Posted in Politics on Apr 17th, 2008 No Comments »
SA writes off R926,8m owed by Cuba
- Mail & Guardian Online
“Cuba’s debt position had the potential to undermine bilateral economic relations”
Now this is a situation where you really have to ask yourself, do we want to have “bilateral economic relations” with a country that owes us almost R1 billion and is unable to pay it?? […]
Posted in Politics on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Cosatu calls on govt to intervene in food prices
- Mail & Guardian Online
While I agree that the rising food prices are a problem, and that Cosatu thinks it is acting in the best interests of its member, price controls are not an option!
Screwing with a free market economy is not a wise move at all!!
(Aside: […]
Posted in Politics on Apr 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Do black people have a right to exclusivity?
- By Bennie Bunsee
You can spin it anyway you like, Bennie, and delve into intellectual arguments about “colonialism” and past “oppression by a minority”, but 14 years into the democratic South Africa, such a blatantly racist policy as the FBJ’s exclusion of white journalists is a direct assault […]
Posted in Human Condition, Politics on Jun 20th, 2007 No Comments »
This public servant’s strike is really annoying me!
I generally do not condone mass action (although I believe that it is sometimes the only way to stand up for what you believe in), and am vehemently opposed to it in this current situation where a group of people are holding another group of people at ransom […]
Posted in Politics on Apr 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Now I know this is old news, but I came across this site when doing some browsing today, which I just had to share with you!
It’s a child site of Annotated Rant entitled Fuck the South.
It’s about the American elections of 2004 (Bush vs Kerry) and the ensuing debate and contention that arose between the […]
