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PEARLS BEFORE SWINE! No person or group of people owns our freedom. That must be crystal clear. Our freedom belongs to the citizens of this country, collectively. So, we are all free to do or say whatever we want, within the rules, of course. But for those of us who were physically and practically involved in the struggle for liberation; who were harassed by the forces of the regime, arrested and imprisoned; who saw comrades maimed or killed, it hurts to see or hear people doing or saying things that seek to devalue that freedom... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 07 May 2012 by Administrator ARE BLACKS REALLY FOOLS? For a number of reasons, musicians just like writers, choose to give their work specific titles, some of which may be deliberately provocative. This is sometimes done to convey a variety of messages, emotions or even the state of mind of the writer at the time of writing. This is exactly what the South African hip-hop artist, Siyabonga Metane, also known as Slikour in entertainment circles, did when he recently took the bold step of releasing a song titled “Blacks Are fools”. And not surprisingly, his song has sparked an incessant barrage of emotionally charged reactions, both for and against this song... Read more • 1 Comments Posted on 02 May 2012 by Administrator YOUNG, BRIGHT AND FEMALE A few days ago, I went to a graduation dinner for a young woman in one of the suburbs of Tshwane. She had just passed her Bachelor of Commerce degree with distinction and her proud father had organized the dinner for her. The mutual admiration between daughter and dad was palpable. When her turn came to say something, she praised her father in glowing terms for single-handedly rearing her and her younger brother. Now, we don’t have many successful male single parents, do we? When the short formal programme started, we were ushered into the house where in one room, several young women, who were introduced as her friends... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 23 Apr 2012 by Administrator AZAPO AT THE CREST OR RIDING THE TROUGH In his article, Thabo Shole-Mashao (City Press, 1 April 2012) is pained by the fact that parties like AZAPO are not occupying centre stage in the country's political life. He bemoans, inter alia, the state of education, culture and the not so well managed economy. He seems to suggest that AZAPO should be a stopgap party. In his two-faced pain of wishing AZAPO away simultaneously hoping AZAPO assumes the stopgap role, Shole-Mashao quotes this stanza of WH Auden's poem Funeral Blues: "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone". This is a poem about a lover who hates to accept that love is coming to an end in a relationship... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 10 Apr 2012 by Administrator SCORING OFFSIDE GOALS I heard on radio news as I was driving on the N1 on Sunday, 1st April 2012, that Taureg rebels, who are fighting for the creation of their own separate state in the north, and their allies, the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA), had overrun the ancient city of Timbuktu in northern Mali. My mind started racing. What does that mean? You see, several years ago, former President Thabo Mbeki paid a state visit to Mali and among other places, toured Timbuktu. He was so impressed by its huge collection of old African scholarly material that dated as far back as the 12th century... Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 10 Apr 2012 by Administrator << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next >> Content Management Powered by CuteNews