Category Archives: politics

Private Eye on shale gas

By 6000 | 6000 | October 20, 2011

South Africa isn’t the only country to have potentially economy-changing amounts of shale gas underneath it. The UK has some too. According to the usually politically-left In The Back section of Private Eye magazine: Cuadrilla, the gas exploration company drilling for shale gas in Lancashire, has announced its discovery of 200 trillion cubic feet of gas – a [...]

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That Biased Cover

By 6000 | 6000 | October 17, 2011

The Big Issue isn’t a magazine that I read very often. Our political standpoints are far from aligned and while I’m obviously aware of the good work that they do in assisting the homeless, I’m rarely interested in the content and politics of their articles. This month was different, however.  This month featured opposing columns on [...]

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Fed up

By 6000 | 6000 | September 15, 2011

I remarked the other day that recently, SA politics has become depressingly depressing. Far too much foolishness and sabre-rattling from individuals elected to serve the population. Far too much emphasis on race and racism, sex and sexism, this-ism and that-ism. Far too much jumping to conclusions. Far too little actually sitting down, talking to each [...]

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“BraaiDay” song set to take SA by storm

By 6000 | 6000 | September 7, 2011

Yeah, yeah – whatever. IMHO, this is amusing and deserves more exposure so I am exposing it. Not that anyone outside the Republic will understand the nuances of the song, but so what? Herewith “Derick Watts and the Sunday Blues” [sic] and their rendition of Braaiday:   Of course, “Braai Day” is actually held each year [...]

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Watch your cheese

By 6000 | 6000 | August 22, 2011

After the young firebrands such as Malema and Shivambu have had their say, in steps “oily creature“ Andile Lungisa, ex deputy-Pres of the ANCYL and now chairman of the National Youth Development Agency, with his loud words and hot air. Well, mainly hot air, anyway. In a speech at the Black Management Forum young professionals’ summit in [...]

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