Comments on: Link for the Day http://commentary.co.za/archives/2006/05/10/link-for-the-day-2/ A weblog focussing on political, social, economic and technological issues both in South Africa and globally. Written from a moderate conservative-libertarian perspective with contributions by several authors who may not always agree with one another Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:31:16 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DA Mal http://commentary.co.za/archives/2006/05/10/link-for-the-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7288 DA Mal Fri, 12 May 2006 06:25:10 +0000 http://commentary.co.za/archives/2006/05/10/link-for-the-day-2/#comment-7288 The Guardian leader was written by Christopher Hope, home-grown Afro-pessimist and J M Coetzee wannabe. I'm never much taken by his polemics. I suspect the Guardian was leading with his article as a rhetorical point, because I doubt the editor has quite as simplistic a view of the South African attitude as Hope. The Guardian leader was written by Christopher Hope, home-grown Afro-pessimist and J M Coetzee wannabe. I’m never much taken by his polemics. I suspect the Guardian was leading with his article as a rhetorical point, because I doubt the editor has quite as simplistic a view of the South African attitude as Hope.

]]> By: Shaun http://commentary.co.za/archives/2006/05/10/link-for-the-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7274 Shaun Thu, 11 May 2006 13:22:58 +0000 http://commentary.co.za/archives/2006/05/10/link-for-the-day-2/#comment-7274 Uhm, perhaps read the article: South Africa, as someone said long ago in a book that was promptly banned, is "a very strange society". But the new South Africa is in many ways even stranger than the old, and nothing shows it more embarrassingly than the trial of Jacob Zuma, the former vice president of South Africa, on the charge of raping a family friend. When Alan Drury wrote of <b>our strangeness</b>, he was thinking of the old South Africa, of racial persecution and of effortless cruelty, laced with the sorts of absurdities that took the top of your head off if you thought about them too much. A world on the far side of sanity. If you google his name, it's clear he was born in Joburg... Uhm, perhaps read the article:

South Africa, as someone said long ago in a book that was promptly banned, is “a very strange society”. But the new South Africa is in many ways even stranger than the old, and nothing shows it more embarrassingly than the trial of Jacob Zuma, the former vice president of South Africa, on the charge of raping a family friend. When Alan Drury wrote of our strangeness, he was thinking of the old South Africa, of racial persecution and of effortless cruelty, laced with the sorts of absurdities that took the top of your head off if you thought about them too much. A world on the far side of sanity.

If you google his name, it’s clear he was born in Joburg…

]]> By: yellerKat http://commentary.co.za/archives/2006/05/10/link-for-the-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7272 yellerKat Thu, 11 May 2006 13:08:17 +0000 http://commentary.co.za/archives/2006/05/10/link-for-the-day-2/#comment-7272 You'd think that a reporter from a country that created Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Uganda etc etc might STFU now and again and pause for refection. You’d think that a reporter from a country that created Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Uganda etc etc might STFU now and again and pause for refection.

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