kameraad mhambi

I wrote this post BET. Before ET was killed. The mood in the country has shifted since. But here is my thoughts anyway.

Vodacom Park Rugby Stadium (Aka Free State Stadium) – Cheetahs vs Brumbies, originally uploaded by Just_Ice..

One can’t but be impressed with all the construction evident all over Gauteng and the Free state. It’s [...]

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I arrived in South Africa yesterday, tired. Flying over Dubai is cheap but not worth it.
But I’m happy to be home.
The arrivals hall at Joburg International is dressed up in a garish MTN yellow. Welcome to World Cup Country. The new arrivals hall is gigantic. Shiny, plush.
But the highways of Gauteng are in turmoil. The [...]

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This photo was taken by Shayne Robinson in Thokoza two days ago. It is part of a series of protests against the governments inability to deliver basic services to the poor and for failing to deliver on their – admittedly grandiose – election promises.
The AWB of course never governed South Africa. But no matter. This [...]

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Kameraad Mhambi really really likes Barack Obama.
It’s rare that I agree with one person on so many things, and then this person happens to be the world’s most powerful president. Below you’ll find a reason why I say this. It’s an excerpt from his speech to the Ghanaian parliament.
If this speech had been [...]

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Georges Ndlovu, the tavern's owner, was injured in the robbery. "Nobody helped," he said of his neighbors. "I don't blame them. I would not have helped."
The New York Times’s Barry Bearak have done a great job reporting on rampant crime in Diepsloot Johannesburg. He points out how policing is being privatised. The poor organise themselves [...]

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The love affair with Thabo Mbeki endures.
Kameraad Mhambi attended a talk hosted by the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) in London Thursday night. South Africa: Which way forward was the title of talk.
Odd, I never heard of many of these talks when Mbeki came to power. Yet its with the presidency of [...]

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to the next, originally uploaded by Wildebeast1.

Last weekend I found myself walking through London Fields, Hackney real early at 7am.
I had had two nightmare’s. In one my friends and I were trying to escape from a war zone. The other one was just bizarre. Anyway, I was wide awake, got up and went for [...]

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