Everyone has been commenting the South African matric results lately, including the fact that whites outscore blacks in marks and distinctions.
One black columnist doing some soul-searching is The Sowetan’s Sandile Memela. He writes:
"A few days ago I had a conversation with my niece Nomfundo about matric results.
She is a second-year science student at Wits University. She obtained one distinction at a private school in matric.
Nomfundo does not believe that whites have greater intelligence than blacks.
“It is not that whites are smarter. The fact of the matter is that black students are just lazy...
President Jacob Zuma has expressed his solidarity with the government of Zimbabwe on a state visit to that country. Here is his complete speech, as issued by the South African presidency:
27 August 2009
Your Excellency President Robert Mugabe and Mrs Grace Mugabe,
Your Excellency, Vice-President Mujuru,
Honourable Prime Minister; Morgan Tsvangirai
Hon Deputy Prime Ministers
Honourable Ministers;
Members of the Diplomatic Corps;
Distinguished guests;
I would like to thank you, Your Excellency, for your kind words
of welcome.
We further wish to extend our words of gratitude for the warm
and comradely hospit...
It was wicked when assorted neoconservative organs and tools presented anti-war activists such as Cindy Sheehan as something other than what they were. And it is still execrable now that the left-liberal news filters are tarring anti-Obamacare town hall protesters as something other than what they are.
Sheehan's cause was just. She spoke stirringly against Bush's crimes in Iraq. Yet again and again she was dismissed by the neoconservatives as a George-Soros sponsored stooge (the details of that particular conspiracy evade me).
The outcry against state takeover of medicine is in the best of tradi...
Read more...A woman pays her bus fare with 3 trillion in old Zimbabwe dollars - the equivalent of 50 U.S. cents. The collector accepts the brick of neatly folded bundles of a trillion each without bothering to count the notes.
"No one seems to worry, and it works," said the woman, Lucy Denya, a Harare secretary who says she's seen police officers using old notes to board buses.
The Zimbabwe dollar is officially dead. It was killed off in hopes of curbing record world inflation of billions of percentage points, and Zimbabwe has replaced it with the U.S. dollar and the South African rand.
Yet the role of the o...
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If the U.S. weren't already insolvent, I'd say that Obama was bankrupting the country, and sending the health care we have to hell in a handcart, for the ostensible benefit of less than 10 percent of the population. But the U.S. is already in the red, courtesy of the current president and his predecessor.
According to the Census Bureau report, "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007? (p. 20), in 2007, the number of children under 18 years old without health insurance was 8.1 million. Uninsured, non-Hispanic Whites stood at 20.5 million. At 7.4 million, the num...
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When I read the first Associated Press report on the arrest of Louis Henry Gates Jr., it was obvious to me that that particular storm in a teacup woul...
Youth Alliance Calls For Arrest Of 'Political Conspirators'![]() Those involved in the "political conspiracy" against ANC president Jacob Zuma must be arrested, the Progressive Youth Alliance said on Thursday."We call for the arrest of 'the big man in ... Southern Africa | Rudi Prinsloo | Friday, 10 April 2009 Read more |
Zimbabwe Farm Violence Worries Investors![]() Finance Minister Tendai Biti, hunting for money to pay the government's day-to-day expenses, raised concerns Wednesday that violence and difficulties with Zimbabwe's power-sharing deal are keeping visitors away.The coalition formed ... Southern Africa | Rudi Prinsloo | Thursday, 9 April 2009 Read more |
Zuma Is Off The Hook![]() South Africa's president-in-waiting Jacob Zuma formally became a free man on Tuesday after criminal charges against him were withdrawn at the High Court in Durban.Zuma's big moment was videotaped by ... Southern Africa | Rudi Prinsloo | Wednesday, 8 April 2009 Read more |
President Jacob Zuma has expressed his solidarity with the government of Zimbabwe on a state visit to that country. Here is his complete speech, as issued by the South African presidency:
27 August 2009
Your Excellency President Robert Mugabe and Mrs G...
Meredith Brace of San Diego, California, believes in integration. She lived in a largely white area, but the neighborhood school, Harding Elementary, was 90 percent Hispanic. She was convinced whites should go to Harding rather than escape to a white...
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Everyone has been commenting the South African matric results lately, including the fact that whites outscore blacks in marks and distinctions.
One black columnist doing some soul-searching is The Sowetan’s Sandile Memela. He writes:
"A few days ago I ...
The Dolphins have named an unchanged team to play the cape Cobras in an MTN Domestic Championship match in Durban on Friday.
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