Category Archives: politics

SARS – where is your money going?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 24, 2009

Postage, mainly. Thirteen letters where one would have done The South African Revenue Service (the equivalent of the Inland Revenue or the IRS) actually has a pretty good reputation over here. They rarely get stuff wrong, they get things done quickly, quietly, efficiently. And then they give all the money (all R627,692.8 million of it) to [...]

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Keep dreaming, Helen!

By 6000 | 6000 | February 19, 2009

Incoming on twitter: @JacquesR Zille calls on JZ to step down: http://tr.im/gAkc. The comments after the article are scary (besides mine, of course). And yes, she did: Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has called on her ANC counterpart Jacob Zuma to step down as his party’s presidential candidate in the coming elections. “Put your ambitions [...]

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George Bush is Dead

By 6000 | 6000 | February 11, 2009

Well – not really. But if you were watching the pisspoor South African Sky-wannabe eTV News (or more especially, their annoying little rolling banner thing across the bottom of the screen) then you would have seen those exact words on your TV. The “misbroadcast” happened when a technician pressed the “broadcast live for transmission” button [...]

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Visa woes

By 6000 | 6000 | February 10, 2009

Between them, the UK Government, the Department of Home Affairs in South Africa and the British Consulate in Pretoria have conspired against me. I’m not sure in what proportions the blame should be meted out, but I’m going to have a go. In more ways than one.  First off, the UK Government. For once, I think they [...]

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Malema speaks sense

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2009

Surely some mistake? But no. After the latest in the Jacob Zuma trial, as the case was put back (again) to August 2009 – significantly on the other side of the general election -  our friend Julius said:   When Zuma comes back to court in August he will come back as the president of [...]

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