding beetroots

  
  Akin about things too concerning to ignore — Authority: 125
  Dr. Beetroot whose controversial views with that of the then South African President kept HIV/AIDS treatment from serious practical action recently died. Leave Comment Related Entries: A walk of healing Nigeria: Yaraduas health, a truth but not the whole truth A wardrobe of wounds dressings A primer on ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Twitter broke the news about Manto

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 491
  Was news of Manto’s death the Hudson plane crash of South Africa? Did the passing of the controversial former minister of health mark a coming of age of Twitter in this country? While comparisons aren’t entirely neat — the landing of the plane in the river was first reported by eye witnesses, which was not [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Rejoicing over Manto’s death is grotesque

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 491
  The news of the death of former health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang broke on Twitter soon after lunch, and it was fun watching the back-and-forth between the editors and the public as the media frantically searched for someone to confirm the rumours. There was even a moment of drama as some claimed that Manto ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jacob Dlamini on HIV/AIDS and Blaming Thabo Mbeki

  
  Jacana — Authority: 122
  Columnist and author Jacob Dlamini ( Native Nostalgia ) is not short of opinions, and his vervy, punchy delivery makes them hard to ignore. Here is piece he wrote for Business Day about the scourge of South Africa - HIV/AIDS - and the man many want to hold responsible, Thabo Mbeki. It would seem that Dlamini is in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jonny Steinberg: Why have We Made Thabo Mbeki Our National Ogre?

  
  Jonathan Ball — Authority: 115
  The author of Three-letter Plague - which treats, to a certain degree, the effects of Thabo Mbeki’s universally-condemned approach to HIV/AIDS - is suspicious of Mbeki’s relegation to the role of South Africa’s prime villain, and wonders aloud why this might be so: A LITTLE more than a year after his ...
  3 weeks ago

• Conspiracy Theories: The Truth About Aids

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 450
  The AIDS epidemic began in the early 1980s, and it did not take long for the link between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to be found as the cause. When AIDS arrived in the west, particularly in the USA, it spread within certain sections of society the quickest – homosexuals, drug users and the black ...
  3 weeks ago

• Malema and Nzimande are volcanoes. Beneath, the tectonic plates are shifting

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 106
  THE furious dispute that has erupted between the ANC Youth League and the SACP provides more insight into the tensions within the ruling party.These tensions are superficially between youth leader, Julius Malema and the SACP’s Blade Nzimande.They are the volcanoes, evidence that beneath the surface, the tectonic ...
  3 weeks ago

• ANC’s disturbing message to Zanu-PF. Not good.

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 106
  IT passed relatively unnoticed, but it is worth remarking on the ANC’s loving and fraternal message to Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF on Saturday.Zanu-PF re-elected Robert Mugabe for another 5 year term, proving once and for all that the party and the man who has ruined a country and demolished democracy are one ...
  3 weeks ago

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