Category Archives: politics

Can you write me off too, please?

By 6000 | 6000 | April 17, 2008

Great news! (if you’re Cuban, that is.) According to this morning’s Cape Times, the South African government has written off a 12-year-old debt owed to it by Cuba for export insurance relating to diesel engines, pesticides, Joost van der Westhuizen promotional mechandise and biltong.   Very generous. Very, very generous in fact, when you hear that the debt [...]

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South Africa’s electricity crisis

By 6000 | 6000 | January 18, 2008

Woo. “Crisis”. There’s a strong word. But yes, that’s what it is. It’s a complicated story, but it boils down to this: years of poor planning and underfunding, coupled with a healthily growing economy simply means that there isn’t enough electricity to go around. And therefore, in order to protect the national grid from damage through [...]

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Glued to their blooming PlayStations

By 6000 | 6000 | December 21, 2007

Look, there’s a serious point in all of this, namely that the “nanny-state”, a lack of decent funding and the constant threat of petty litigation have forced local councils to prevent Britain’s children from… well… “being children” anymore. But fewer, smaller, safer, more expensive playgrounds mean more obese kids and a sorry decline in “those fascinating crusty objects” – [...]

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New dawn for SA?

By 6000 | 6000 | December 21, 2007

As the morning mist cleared over the city of Cape Town this morning, slowly giving way to the African heat, I was driving into work, listening to soundbites of Jacob Zuma’s inaugural address as ANC President yesterday and thinking that the whole mist thing would make a really cheesy start to this “new dawn” post. Suddenly, [...]

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Back to life, back to reality…

By 6000 | 6000 | October 23, 2007

It’s over. And South Africa won it. Which is great news for all concerned. Well, all concerned with South Africa, anyway. National pride is swelling, flags are being flown and… and… well look, that’s actually about it, but that’s just fine. Now – can we get back to normality, please? It’s true. The last couple [...]

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