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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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More election confusion

By 6000 | 6000 | April 21, 2011

After yesterday’s election confusion over whether or not the ANC “can” win Cape Town in next month’s Municipal Elections, that same party have made great inroads in not winning the Tlokwe (Potchefstroom) Municipality by regrettably (or not, possibly) failing to register candidates in seven wards there: A member of the ANC’s provincial executive committee (PEC) [...]

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Election confusion

By 6000 | 6000 | April 20, 2011

With the municipal elections just 4 weeks away, the ANC have launched a new tactic to confuse the local electorate into voting (presumably) for them. A couple of weeks ago, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe admitted that the party had no chance of winning the Cape Town Municipality from the incumbent DA: At first, I thought that this was [...]

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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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