Tag Archives: sensationalist media

Zuma’s Spousal Budget – Calm Down!

By 6000 | 6000 | March 17, 2010

Huge uproar around South Africa today as it emerged last night that the country pays a “massive” R15.5m per year to support President Jacob Zuma’s three wives. According to Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane, the money is spent on: “…personal support staff – secretary and researcher – domestic air travel and accommodation, and international air [...]

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After months of negativity

By 6000 | 6000 | February 28, 2010

As I sit here by the braai, with a locally-brewed wife and beer by my side, I am filled with hope, positivity and optimism about the future here in SA. And, for once, it seems I’m not the only one. After a wholly-unsolicited ‘I’m going out of my way to tell your viewers this’ quote [...]

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Jumping to conclusions

By 6000 | 6000 | December 8, 2009

Once again, the sensationalist media is to blame for the wholly uncalled-for outcry over the tragic story of Thembisa Nikelo whose feet were amputated at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital after they became infected when she was brought into hospital with burns on her hands. As a healthcare professional, I recognise that these sort of tragic [...]

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The FIFA World Cup draw – a warning

By 6000 | 6000 | November 24, 2009

Let the moaning begin. Eh? But yes, because Cape Town is going to be hosting the World Cup 2010 draw on Friday 4th December and there’s going to be a party. And they’re going to shut a few roads to make sure that the partygoers don’t get flattened by… you know… cars and stuff. There’s [...]

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The Times they aren’t a-changin’

By 6000 | 6000 | October 8, 2009

The pisspoor Times newspaper today shouts from the rooftops (or at least the streetlight poles) that an SA woman has “pulled a Huntley”, suggesting that she – like much-documented all-round nice guy and alleged racially-motivated crime victim, Brandon Huntley - has garnered refugee status in a foreign land claiming that the black people in South Africa are [...]

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