Category Archives: politics

Road Closures for the Opening of Parliament 2011

By 6000 | 6000 | February 7, 2011

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when Parliament finally comes back to work after the summer break (noting that the rest of us have been back at least 5 weeks already) and JZ stands up and tells us how many jobs he intends to create this year. Then we can all laugh heartily [...]

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Now Ehrenreich targets “racist fires”

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2011

After his extraordinary claims that the new Cape Town cycle lanes were racist: Cosatu is outraged that the DA in the Western Cape and the City of Cape Town prioritises bicycle lanes for the white wealthy citizens, while poorer communities on the Cape Flats are subjected to over-crowded and unsafe public transport Cosatu provincial secretary [...]

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Just another ANCYL press release

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2011

I swear, you can’t make this sort of thing up. But someone does. This one goes out to all those overseas people who will think that it was me that made it up. First came this, from ANCYL President Julius Malema at the pre-opening party of the ZAR nightclub in Cape Town: Helen Zille will [...]

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Colours to the mast…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 31, 2011

With the 2011 Municipal Elections not far away (don’t forget to register to vote this weekend, folks) the election machinery of our erstwhile political parties is once again being dusted off after a couple of years in the shed and already the first posters (albeit registration posters, rather than election posters) are being blown off the [...]

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Proceeding well

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2011

It’s back to school for many South African kids this week. Not for Alex and his friends in Cape Town, of course. As ever, the Mother City is a little slow to catch up and our lot only go back next week, but Gauteng and the inland provinces are back already. And how. Stories of [...]

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