October 2011
18 posts
RT @TimMontgomerie: Every Tory MP should know that 72% of their grassroots members want them to vote FOR today’s referendum motion http: …
RT @SarahDuff: RT @GetawayMagazine: Village weddings, roadside markets and Malawi gin: @SarahDuff & @JoburgLisa explore #malawiinamini h …
RT @HodaAH: #Tunisia takes the lead again and goes to the poll. friend said half joking ” tomorrow we will know whether we r secular or …
The UK should be profoundly ashamed for granting asylum to Zanu PF torturer - http://t.co/WbkwDBG2.
RT @Queen_UK: One’s only been away for a few days and Alex Salmond is calling for Scottish independence. Pack it in moonbeam. Regards, Q …
Run out of “Downton Abbey” to watch. Boo :(
So. Another formerly oil-rich despot bites the dust in large part due to western intervention. Who’s next??
RT @Cherryflava: RT @go4wordPR: From the @volvo_oceanrace making a stop in Cape Town there is a R280m contribution to the Cape Town economy.
RT @CapeTown_Girl: Fav fashion photographer David Sessions has a new website. Love the shots with SA model Lauren Marshall - stunning ht …
RT @jilliancyork: This is seriously one of the best anti-stupid copyright laws campaigns EVER. - http://t.co/XKgjtFMW
RT @JimMacMillan: Jewish news network to broadcast from tomorrow http://t.co/Vbs1CPAJ
RW Johnson has got it wrong →
I have always held RW Johnson’s insights in great regard. However, his latest article is simply a personal agenda masquerading as public analysis. It does not reflect well on him or on his status…
Whether it’s Come Dine With Me or #OccupyJSE — are South Africans increasingly incapable of doing anything original?
RT @geoffreyyork: Unbelievable. Rush Limbaugh defends the LRA as “Christians” and alleges that Obama wants to “wipe out the Christians” …
RT @TheAtlantic: When people talk about a no-fly zone in #Libya, this is what they really mean http://t.co/JgwGkK0D via @CFR_org
Charli XCX’s “Stay Away”… there’s always a song to perfectly match your mood — http://t.co/nbSUvAne
RT @TheAtlantic: HIV patients are expected to live 15 years longer thanks to new retrovirals http://t.co/3bgaGnyv #StudyOfTheDay
RT @mashable: BlackBerry Outage Spreads to U.S. & Canada - http://t.co/hQYeE5ts
August 2011
6 posts
RT @carienduplessis: Cronin was fined recently for a car he doesn’t own any longer but used to own. the deputy minister of transport. ho …
RT @joshjordaan: Haha! RT @RefilWest: Have u seen the new Olympic logo? *slides off ergonomic office chair in fit of laughter* http://lo …
RT @nclark_iht: RT @aviationweek: #Airbus versus #Boeing: Where Things Stand After @AmericanAir Orders http://bit.ly/qVui3M
The ANC’s new election slogan? →
RT @MarianneThamm: Nature hates a vacuum. Julius Malema exists where Jacob Zuma does not.
How to become famous: just start shouting http://t.co/iw8YRBT
July 2011
3 posts
RT @DA_News: Press Statement: FDI Slump: South Africa needs to be open for investment in greenfield and infrastructure projects http://b …
GOP Antitax Dogma Endangers the Country, says Niall Ferguson - Newsweek http://t.co/vNvbFix
RT @TheAtlanticWire: In Apple’s app store e-reader battle, everyone loses http://theatln.tc/olGJYS
August 2010
4 posts
In London, a little patch of South Africa →
Visit the British Museum and you’ll encounter the incongruous dazzle of Namaqualand daisies appearing in front of the museum’s majestic grey columns.
The forecourt’s wondrous array of plants forms…
Impressions of Africa: history and identity... →
“Impressions of Africa: Money, metals and stamps”, an exhibition at the British Museum till February next year, offers a fascinating prism through which continent’s history, ideologies…
July 2010
2 posts
ANC betrayal of Madiba’s media tolerance →
The ANC is ratcheting up its opposition to the media’s ability to hold government and society to account. This much is evident in its desire to set up a media tribunal (a censorship office by any…
Why this pale male is shutting up (for a little... →
Six weeks ago I touched down in London: a born-and-bred Cape Town boy about to start a new job in another country.
While the online smorgasbord of Politicsweb, the Mail & Guardian and …
June 2010
4 posts
Politicsweb - Top stories - Commercial farmers... →
Politicsweb - Top stories - The Khayelitsha toilet... →
Politicsweb - Top stories - Our municipalities are... →
MDC activists suffer and die alone →
May 2010
8 posts
Ideas must trump race for democracy to survive →
DA leader Helen Zille neatly sums up the underlying challenge to the sustainability of South Africa’s democracy in “SA Today”, her weekly newsletter:
Breaking the racial logjam is essential for…
Ethiopia: Government Repression Undermines Poll |... →
5FM broadcasts Malema’s racist rants… as “music” →
Driving home from the airport early this morning, I thought I had gone back to sleep and was dreaming when, from the interminable “mix” concocted by 5FM’s DJ Euphonic, I heard the voice of Julius…
Politicsweb - Top stories - M&G regrets harm... →
Thousands of Carats of Diamonds Being Smuggled Out... →
Politicsweb - Top stories - We`re going to destroy... →
Politicsweb - Top stories - Zuma must act on ANC... →
Cape Town 'at crossroads over toilets' - Mail &... →
April 2010
24 posts
BusinessDay - PAUL HOFFMAN: ‘Strange alchemy’... →
BusinessDay - MESHACK MABOGOANE: Songs used as... →
RT @texasinafrica: Israel bans the iPAD: http://bit.ly/96lCxb
How corruption sustains the ANC – and is killing... →
Official opposition leader Helen Zille’s latest weekly newsletter offers up an essential analysis of why corruption within the ANC is endemic and how its deep, poisonous tentacles are steadily…
Business Report Blog » Take your Q: Zimbabwe’s... →