Category Archives: politics

Race War Postponed

By 6000 | 6000 | April 9, 2010

The Daily Maverick’s Phillip de Wet has been following events up in Ventersdorp as the funeral of the controversial AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche takes place. The obvious intensity and gravity of the inflammatory situation there was summed up by his recent tweet: While this may all be very amusing, since there has (touch wood) been [...]

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Touch me on my studio

By 6000 | 6000 | April 8, 2010

Much mirth and merriment in South Africa today as footage of André Visagie, Secretary General of the AWB, storming off the set of etv news does the rounds. Alternative video source (starts at 0:31) These sort of funny things are always happening on SA TV. Who could forget the unfortunate “Chairman” Nhlanhla Nene incident, for example? But [...]

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UniteSA

By 6000 | 6000 | April 6, 2010

It seems that these days, all you have to do to get a blog campaign rolling is to stick a five letter word in front of ZA or SA and Bob is the maniacal leader of your neighbouring country. It’s almost tempted me into organising one myself, which would obviously be DrinkZA. I hear that others [...]

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All is calm

By 6000 | 6000 | April 5, 2010

Remember Easter in 2007? No – me neither. But I found a nice sunset picture from back then that I thought might be appropriate for a quick quota photo this evening. It’s quiet, serene, beautiful: calm. South Africa has made it safely and quietly through two days since the death of Eugene Terre’Blanche. It’s a good start. [...]

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What now?

By 6000 | 6000 | April 4, 2010

Even as the Easter Bunny (me) was busy laying bunny tracks and eggs in the back garden at dawn, news was filtering through of the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche. Now, while Eugene was not a terribly nice bloke by any stretch of the imagination, he was still (genetically, at the very least) a human being [...]

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