S.Africa: Protection of Information Bill - the ANC takes a leaf out of the old South Africa-type legislation
Monday 19-Jul-2010: [The ANC has over the years introduced some information which is beneficial for the rights of individuals - eg the Promotion of Access to Information Act and the Consumer Protection Act and the Electr (By A Different Perspective)... | South Africa: Where the generals carry insignia equivalent to British Field Marshals/US Generals of the Army
Saturday 22-May-2010: Military ranks and insignia in South Africa have traditionally followed the British system.
A British brigadier is not a general, whereas his US counterpart is (a one-star brigadier-general).
A (By A Different Perspective)... |
Boerejode - the Jews who fought on the Boer side in the Anglo-Boer War: The first Jew killed was an American, Harry Spanier
Sunday 09-May-2010: Approximately 300 Jews who lived in the two Boer republics fought on the side of the Boers in the Anglo-Boer. These Jews, very many of whom were practicising Jews who fled from from Eastern Europe, ha (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Pre Soccer World Cup flagsand mirror covers on cars - A South African phenomenon or not?
Saturday 08-May-2010: About two months ago the first cars started appearing with small South African flags flapping from plastic sticks hooked into their windows. For a month the numbers didn't grow very much.
But abou (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: Did I stand next to South Africa's sleaze king the day before was killed in a "hit"?
Saturday 08-May-2010: Did I find myself standing next to South Africa's sleaze king Lolly Jackson the day before he was killed?
There's a month to go before the soccer World Cup, and for most of this week headlines were (By A Different Perspective)... | South Africa: Nearly half of SA army not fit for combat; original article on 60% HIV+ in SA Army
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: [This is the original article which is referred to in Utterly shocking facts about the South African army in 2009... 60% HIV+ ... and much more...
Note that thise facts were mentioned in a parliame (By A Different Perspective)... |
USA: James Clavell's 1963 THE CHILDREN'S STORY and Barak Obama's 8 September 2009 speech to schools
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: [SemperFi, thanks for posting Chelsea Schilling's article posted on Sept 3rd on WorldNet Daily about Barack Obama's scheduled specch on Sept 8th. (see USA: Far, far worse than Jimmy Carter )The questi (By A Different Perspective)... | South Africa: SA Health Professions Council warns of bogus doctors
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: [See the article South Africa: 'Fake' doctor paid R35 000 for jail work . South Africa has truly become a country of criminals and opportunists. Whilst full of high-sounding morality and righteous in (By A Different Perspective)... |
South Africa: The Recession Bites - Some Recession Indicators - Property Sales, Motor Cars and Strikes
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: PROPERTY SALES WAY DOWN
I was reading my weekly Saturday morning newspaper, Johannesburg's "Saturday Star" yesterday. It has a weekly property supplement with the properties for sale and rental in (By A Different Perspective)... | South Africa - Shilowa to lead COPE? Remember you first read it on AfricanCrisis months ago
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: [Well, as Lone Wolf so often says in his postings, this comes as no great surprise. I have felt from the outset that Mbhazima Shilowa is more suited to the leadership of COPE or the top of its party l (By A Different Perspective)... |
Zimbabwe - Thousands mob President Tsvangirai after decisive MDC meeting
Monday 02-Feb-2009: Thousands mob President Tsvangirai after decisive MDC meeting
30th January 2009 -
MDC Pressroom-- Thousands of people today mobbed President Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC leadership as excitem (By A Different Perspective)... | Zimbabwe - Resolutions of the 1st 2009 MDC National Council
Monday 02-Feb-2009: RESOLUTIONS OF THE 1st 2009 MDC NATIONAL COUNCIL
30th January 2009 -
RESOLUTIONS OF THE 1st 2009 MDC NATIONAL COUNCIL
HARARE,
30 JANUARY 2009
AWARE of the continuous suffering of the peop (By A Different Perspective)... |
Zimbabwe - Statement by President Tsvangirai on the Resolutions made by the National Council
Monday 02-Feb-2009: Statement by President Tsvangirai on the Resolutions made by the National Council
30th January 2009 - MDC Pressroom
30 January 2009
Statement by the Leader of The Movement for Democratic Chan (By A Different Perspective)... | Israel - Gaza: Eye-witness reports on how Hamas plays dirty to get civilians deliberately killed and Israel blamed
Tuesday 06-Jan-2009: [Well here we have it. Respected journalist Sam Kiley describes how Hamas launches rockets from right next to schoolchildren playing, in the expectation that Israel will retaliate and kill the childre (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa - Zimbabwe: South Africa gives Zimbabwe R300 million that could better have been used at home
Friday 26-Dec-2008: [Why was it ever necessary for South Africa to be in a position where it has had to give R300 million to Zimbabwe for food. As I said in a comment earlier this week Mugabe is stiing back creaming it w (By A Different Perspective)... | Zimbabwe - Allan Boesak says it's time for Zimbabweans to take to the streets to get rid of Mugabe
Thursday 25-Dec-2008: By Christelle Terreblanche and Sapa-dpa
December 23 2008
Cleric Allan Boesak says the time has come for Zimbabweans to "present their bodies in the street" as a challenge to President Robert Mu (By A Different Perspective)... |
SA frica: Will COPE soon have more members that ANC? ANC has lost many of the 621 000 members it had in 2007
Monday 22-Dec-2008: COPE recently announced that it has about 420 000 members signed up in the six weeks since the national convention in Sandton last month. And COPE expects to have 500 000 members by Christmas. The rep (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Khoisan descendents form political party to contest the next national election in 2009
Monday 22-Dec-2008: [There has been a tremendous amount of correspondence in response to the comments by 'Afrikaner lies' (see Janolifant's Setting Things Straight ) Well here is some good news. The Khoisan descendants (By A Different Perspective)... |
Sport - S Africa - Australia: Mr Ponting, who's wearing the choker now? SA pull off amazing win in cricket test
Sunday 21-Dec-2008: [Once again our sportsmen are showing the way. South Africa have now hopefully buried their reputation as chokers. What the performance of the Springboks in France earlier this year and more recently (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Even President Motlanthe targeted in dirty tricks to ensure Zuma presidency
Sunday 21-Dec-2008: [The South African president is elected by a vote in parliament. Despite the ANC's claims that it acted constitutionally, its removal of President Mbeki remains in terms of the law unconstitutional, a (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: Panicky ANC pulling out all the stops in fight on new front against COPE
Sunday 21-Dec-2008: [After failing in court efforts to reverse by election results in local government elections, and have COPE banned from using the name "Congress of the People" the ANC suddently has to fight an unexpe (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa - Science: Archaeological Discovery: Earliest Evidence Of Our Cave-dwelling Human Ancestors
Sunday 21-Dec-2008: [An article in The Star yesterday (20th December)says that the research team was led by Chazan together with Liora Horwitz of the hebrew University incollaboration with the McGregor Museum in Kimberle (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: My 35 hours without a computer because of no electricity
Tuesday 25-Nov-2008: Gee, it's good to be back at the keyboard.
On Sunday morning I woke up at about 7 am and went to the kitchen to boild some water for a cup of coffee. I was surprised when the water took an age to b (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Prominent Black Editor says: When Zuma speaks we hears echos of Mao-TseTung and Robert Mugabe
Sunday 09-Nov-2008: [Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya bravely spoke out in his leader articles against the practices of Thabo Mbeki. Thanfully he survived in his post and saw out the Mbeki presidency. Now he turns his (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: Black pupils prefer to study English or Afrikaans to Zulu or other Black languages
Sunday 09-Nov-2008: School kids reject African languages
Prega Govender
The overwhelming majority of SA’s school pupils are not interested enough in indigenous African languages to study them at school.
It has (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Witchcraft sets you free - Is it now OK to claim you are bewitched to escape court justice??
Sunday 09-Nov-2008: [In the old days your were burnt at the stake if someone said you were bewitched. And some parts of rural South Africa they still burn or stone people thought to be witches. But in the successor to th (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: Breaking news - DA beats ANC in 2008 World Mayor of the Year stakes - Helen Zille of Cape Town wins award
Monday 13-Oct-2008: [Well there you have it. Democratic Alliance leader and mayor of Cape Town Helen Zille has just won the 2008 World Mayor award.
820 mayors worldwide were nominated, and both Zille and Joburg's Amo (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Breaking News - New political now almost a certainty - ANC reported to have suspended membership of Lekota
Monday 13-Oct-2008: This must surely be the shove which confirms that a new political party is about to be born. Mosioua Lekota has said that his meeting this morning with ANC Treasurer-General Mathews Phosa was a waste (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: Shilowa set to join Lekota’s ANC rebels
Monday 13-Oct-2008: [When COSATU head Zwelinzima Vavi predicted a tsunami at last year's ANC Congress at Polokwane, he was right. The only problem is that the tsumami is heading in the wrong direction - it is heading tow (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Is Patrick Lekota setting the scene for Mbazima Shilowa to lead the new political party?
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: Last week saw a failed ANC attempt to get to meet with Patrick Lekota. ANC treasure-general Mathews Phosa is now meeting Lekota tomorrow (Monday) to discuss Lekota's differences with the ANC.
The p (By A Different Perspective)... |
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai threatens to pull out of agreement and call for immediate elections
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: [Morgan Tsvangirai has expressed his party's outrage at Robert Mugabe's unilateral gazetting of a distribution of cabinet positions heavily skewed in favour of ZANU-PF. See
News - Africa: Zim opposi (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: In allowing Mbeki's axing has Zuma shot a hole through his presidency chances???
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: [The ANC was turned upside down when the pro-Zuma camp overwhelmingly gained the upper hand at Polokwane. However, since then a Pandora's box has opened, and the genie has been let out of the bottle, (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: Get rid of Parliamentary sports chairman Butana komphela, says Mondli Makhanya
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: Rid SA sport of Komphela
Sunday Times Editorial
South African sport is in crisis and the government-sponsored indaba in Durban this week was the perfect forum to discuss the many problems that b (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Elements of ANC Youth League express dissatisfaction at outburts of Julius Malema
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: Decision time for ANC membership
By Lynette Johns and Sapa
Should they go, stay, or stop voting altogether? Thousands of ANC members will dwell on this dilemma this weekend.
And none more so (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: SACP wants SA's economy overhauled - Lunatic Communist economic ideas!
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: SACP wants SA's economy overhauled
29 September 2008, 09:24
The South African Communist Party will push for changes in the country's economic policies when it meets Cosatu and the ANC at the cruci (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: ANC tells Lekota to go; Letkota says ANC using dirty tricks; Many ANC branches ready to defect
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: [This information-filled article was the front page story in yesterday's City press. In addition to Lekota's claim of ANC dirty tricks and the disturbing involvement of South Africa's intelligence age (By A Different Perspective)... |
S Africa: Jacob Zuma's "new ANC" is using "PW Botha's apartheid techniques"
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: [Vlakplaas was the secret base from which black or wet operations were conducted by the previous apartheid government and were the focus of the country's pos-t 1994 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Who said Zuma was born to be the president of the ANC?
Sunday 12-Oct-2008: [Patrick Lekota's Wednesday October 8th radio interview on Talk Radio 702 in Johannesburg opened the floodgates of the ANC attack on his moves to possibly create a breakaway party from the ANC. Here i (By A Different Perspective)... |
South Africa drops in Global Competitiveness Report (and FIFA world soccer) rankings
Saturday 11-Oct-2008: It does not help saying that South Africa has the highest Global Competitivenes Report 2008/2009 ranking in sub-Saharan Africa.
South Africa has dropped to 45 from 44 in the 2007/2008 rankings. Thi (By A Different Perspective)... | S Africa: Split message - ANC Bulldog Malema barks loudly at Lekota while other leaders say "Let's talk"
Saturday 11-Oct-2008: [Can you believe this? Patrick Lekota was leading anti-apartheid campaigns and in jail before ANCYL leader Julius Malema was even in kindergarten. And as for Malema's reference to the ANC's political (By A Different Perspective)... |