Voting Day
Great News! It’s Election Day in South Africa, and although we all know who the winners are going to be, a quick perusal of the manifestos and promises of each and every party contesting today’s...
View ArticleBusy Thursday
Yesterday may have been a public holiday, but I had so many tasks stacked up for today that I need another one. Now. So, not much from me here today, except some brief thoughts: 1. The election turned...
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Dead cat
You either love him or you hate him: the current marmite of UK politics is PM-contender Boris Johnson. But this isn’t supposed to be the preamble to a post which will divide my readership, it’s merely...
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Poster
Belatedly sharing this: In response to this: Just a quick reality check for anyone down here at the bottom of Africa who thinks that we are in any way important globally.
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Political hysteria
It’s election time in the UK, and I’m really glad I’m not there. If the hysteria and hypocrisy on social media is anything to go by (and to be fair, it’s probably not), it must be an absolute crapfest...
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#TrollingTheGuardian
Not really moving on from my angry rant about political hysteria comes the wonderful twitter hashtag #TrollingTheGuardian. An open opportunity to take the piss out of their columnists who, by way of...
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That’s the thing about democracy…
…it’s all well and good until actually, not enough people agree with your point of view. If you’d have looked at social media for the last few weeks, you’d have seen a near non-stop barrage of...
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After a period of reflection…
…the Labour leadership think they’ve worked out why they lost the election: And if they and their supporters continue to feel that way, they’re already well on track to losing the next one too.
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Day 32 – Freedom Day
It’s Freedom Day in South Africa today. No-one is allowed to leave their house. Has anyone paged Alanis Morissette?
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Day 62 – A bizarre decision
Last night, the President announced that from June 1st, religious gatherings of up to 50 people would be permitted again. I’m going to get straight in there and suggest that this is a stupid, populist...
View ArticleDay 224 – No-one missed anything
I haven’t written a blog post today, because I’ve been chasing about all over the place. Fortunately, there is an election thing happening somewhere overseas, and so I don’t think anybody noticed my...
View ArticleDay 333 – 1984
If you choose to believe some people, we are currently living in 1984 – not the year (some of us have been through that already) – the George Orwell novel in which the population is controlled by Big...
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Day 398 – Broken Clock
I’m no fan of the our local rag the Cape Times, but even though it misses the mark on most everything, even a broken clock is right twice a day (unless it’s a digital clock, in which case, probably...
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Day 585 – Municipal Election day
It is, as you may have gathered from the title above, Municipal Election day in South Africa. A great day to avoid social media. (OK, that’s every day but especially so today.) Gotta love politics....
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Day 587 – No overall winner, many overall losers
Elections aren’t actually a zero sum game. I mean, in numbers, they might appear so, but when translated into actual meaning, obviously things can change drastically. Because as soon as any one of...
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Day 588, part 2 – Does advertising work? – a comprehensive study
I was over on Robben Island last week, on a trip well-documented on this blog. Robben Island doesn’t have many residents: it does vary depending on what’s going on on the island , but probably fewer...
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Day 601 – All going as well as predicted
Remember the elections a couple of weeks ago? They were (mostly) an unmitigated disaster, with a lot of hung municipalities across the country. I said then that rather than this being an exciting, new...
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Day 602 – Democracy at work
More from this story. Pretty clear stuff here… But then, suddenly yesterday… Ta-dah! Surely this change of heart is solely due to compromises on policies and outcomes leading to better service...
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