Recently, Beeld andbroke a supposed claiming that the Ebay database had been compromised by Nigerian 419 scammers, and that there was an ongoing investigation involving both the American Secret Security Service (SSS) and the South African Police Service (SAPS).
Yet now News24 is backtracking andwhen it was partly responsible for promoting a degree of hysteria among [...]

Farrelwhat Ngcuka’s future holds after his resignation, a conclusion that I tend to agree with.
Meantime it’s especially gratifying to note that Politics ZA finally has permalinks. But now how long until the comments sections arrive?

Which of the two big American political parties does the Democratic Alliance (DA) resemble more? If you answer Republican you’re likely wrong despite traditional analysis regarding the DA and Republicans as similar simply because they both represent the right wing in their respective nations. The DA’s ideological relation currently seems to be more Democrat, especially [...]

Abiola Lapite recentlyabout the planned withdrawal of roughly a third of all US troops stationed in South Korea facing off against Yet while it’s generally regarded that the demands of the Iraqi occupation are chief among the reasons for such a US action, another curious event suggests that there may be another unseen motivation.
Technological advances [...]

“As General Dallaire said, and as our experience teaches us, failure of humanity to stop another crime against humanity could easily happen again, with all humanity sitting impassive and apparently unperturbed. Now that we know what happened in Rwanda, we should never be silent again.” – Thabo Mbeki, 28 November 2003.
Oh, the irony…

Strictly speaking, Thabo Mbeki hasn’t been “silent” on Sudan. He mentioned the crisis about three weeks ago in ANC Today, in which he actually tried to spin Sudan into an AU diplomatic success story! This has to be seen to be believed:

The Assembly will adopt some additional decisions to help end the conflict that has [...]

Here’s a question worth pondering: why doesn’t the ANC care about Sudan?
You’d think they would. After all, the ANC was founded to fight racial oppression. When a government with a long history of racial persecution (and even slavery) targets 800,000 people for elimination simply because they’re black, a casual observer would probably guess that the [...]

Alan Greenspan’s famous phrase above dates back to the Dot.bomb era of irrational valuations for tech stock prices. Yet it seems highly applicable to the forthcoming
Price Earnings ratios potentially as high as 150 to 187? As much as Google’s my favourite search engine, there’s another phrase equally applicable to the listing valuation, namely The same [...]

As I said before, there isn’t really any serious possibility of South African military intervention in Darfur. Instead of agitating for it, maybe we should concentrate on something less ambitious, like getting the government to at least acknowledge that the attempted slaughter of 800,000 is people, you know, a bad thing. Check out this IOL [...]

Folks, the situation in Sudan is pretty simple. The native people of Darfur are called the Fur. The Fur are Muslims, but they’re black Muslims, unlike the Arab Muslims who control the Sudanese government. For whatever reason, that government has launched a campaign to systematically wipe them out. They’ve sealed off the province to prevent [...]

No, I’m not in favour of South African military intervention in Sudan. The idea does have a certain appeal (Africans fixing up their own continent’s problems and all that), but at the end day, we just don’t have the military capacity to do it. But it’s still important to think about these things. When we [...]