This was a good article about gender politics in South Africa.
ANC and co. have been going on and on about the DA. Wonder how they would respond to this article?
People with HIV-Aids are often told to speak openly about it. We break the stigma by breaking the silence. But clearly it is still taboo to talk about how it is spread. The only issue we debate is the right to free treatment — not the responsibility of every individual to stop the spread of HIV-Aids.
Mxit was launched in 2003, and was one of the worlds first MIM clients, Mxit however works on a stripped down version of the Jabber protocol. This reduces the bandwidth, making it much cheaper for messaging. Due to the low costs, Mxit has been hugely popular amongst teenagers and youth and they now claim to have about 12 million users.
The MXit iPhone app was recently released and it’s already become the number one free app on the South African Iphone store.
More serious is the fact that the company’s press statements page, a key resource for journalists and interested parties, is infected with a virus. The most probable cause is that the website’s security was compromised and code was inserted into the page.
Huaqiang Holdings Limited, based in Shenzhen, will cooperate with China Development Bank, the China-Africa Development Fund, and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa to build a 770,000 square meter theme park at a cost of 250 million U.S. dollars.
The theme park will consist of three zones: Chinese culture, African culture and world culture, according to Liang Guangwei, chairman of the board of Huaqiang Holdings Limited.
There's already one in Iran? And there will be one in Nigeria as well?
How quietly do these arrangements take place?
Not that it's a bad thing; I'm just surprised there is no major hype about this.
PASSENGERS off a South African Airways flight from London to Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport found their luggage had been “stripped open” and items stolen after they landed yesterday.
I guess, since they were coming into SA, they wouldn't have the clingwrap around their luggage.
Wow. The way papers went on and on .... no let's be fair, the way ANCYL and a bunch of folks went on about Zille's comments, you would think she said something really nasty.
Well, nasty enough for uncalled for comments like these (quote from The Times):
"Zille has appointed an all male cabinet of useless people, majority of whom are her boyfriends and concubines so that she can continue to sleep around with them, yet she claims to have the moral authority to question our President."
*facepalm*
Who is their right mind would use a retort like this? Are we back in kindergarten? Or did we accidentally teleport to a Cartman-ruled universe?
Can you imagine what the world would be like if Kofi Anan or Ban Kai Moon came up with such colorful retorts during every and any disagreement?
By the way, in case you were curious, here are Zille's offending remarks (quote from The Times):
"Zuma is a self-confessed womaniser with deeply sexist views, who put all his wives at risk by having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman."
Incidentally, there was this rather disturbing news report about young folk and their general beliefs about HIV/AIDs.
Responding to a reporter who said he was unable to see a single female in the Cabinet, Zille, who will head the body, replied with a grin: "Last time I looked I was a female."
Police will continue to arrest adults using children to beg around Durban's city streets, the eThekwini Municipality said on Friday.
It was disturbing indeed. The number of parents who were using kids to beg. I remember once instance where this lady had three kids with her. Woman used horrid profanity to send the little ones off towards various shoppers (this was in a flea market).
Sigh.
Mugabe is welcome in SA?
Wtf?!
Afriforum putting up anti-Mugabe posters = bad
Mugabe coming to inauguration = good?
To top it off, Afriforum was actually fined for that?
“If you arrest him, he will lead us from prison,” said Julius Malema, the head of the A.N.C. Youth League. “We are not afraid to be led by a president in orange clothes.” He has said he would “kill” for Mr. Zuma.
Quoted from NYT, March 10 2009
I've been too busy to put up a "Quote of the Week". Well, I found a good one for this week.
This one was, as you might have guessed, pondering the aftermath of the Zuma trial.
"Twenty-five percent of women in the general population and in 40% to 50% in the targeted studies have been victims of physical intimate partner violence," professor Rachel Jewkes of the sexual Violence Research Initiative said in Benoni, Johannesburg on Wednesday.
By the way, maybe there is a reason why alcohol consumption is so high in SA? I am not justifying it but it is disturbing that SA has so many folks who drink more than is socially acceptable. Maybe the whole social environment is a bit messed up?
Just so we are clear, let's not blame alcohol for this. Let's blame social trends, socialization processes, patriarchal systems and lack of social support networks - namely everything that influence people.
"There was the odd bid for R6," said Chauke [Nando’s marketing manager].
"So far, we have received about 100 bids. Some were for R100, R1000, R40,000 or R10,000. The highest so far is R85,000," he said, declining to reveal who had made that bid.
Shaheed Rudolph and Rashdeen Rudolph claim they qualify on the same grounds advanced by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma for his stay of prosecution.
Who are these guys?
Let's refresh our memory ...
On March 25 2006, robbers armed with AK-47 assault rifles boarded a South African Airways plane and stole R72-million in foreign currency.
The Rudolph bros are said to be the head honchos; the big cheese; the icing on the cake ... you get what I mean.
This will be interesting!
Wonder if this will be the precedent for a lot of suspects in crime cases. Charming.
I was reading up about D-9 today. It's the most recent venture by Peter Jackson (guy's donning the producer hat in this one).
It's sci-fi, it's about aliens and it looks good.
This is the basis for movie - his earlier short film called Alive in Joburg.
Why the arbitrary SF mention?
The story is written and directed by South African born Neil Blomkamp.
Say it with me, Hurrah!
Come on, people don't want to yak on about how bad SA is, then be proud of something SA.
*grumble grumble*
I was actually quite annoyed by comments regarding the movie. The said comments were found in various sites and probably came from people oblivious to the existence of countries other than their own.
Ye, District 9 doesn't come across as a 'copy' of Alien Nation.
When you watch the trailer and someone says 'District' with a number appended to it, in a South African environment to boot, Alien Nation is not the first thought that should come to your mind.
Yea, there's this little known incident called Apartheid in SA. And passbooks. And disillusionment after 1994. People living in shacks. Copper cable theft. And xenophobia in 2008.
I'm just ranting here and it's probably useless. But people's stupid comments did make me laugh on this slow Monday.
By the way, those who think any place outside that one amalgamation of unified places should check out these sites here and here.
Yea, they get net access ... in between the buffalo eating up the cables and people running around with arrows
