Tag Archives: Thabo Mbeki

Mourning Manto

By 6000 | 6000 | December 17, 2009

Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang passed away yesterday. While foreign readers might not know who she is (or was), she will be well known to anyone with a connection to South Africa. They will know her as the AIDS-denialist Health Minister who associated with quacks and never lived up to her promise upon taking office that she would [...]

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There’s talk of emigration in the air

By 6000 | 6000 | November 10, 2009

Remember when we used to hear that at all the dinner parties, the braais, on the television and in the papers? The ZumaRumas™. The dangers of another ANC government. Chasing the whites out of the country. Murdered in our beds. How South Africa was going to become “another Zimbabwe”. I never did get a firm date for any [...]

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Whites want Zuma in now!

By 6000 | 6000 | September 23, 2008

In an extraordinary show of solidarity with ANC President Jacob Zuma, a poll today* suggests that a huge number of white South Africans want JZ to become President of the country as soon as possible. While this may come as a surprise to many political analysts, there is a very simple explanation: pronunciation. It seems [...]

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All change…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 22, 2008

So he was pushed to the very edge and now he’s jumped. Well, I say “jumped”: actually, it was more of a dignified step. Mbeki – gone: “Butchered”, no less. Yes, it’s big news, but it’s not bad news. It’s not even unexpected news after the Nicholson ruling on the Zuma case. Scandals, allegations, divisions, resignations: [...]

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