Is this really the best South Africa can do?
Nothing to do with sport, or blogging, although I’m sure that the phrase will have been used many times in these contexts. No, while I am uploading photos from LAST weekend, and indeed this weekend, I...
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But… How…?
As I write, the results from yesterday’s national and provincial elections are beginning to come through. “It’s early days”, as every TV and radio commentator has been repeatedly telling us, but at the...
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Jimmy
Jimmy Somerville is Scottish and he has a new single coming out shortly (spoiler: it’s VERY Jimmy Somerville). Also, Scotland is voting on independence today. Thus, it comes down to 6000 miles… to...
View ArticleJames Blunt to Chris Bryant
It’s open letter time again… 2015 is election year in the UK and it’s going to be awfully tight. The politicians, lawd bless ’em, will stop at nothing to get an extra few votes in the bag. However,...
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Tuesday Ephemera
Apparently, this is the third Tuesday ephemera post I’ve done, as you may have noticed from the URL above. Evidently, after the chaos and panic of Mondays (they always seem to surprise people, don’t...
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D&G
I saw this tweet this morning: Southern Scotland is starting to look a little blue in our #GE2015 forecast: http://t.co/FbkC8IWXS0 pic.twitter.com/KhPvlxmltH — FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) April...
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Freedom
Ages (one year) before Mel Gibson did his thing in a kilt, although some time after Bill Wallace allegedly shouted the same stuff, came 1994 and South Africa’s first democratic elections, as today’s...
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Election faces
I think this sums things up. On an unexpectedly good night for the Conservative party, it looks like the end for Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and (possibly even, at the time of writing) Nigel Farage....
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Right or fair?
The whining continues on Facebook: The Tories won with 24% of the total electorate and yet have the power to govern with 100% – how can that possible be right or fair? I was going to pass comment on...
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OK (KE)
Great news for Greek communists everywhere. You no longer have to make that onerous decision as to which of the Greek communists you’re going to support. Yes: The KKE (Marxist-Leninist) Party and the...
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Malemaville
News from the far North East of the country, and the Economic Freedom Fighters final pre-election rally in Polokwane, the report on which contained this quote from an enthusiastic fan of the boys in...
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Things Mmusi (actually) said
Much mirth and merriment yesterday as DA leader Mmusi Maimane told us all how “he voted for Mandela” back in the 90s. Trouble is, Mmusi was only 13 in the only presidential election in which Nelson...
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It’s Election Day
Oh joy! The Municipal Elections 2016 to be exact. And, for just about the first time since 1994, we could be looking at some big changes. Always a politically active country, South Africa is not a...
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Done
I’m finished. Someone call a doctor. My sides have split. This then, is the response of the official ANC twitter account to their defeat in Port Elizabeth and their utterly dismal showings in...
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Destroying Donald Trump
I’m no fan of Donald Trump. Just putting that up there nice and clear before the hate mail starts coming in. “Don’t @ me”. Save your pixels; save your bandwidth. I’m no fan of Hillary Clinton either,...
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State Capture Report
Has our state been captured? Have our President and Government been acting to improperly benefit “others”? Find out here [PDF, 2.65MB] Spoiler: It’s basically a yes and a yes.
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How utterly terrible is Hillary Clinton?
I’m no fan of the indestructible Donald Trump. But honestly, how utterly terrible is Hillary Clinton? I say this because virtually everywhere I look, I’m repeatedly informed what a wicked, despicable,...
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Don’t blame Donald
Some of the adjectives used to describe Donald Trump in the lead up (and now aftermath) of the US Election have been… “choice”, shall we say? But what if there was a hidden side to President Elect...
View ArticleZuma on Trump
All-round nice guy and democratically elected President of the Republic of South Africa says “well done” to all-round nice guy and democratically elected President of the United States of America. I...
View ArticleWLP
I’m not putting this on here for the reasons you might already be thinking of. I did hear it on the radio yesterday, and that was definitely for those reasons, but I’m steering clear of all that stuff...
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