Category Archives: this is south africa

BBC, baby!

By 6000 | 6000 | May 22, 2008

As Thabo Mbeki finally pays heed to everyone’s pleas to bring in the army in order to try and quell the xenophobic violence which has flared up across South Africa, the BBC News website quotes 6000 miles… amongst others in its 21st May article, SA Bloggers want end to violence. Fame at last. I am also available for [...]

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Return of the Daxk

By 6000 | 6000 | May 21, 2008

Daxk is back with a belter of a comment that sums up many SA expat’s feelings perfectly. Perhaps. Aaah yes,6K,I really dont understand what the fuss is about,its been going on for about a week and they’ve only killed about 25,going back to the famous Crime Blog post,and the normal 50 murdered per day on average,its hardly going [...]

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The Umshini Wam Plan

By 6000 | 6000 | May 19, 2008

Further information is coming out of the townships where xenophobic violence has erupted – namely that those individuals perpetrating the attacks on foreign nationals and immigrants have allegedly been singing Jacob Zuma’s infamous Umshini wam “theme” song. Cue another ZumaRuma™. Zuma is unimpressed: He said he had heard that people attacked others while singing the song Umshini [...]

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South Africa’s Xenophobic Attacks

By 6000 | 6000 | May 19, 2008

We, more than many other nations, should know better. We should know better because we have just emerged from more than three centuries of the horror of settler colonialism and apartheid… This madness has to stop. There is simply no justification for attacking people simply because they are not South African nationals. Editorial, City Press [...]

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Sensationalist reporting is back!

By 6000 | 6000 | May 14, 2008

Today’s Cape Times runs a front page story on the a problem which put the Table Mountain Cableway out of action for a whole 35 (thirty-five) minutes yesterday afternoon. Woo. [link] Yet, despite the fact that there were a total of no injuries, no snapped cables, no plunging tourists, merely a blown fuse, we get 1000 words [...]

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