Karl Popper was right. Concepts indeed have relativistic meanings to people, conveying different understandings and sometimes have opposing meanings altogether. Free Trade is one example, and while many view it as a form of economic liberty that brings the benefits of advancement and growth, others decry it as an evil system of exploitation.
A component [...]
Stocking up on Tongaat – Hullet and Sappi shares in the medium and long term respectively may be regarded as good investments by those known as ‘contrarians’. That’s despite Tongaat’sfor the year ended 31 December 2003 and Sappi’s continual decline to afor the quarter ended 31 December 2003.
The contrarian is a particularly courageous breed of [...]
Apologies, but I’m exhausted after both a record day and month for the division I work in. With my left cerebral hemisphere completely drained of inspiring thought and having not prepared any thought provoking entries (contrary to popular belief, they aren’t always done on the fly), I leave you until tomorrow when I should be [...]
Thought that pure political theory couldn’t be applied to sport? Think again.
has an interesting comment on the state of cricket there, and even goes as far as to apply free trade principles to argue for ways to improve the state of the English game.
Ironically, the reverse may apply to local rugby as well, what with [...]
Wits University’s bad financial planning, coupled with Government slashing education funding has partly contributed to the current crisis at Wits. But it should be noted that each protesting student on financial assistance is actually consuming resources that would have been better sourced to support two, equally deserving black non-lodging students. The current expenditure of R102 [...]
It appears that US Intelligence and law enforcement officials may be starting to increasingly
That said, the United States officials are more likely to track American or Iraqi weblogs at this time. Whether the South African Government will begin tracking weblogs like this one remains another story.
Should I consider moving the physical location of the data [...]
In some other minor news, Rand Academic University (formerly Rand Afrikaans University) will be merging with Wits Technikon to form the
Locally trained doctors have meantime threatened toen masse as a result of legislation enacted. The dispensing deadline of 2 May looks unlikely to be met by the large body of doctors.
And while on the expected [...]
Andrew hason the standing ovation that Mugabe received on arrival at the presidential inauguration today. Take a look.
Today’s presidential inauguration had large numbers of Metro and conventional police on the road in the past few days, with most specifically excorting foreign leaders or diplomats invited to the event, or overseeing the highways from vantage points.
Most Jo’burgers and Pretorians would probably wish that the inaugaration was a more common event (without the R90 [...]
The Star has been having a field day of late going after Bush with photos on anything that may be damaging or embarressing to him, so much so that I wonder if we’ve quietly become the 51st American State based on the amount of American news making the front page instead of local news – [...]
Tony Twine, the Econometrix consultant who has publicly defended the local car industry’s pricing methods and attacked complaining readers in the Finance Week as a result is at it again, this time Ironically this time, Volkswagen is one of the parties complaining against such practices.
And for once, he is opposed by a similarly technically minded [...]
Significant attention has recently been given to the released photos of American flag draped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base. But NASA alleges that several of them were
That doesn’t dismiss the validity of other photographs, but it does raise the question as to why the collection has potentially been sexed up if what NASA [...]
In the past several years there have been relatively few, if any, major student protests at Wits University. That looksas protests mount against the 50% subsidy cut at the campus. But the mood may be considerably different from the tumult that shook the University in the early nineties and although it is also not certain [...]
Space travel within the solar system has been considerably constrained by a lack of sufficiently powerful energy sources. There is the available option of fission power and the potential future of fusion power, but NASA could do better to rely on it’s safer Ion engines and Scramjet technology, and specifically focus on sending out probes [...]
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[L]ocal viewpoints on local/international affairs. That they aren't brain-dead like most local self-confessed 'intellectuals' is a bonus.
- Fifteen Minutes
[I'm] glad to report the arrival of a new blog written by a couple of 'conservative-libertarian' South Africans. Commentary is both well written and prolific and very much worth a visit.
- Southern Cross
[A] great new South African blog. Commentary.co.za brings us libertarian views on South Africa...
- Way South
Probably the busiest (in terms of number of postings) blog is Commentary... They write on everything from politics, sport, time travel and more.
- Fodder
Commentary.co.za is a fantastically well-written site with an indepth insight into South African politics. If you want the lowdown on what's happening in the corridors of power, this is the place to read it. These guys know their stuff.
- Cherryflava
Pompous, geeky and holier-than-thou.
- Gabbahead
