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Dan’s PR disaster

By 6000 | 6000 | August 20, 2010

With the second biggest event of the year due to take place in Cape Town this weekend (remember that World Cup thing we did?) and following on from his extraordinary comments over the Makhaza toilet saga, City Mayor Dan Plato has lurched into yet another PR disaster. Helen Zille was always going to be a hard [...]

4 Comments | Tagged athlone, Cape Town, dan plato, helen zille | Also posted in annoying people, this is south africa

One week on

By 6000 | 6000 | August 19, 2010

Just one week ago, I was singing the praises of the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Community Hospital in Durban. And that despite the fact I had to cross a good-natured but vocal picket line to get in: Sadly, it seems that just one week on, the public sector workers strike has turned nasty, with almost unbelievable [...]

| 1 Comment| Tagged IALCH, public sector, strikes, violence | Also posted in annoying people, this is south africa

Mixed messages from PnP et al

By 6000 | 6000 | August 19, 2010

A lot has already been said about the allegedly “proposed” Media Appeals Tribunal (MAT) and the despicable Protection of Information Bill (PIB), not least in that post last week on here. And so it continues with Gareth Ackerman, chairman of local retail giant Pick n Pay weighing in with his opinion: Pick n Pay recognises [...]

4 Comments | Tagged hypocrisy, media tribunal, pick n pay, protection of information bill | Also posted in annoying people, this is south africa

If you want media freedom

By 6000 | 6000 | August 6, 2010

Ah – about time I passed comment on the Sunday Times journalist thing. And by “thing” I mean the arrest of Sunday Times investigative reporter Mzilikazi wa Afrika on Wednesday by the Hawks. Since then, the charges against him have been thrown out, then (possibly) reinstated and he has now been freed on R5,000 bail. [...]

40 Comments | Tagged media tribunal, Mzilikazi wa Afrika, sensationalist press, sunday times | Also posted in annoying people, this is south africa

Helen doesn’t love me anymore

By 6000 | 6000 | July 5, 2010

Oh for a politician with a sense of humour. Or at least one with my sense of humour. It’ll never happen. We had a great time at the game on Saturday. Beers and prego rolls at &Union, heated debate over the Luis Suarez handball, the awesome Cape Town fan mile and then an entertaining, if [...]

5 Comments | Tagged bad curry, helen zille, twitter, World Cup 2010 | Also posted in World Cup 2010, in the news, sport, that's a bit mad, this is south africa

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Category Archives: politics

Dan’s PR disaster

One week on

Mixed messages from PnP et al

If you want media freedom

Helen doesn’t love me anymore

@6000 on twitter

recent entries

post from the past

cash cow

recent comments

what i read