Category Archives: politics

Blade’s Big Words

By 6000 | 6000 | June 15, 2011

You know how it is. You emerge from the lab, having metaphorically flung all that you possess at the TB growing in there and you need a coffee. And while the kettle is boiling, you glance at Monday’s newspaper, dozing casually on the tea room table and you catch sight of Blade Nzimande’s outburst which [...]

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Shaik: In of uit?

By 6000 | 6000 | June 13, 2011

Incoming from bizcommunity.com: Draftfcb Cape Town ‘Shaiks’ things up in the Mother City with this proactive piece it recently developed for Die Burger to emphasise the newspaper’s pay-off line, ‘Praat Saam’, which loosely translates as ‘join the conversation’. Posters of convicted fraudster, Schabir Shaik, who has been in and out of jail a number of [...]

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Day off

By 6000 | 6000 | May 19, 2011

With Mrs 6000 away on conference in warmer climes, visitors from overseas in the lab and a 4 hour long tantrum of utterly spectacular proportions from the smallest child, it seemed entirely reasonable to take a brief time-out. With Local Government Election results coming in, it’s not like anyone would have read anything I had [...]

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He’s even got the best poster…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 17, 2011

So said ANC Provincial Secretary Songezo Mjongile of his party’s mayoral candidate for Cape Town, Tony Ehrenreich. Sadly, Mjongile was referring to the ANC poster of dear Tony, in which he has an obviously forced smile and looks rather creepy as a result. But COSATU have also released a poster of the man, which I [...]

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Cold fronts and warm klaps

By 6000 | 6000 | May 9, 2011

Ah, the Cape winter. Bringing with it days of endless sunshine and temperatures in the low to mid twenties. Well, not usually, but that seems to be what’s happening at the moment. The first (and possibly second) of the infamous South Atlantic cold fronts that bring wind, rain, wind and rain to the Mother City [...]

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