Michael Yon reported about a week ago about the inability of many international media groups to accurately chronicle the marked successes occurring in Iraq. Anyone who has read the Petraeus report knows this already. Make no mistake, the security situation in Iraq is improving.
Clearly, a majority of Americans believe the current set of outdated fallacies [...]
The recent fires in California have laid waste to a relatively large area of landscape, but resulted in few fatalities and ultimately a far more effective response to this emergency than Katrina. Although these fires were certainly affecting a smaller area than New Orleans, the people behind managing the emergency have displayed incredible adeptness in [...]
The Sudanese resistance force, grandly entitled the ‘Justice and Equality Movement’ (JEM), have abducted several members of a Chinese-owned installation in Sudan. Their demands are of a suitably overestimated sense of self-importance only marginalised militias can hope for, the complete withdrawal of all Chinese influence in the country. The hostages? They’re not even Chinese. One [...]
From Soweto to Oranje, the country has been celebrating the Springbok’s victory over the dastardly English almost as one. It’s a rare occurrence which has been repeated very few times in our nation’s recent history, but what it does highlight is just what level of solidarity is possible in South Africa. I’m not so naive [...]
It’s almost time. The 2007 Rugby World Cup final between South Africa and England will commence in a couple of hours and everyone who’s anyone seems to have made arrangements. I myself have to rush off too as soon as this entry is done, joining friends for the periodic ritual of South Africans clad in [...]
If a genie were to pop up right now and give you three wishes, what are the odds a great deal of us would wish for money, a unicorn and… world peace. World peace is such an abused term that I doubt many who yearn for its warm enfolding utopian rays really know why or [...]
Justin Cartwright in the Daily Telegraph has an interesting (if heavily slanted) take on the psychology and politics of rugby in South Africa:
When Jake White, the South African coach, describes victory in Saturday’s World Cup final as “South Africa’s destiny”, I wonder if he really understands what he is saying. It is widely reported that [...]
…[T]o the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. — from the will of Alfred Nobel.
It was with the guidance of this simple sentence, written in November 19851895, that the [...]
Carrying on from my earlier post on the despairingly apparent track our country’s democracy is on, I have been thinking a little bit on what precisely could, or should, be done in response. Were Zuma to win the ANC top spot, he will almost certainly be our next president, this much is a pretty safe [...]
Here in Hokkaido, I live quite literally next door to an SDF base. It’s not a large one, just a few armoured cars, APC’s and a small detachment of troops. I haven’t obviously been on the base, but I’d have to hazard a guess and say there may be a company-sized presence in those odd [...]
My brother wrote a rather interesting piece on his own blog on the nature of our country’s ‘democracy’, and in the best interests of nepotism, I shall shamelessly add to it. One of the major points he raised was the notion that the ‘struggle’ was not to attain real democracy, but rather gain a proportionate [...]
It’s rather interesting to note that the recent official beginning of the department of defense’s ‘Africa Command’ coincides with the 14th anniversary of the famed and much-publicised ‘Battle of Mogadishu’ which began on the 3rd of October. Black Hawk Down, as it is more commonly known, saw encircled and vastly outnumbered US troops fend off [...]
Jacob Zuma. The name brings a grimace to the vast majority of the middle class in South Africa (and perhaps abroad), and now with the race for ANC’s presidency in the opening stages, it’s going to make for some interesting, yet turbulent, political times for South Africans, whether they choose to be apolitical or not. [...]
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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
