Archive for December, 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Putting the Shoe in Perspective

From Day by Day

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Monday, December 15, 2008

A Complete Shoe-In

I’m certain by now most of the informed masses who have even passed briefly by a TV or newsstand will have heard about the titillating shoe attack against George Bush on his final trip to Iraq. Now, this is commentary, and we all appreciate a good chortle at any leader’s expense, but there are two [...]

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The Tyranny of Marketing

The Pretoria News is currently running one of my articles on South African politics. A sample:

Clever marketing has the potential to act as a force multiplier, levelling the political system and allowing smaller parties to compete on a more even footing with the ANC. But there is also some danger here that parties may delude [...]

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Monday, December 1, 2008

Behind the Rainbow

While waiting for my errant sibling to pick me up, I went to Rosebank mall and watched the new documentary on the ANC Behind the Rainbow. Aside from reminding me just why I love the beautiful complexity of politics so much, the film provided an extremely fascinating extra layer of insight into the party that [...]

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