The Mandela Park Backyarders write: Earlier this morning a group of Khayelitsha residents showed up in front of the brand new Khayelitsha Hopsital to protest against the refusal of hospital authorities to hire local people from amongst the recent estimated 70,000 job applications. Estimates are that only 2%-10% of staff hired at the hospital are from the Khayelitsha area. Almost 100 people converged in front of the hospital. They closed the road and burned tyres in order to show government … [Read more...]
Khayelitsha Residents Arrested for Tyre Burning Outside new Khayelitsha Hospital
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Kaapse Twilight
25 November, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Just where do the guys get the time to think this stuff up? Twilight (Twilight Saga) NewMint ConditionDispatch same day for order received before 12 noonGuaranteed packagingNo quibbles returns An electrifying debut novel of a young woman's love for a vampire. List Price: £7.99 Price: Twilight [DVD] The big-screen adaptation of Twilight, Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire romance, is aimed squarely at its key demographic: teen girls whose idea of Prince … [Read more...]
The Black and White Green Paper on Land Reform
2 November, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Few documents provide a more disheartening illustration of the degree to which our national discourse has been re-racialised than the recently published Green Paper on Land Reform. The Green Paper's ideological fountainhead is the ANC's National Democratic Revolution - which, believe it or not, still views South Africa through the prism of a continuing liberation struggle against whites. The ideology is reflected in the Green Paper's assertion that "all anti-colonial struggles are, at the … [Read more...]
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To Condemn People who Occupy Land is to Condemn the Poor
27 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We note that yesterday, the 25th September 2011, the City of Cape Town's reactionary and often violent Anti-Land Invasion Unit, with a help of Law Enforcement, Metro Police and South African Police Service demolished more than 100 structures at Kraaifontein. These structures had been erected by backyarders on an open field that had remained an unused piece of land for more than 17 years. In some countries unused land is considered to be public land. Here in South Africa the state will always … [Read more...]
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Defending our Legacy
23 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Former President, FW de Klerk says; On Heritage Day we should remember that we are all beneficiaries of legacies left to us by previous generations. Some of us may have been fortunate enough to have inherited material possessions from our parents or grand-parents. However, their most important legacy may not have been the money they left us but the values that they instilled in us; the examples that they set and the memories that they left us of lives well lived. All of us are … [Read more...]
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The Need for Dialogue on Hate Speech
22 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dave Steward & Adv Jacques du Preez from the FW de Klerk Foundation give their view: The reaction to Justice Colin Lamont's judgment on 12 September regarding the 'Shoot the boer' song reveals the depth of the divisions that continue to exist between black and white South Africans. Most white South Africans regard the judgment as vindication of their view that the song does, indeed, constitute hate speech. Black South Africans, on the other hand, vehemently reject the judgment as an … [Read more...]
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Second Open Letter to Mayor Patricia de Lille
22 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Mayor de Lille Thank you for the reply from your chief of staff to our letter dated 12 September. We have now had time to circulate it amongst our members and to discuss it carefully. We do appreciate your invitation for the leadership of Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape to meet with the mayor. There has, after so many years of struggle in Durban, been no such invitation from any mayor in Durban and we note and appreciate your willingness to meet with us. As we have … [Read more...]
About Blade Nzimande’s Recent Comments Regarding the FW De Klerk Foundation
13 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The FW de Klerk Foundation has taken note of Minister Blade Nzimande's recent comments regarding the Foundation and other organizations that are seeking to uphold the constitutional rights of South African citizens. The Minister refers to us as a "liberal conservative" organization. He presumably regards both liberalism and conservatism as negative terms, but he is quite right. We are a liberal organization in the sense that we unambiguously support all the individual rights and values set … [Read more...]
An Open Letter to Mayor Patricia De Lille from the Abahlali baseMjondolo
9 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Mayor de Lille I wish, at the outset, to make it clear that we, as Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, and the many organisations in solidarity with us across Cape Town, appreciate some aspects of your speech yesterday. We appreciate the fact that you acknowledge that shack dwellers, including backyarders, are living as we are as a result of a history of oppression and not because there is something wrong with us. Once this fact is acknowledged then it becomes obvious that we … [Read more...]
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iStore Fail
6 July, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I went to the iStore in the V&A to get my iMac fixed and the tech guy took my computer to assess what was wrong and give me a quote. A week later, after calling for him several times, he finally got back to me. The quote I received was for R4200. I called up a few places and quickly discovered that their quotes – for the same problem – were all about R2000 less that the iStore’s quote (!). Needless to say, I took my computer to someone else and when he opened it, it took him no less … [Read more...]
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