kameraad mhambi

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Entries Tagged as 'politics'

Comrade Malema has R53 million in his bank account?

March 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · politics

Genugtig. That’s allot.
Peter Bruce writes that:
The Editor of the Sunday Independent, Makhudu Sefara, recounted in his column yesterday the story of a businessman who tapped Malema for a R10 000 loan at a party just before last December. Malema flipped the man his bank card and gave him the PIN and the man drew the [...]

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Comrade Malema – does he earn more that 1 and a half million bucks?

February 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · politics

Kameraad Mhambi just read the defence by Julius Malema (the ANC youth leagues president) statement that he is not a crook with interest.

A few observations.
Comrade Malema says that he financed his properties with a bond from a bank. For his 3,6 Million Sandown house (lets not take his 1 million Polokwane house into consideration for [...]

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Ninja is the new James Phillips – just bigger

February 3rd, 2010 · 8 Comments · art & culture, politics, the power of identity

The guy that started the popular Afrikaans music explosion of the last 20 years or so name was James Phillips.
James was a Ingelsman – an English white South African. But not a Soutpiel – the derogatory word for English whites that were obsessed with thier mother country. (Literally salt penis. Someone with one foot in [...]

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Help! I became white

January 27th, 2010 · 8 Comments · politics, the power of identity

Just the other day , when I posted the latest video of Die Antwoord I mused:
In the west a case can certainly be made that whites are blissfully unaware of their whiteness, for the most part.
Perhaps Die Antwoord and movies like District 9 with its bumbling Wikus as hero, is changing all that.
My woorde was [...]

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ETV Word Cup criminal video causes man to kill himself

January 21st, 2010 · No Comments · politics

This is the video that has caused such a furore in South Africa. The TV company that made it, ETV has been subpoenaed under an apartheid era law to come forward and supply the names of those interviewed.
And the plot has thickened. One man who is said to have organised the interviews committed suicide this [...]

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Chris Louws death and what it may mean

January 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments · politics

You might have noticed a series of posts on my blog lately – the theme? The ‘natives’ – Afrikaners – are restless. This whole restlessness of course has a history. And one of the central players is Chris Louw, one of Breyten Breytenbach’s fellow Dakar travellers.
Yesterday I discovered a blog post about Chris Louw titled [...]

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Unanswered letters & the second Great Trek

January 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · history, politics, the power of identity

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Following on from Breyten Breytenbach’s remarkable piece in Rapport, where he lambasted the current South African regime and called for another, ex-foreign minister Pik Botha has responded to Breytenbach.
Here is an extract of what Pik Botha’s said:
“Die wit mense en in besonder die Afrikaners staan voor strawwe uitdagings.
Eerstens moet die onderskeid tussen “wit” [...]

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