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• Zuma quietly shafts Mbeki from Zimbabwe mediation role

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 125
  For those of you who didn’t read the fine print this morning, President Thabo Mbeki has been quietly shafted once more by President Jacob Zuma, this time as mediator in the Zimabwean peace process.Mbeki was mediator while president and this continued afterwards. But yesterday it came to a dramatic end with an ...
  6 days ago

• Decoding the very polite redeployment of Her Worship, the mayor

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  HAVING decided to shaft Nelson Mandela Metro Mayor, Nondumiso Maphazi, for governmenace failures, factionalism and general incompetence, the ANC’s spin doctors worked very hard to package the decision.What followed was a masterpiece of the “smiling death” type in which the ANC damned her with faint praise.Some ...
  1 week ago

• Ras Fried Chicken Unplucked wants to cluck the national anthem for the 2010 games

  
  Common Dialogue — Authority: 116
  Pieter Stuurman, a car guard in Randburg says he can do a better job than Ras Dumisani. He admits he also doesn’t know the Xhosa and the English segments of the anthem, but he says he can improvise. So far his version goes something like this: Nkosi soek ’n le plek in Afrika, mal ou pak a mes op Donderdag, yo! ...
  2 weeks ago

• The original Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, translations and other versions

  
  Common Dialogue — Authority: 116
  Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika Classic Xhosa Version The first verse and chorus of this version are the original words composed by Sontonga in 1897. The remaining verses were added in 1927 by Samuel E Mqhayi. Nkosi, sikelel’ iAfrika; Malupakam’upondo lwayo; Yiva imitandazo yetu Usisikelele. Chorus Yihla Moya, Yihla ...
  2 weeks ago

• United Nations Declares 18 July ’Mandela’ Day

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  The United Nations has declared 18 July “Nelson Mandela International Day”, in recognition of the South African anti-apartheid leader’s contribution to peace. A resolution adopted Wednesday by the 192-member world body, also endorsed the commemorations every year starting in 2010 on July 18 – Mandela’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mbalula: Innocent will die in the crossfire of fight against crime

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 125
  THIS just in: Deputy Police Minister, Fikile Mbalula says innocent lives will be lost as police fight crime with lethal force and that’s just one of those things …His exact words, as quoted on Sapa: “In the course of any duty the innocent will be victimised. In this particular situation where you are caught ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gwede Mantashe: Finally someone says something reasonable on Eskom

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  THE ANC’s secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, seems to be the only one out there prepared to lead from the front even if it means standing in the wind blasted out by the populists.His latest comments were on the Eskom crisis and allegations that Bobby Godsell was fulfilling some kind of race-based agenda.“By ...
  3 weeks ago

• Genetic ancestry of Coloured South Africans

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 421
  Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Genetic structure of a unique admixed population: implications for medical research. Patterson N, Petersen DC, van der Ross RE, Sudoyo H, Glashoff RH, Marzuki S, Reich D, Hayes VM. Understanding human genetic structure has fundamental implications for understanding the evolution and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Circumcision Makes the News Again; Read Thando Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man

  
  UKZN Press — Authority: 107
  To say that circumcision, as a facet of the Xhosa initiation ritual, is a cultural lightning rod is to understate the case. Some in the community are dead-set against it; others will go to the furthest extremes to ensure that it happens. The latter scenario played out recently in the Bhisho High Court, where a young ...
  3 weeks ago

• Come Heaven and Hell

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 536
  Realizing that most people have a go-to spot for reading, adding Be Sweet’s boucle mohair throw is a cozy addition to any book nook where extra warmth is needed. Blending fuzzy and nubby with smooth and sleek, we love that it’s fittingly called the Heaven & Hell throw and that it doubles as a shawl if you ...
  3 weeks ago

• South Africa: Home of democracy and hate speech

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 125
  SOUTH Africa, home of Nelson Mandela, brilliant sports teams, incredible natural wonders, the world’s best constitution and hate speech.Hate speech used to be a fringe phenomenon that was ignorable. It is now threatening to overwhelm our public discourse.The latest statement from a Free State youth leader that UFS ...
  5 weeks ago

• From whence the Zulus came and where the Bushmen went

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 542
  It is a constant refrain heard in South Africa that the Zulus and the “black” Africans come from the north. This “fact” is so skewed in the way in which it is used and is poorly understood by most so I wish to clarify a few points about the arrival of the Bantu-speaking Africans in [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Language Excursion “Food & Cuisine”

  
  eatinZ.com — Authority: 134
  
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