Category Archives: this is south africa

Alastair Campbell in SA

By 6000 | 6000 | March 29, 2011

Lucky us. Tony Blair’s PR (spin) man was in town (fortunately not this one) to chat to government communicators about communicating government issues. And that alone should set alarm bells ringing amongst the population of South Africa. But it was one of the lines from his presentation as reported in the Cape Times that got [...]

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Fracking follow-up

By 6000 | 6000 | March 29, 2011

Arguing over whether people actually read stuff before commenting on it (they don’t) is so last week, and thus it’s time to add a couple more thoughts from my fracking post, which was ever so trendy (like Lewis Pugh was last week). Firstly, there were a couple (literally two) objections to my use of the [...]

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Time out

By 6000 | 6000 | March 27, 2011

Today was all about family time and stepping away from the hate mail and threats from environMENTALists after the post that none of them read about stuff that none of them read. I’ll reply to the comments there tomorrow. The emails have already been discarded. Sunset this evening was a nice one. So nice in [...]

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Do some fracking reading

By 6000 | 6000 | March 26, 2011

I generally have no issue with people having opinions. The only issue that I occasionally have is when those opinions are poorly considered. When people have simply chosen one side of an argument to be on simply because they think it’s the cool side to be on or because they have read or been told [...]

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Z&G: The End of the Road

By 6000 | 6000 | March 25, 2011

Music post ahead: meaning, apparently, that my Dad will not be reading any further. His prerogative of course, but he’s missing out on Zebra & Giraffe’s latest offering, The End of the Road, supplied here in full for the clamouring multitude of overseas 6000 miles… readers who do choose to lap up South African music [...]

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