Mhambi has been trying for some time to get into Twitter. The so-called ‘micro-blogging’ service which is really a Facebook-like status update minus the rest of Facebook.
I followed Obama’s amazing campaign all this year for instance.
But like Facebook, Twitter is only interesting if your following and interacting with interesting people. Obama fell silent [...]
Birds of prey: Terror and Julius take to Twitter
December 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · politics, technology
Tags: SA elections 2009·social media
Mantashe the communist defends ANC intelectual property
November 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · politics, the power of identity
Gwede Mantashe, ANC secretary general and communist showed us again this week just how politics and principle do often part ways.
Mantashe, regarded as an intellectual heavyweight and Marxist Leninist – who generaly do not believe in property rights - this week called on ANC’s trademarks, its intellectual property to be respected.
Reports the Sunday times:
‘ “The [...]
Tags: SA elections 2009
Class, culture and race – time for the SA population to choose ideas
November 1st, 2008 · 10 Comments · economy, politics, the power of identity
The South African National People’s Convention held in Sandton today, surely marks a turning point in South Africa’s history.
The convention is clearly bigger and of more significance than what most media pundits have predicted even a short while ago. At best it – we were told – would be a splinter group from the ANC. [...]
Tags: class·race·SA elections 2009
