The thing about Koffi Annan’s recent statement on Kenya was the sense one got of his “finger wagging”. Being a career diplomat he obviously did not do it literally but you got the clear meaning of it from the tone of his remarks. In an interview with the BBC, Annan remarked that Kenya’s “external relations could be...
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SAA needs another bail-out. The market-oriented commentators are livid. How, they ask, can it be reasonable for a country like South Africa to continue to pay for an unprofitable airline. A country like South Africa, is exactly the point. Because South Africa is a country with means and opportunity. An awful lot of commentators seem...
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Youth Day 2012 in South Africa was thoroughly hijacked by the education activists. June 16th was about more than education access. Sure, education was, and still is, an important issue but the contribution of youth to the liberation of South Africa had to do with a whole lot more than just schools – it had to do with the bigger...
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A few weeks ago, Swaziland was reaching the point of collapse. The country has been firmly heading for collapse for a while, with pensions cancelled, HIV/AIDS medication running out and schools closing due to lack of funds. But a few weeks ago it seemed they were hovering over the edge after the state announced that it could not pay...
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When last were you, when addressing a problem with your printer or shiny new Apple junk-Mac, patched through to a call-centre in Alexandra? Numerous of those dreaded service-related calls have resulted in me being patched through to scripted Indians, incomprehensible Filipinos, and angry Glaswegians, but never to a cheerful...
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When considering the previous post on South Africa’s problem with poverty, it is important to bear in mind that this war not only manifests in the form of police brutality, but in other, more ‘passive aggressive’ ways as well. It seems that in South Africa a poor person, by virtue of being poor- gives up many rights that...
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