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We don’t know who started it, nor why. But a uniquely South African Twitter trend has gone global. Edit – We do know now: It all began with local musical comedian Daniel Friedman, popularly and Twitterly know as @Deepfriedman who tweeted:...
In the column (“Haffajee does it for white masters”) that got him axed from the Sowetan, Eric Miyeni suggests that City Press editor Ferial Haffajee allowed the publication in her newspaper of a series of articles disclosing the questionable...
We’d love to take credit for hacking the ANCYL web site, but we cant. It wasn’t us. Promise. Yesterday delivered much online mirth at the expense of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) when they discovered that their website...
On Thursday we challenged our readers to get BORN FREES to register for the upcoming local government elections. Being registration weekend I was hopeful we would have a positive response….I was not prepared for what happened next…. I...
We all love a good challenge don’t we……….So here goes a challenge for you. I challenge you to get one, or more, unregistered VOTER! registered this weekend for the upcoming Local Government Elections. Voter registration...
The eNews Channel carried a brief information note this morning that suggested the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was concerned about the low number of newly-eligible young voters in South Africa who have registered to vote. If memory...
I wrote about Wordle awhile ago here on BlaBla, and thought it would be interesting to plug the text of the speech presented by Pres. Jacob Zuma on Saturday, at the occasion of the ANC’s 99th Birthday gathering in Polokwane. Speaking on behalf...
I’m sure, like us, you’re delighted with the news of the release of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma at the weekend. We should all be relieved, if cautious, that she has been able to take a step towards freedom. However, we must...
The Shootings November 3, 2010 marks the 31st anniversary of a tragic event in the history of Greensboro, North Carolina, and perhaps one of the single most disgraceful incidents in modern US history. On the morning of November 3, 1979, protesters...
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin turned 58 last week and female journalism students from Moscow State University gave him a sexy present: a 2011 pin-up calendar featuring 12 scantily clad students with salacious suggestions to fill his...
[Prepare yourself, it’s going to be a long one…] Are South African socio-political nobodies busy posturing for position? With local and national elections imminent, there seems to be a rash of “I am so desperate to be recognised I’ll...
Today marks 33 years since anti-apartheid struggle hero and Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko died in police custody in Pretoria. His death in detention was reported by the authorities to have been caused by Biko being on hunger...
It is all everyone is asking me about today – “where were you when The World Trade Centre was attacked?” New York City saw the most devastating terrorist attack ever to take place on US soil exactly nine years ago today. On September...
Is the latest DA-ID merger Anti-Competitive? Or are they just undermining the DEMOCRATIC principles they both “Adhere” to? Helen Zille commented on a radio interview with John Robbie that the two parties can not “merge”...
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