Monthly Archives: April 2009

Look out Zuma!

By 6000 | 6000 | April 3, 2009

OK, so he may have other things on his mind today, but Jacob Zuma must also now face the fact that ex-pats are going to be voting in the April 22nd election, as predicted in 6000 miles… January 27th post. Following court applications by opposition parties (namely the DA and the VF+), the Independent Electoral [...]

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NPA make Zuma announcement

By 6000 | 6000 | April 3, 2009

Sometime today. Possibly. But I have no idea what they’re going to say yet. Really.

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Coconut Crab

By 6000 | 6000 | April 2, 2009

Couldn’t resist. This is great. The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is the largest land-living arthropod in the world and is probably at the limit of how big terrestrial animals with exoskeletons can get under the prevailing conditions. Their body is divided into four regions; the cephalic lobe, forepart, trunk, and opisthosoma. It is a highly [...]

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Fighting ire with fire

By 6000 | 6000 | April 1, 2009

From here, via here. With the G20 protests taking place in London today, Guido takes us back to previous occasions when demonstrators have bitten off more than they could chew: WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail. What they were not prepared for [...]

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