IOL asks the question – What is Mbeki up to? – and then tells us to read all about it later today in the afternoon papers (and on their website presumably). Did Jacob Zuma and co really believe Thabo Mbeki was going to accept a humiliating defeat without a fight? Did they really think he…
The New York Times has an interesting article, brought on by the possible election of Barack Obama as US President. According to the article, written by Nicholas D Kristoff, studies have shown that humans have an ingrained prejudice even if it goes against our better nature. Participants in the studies were given the implicit association…
So Jacob Zuma received a letter from former president Thabo Mbeki earlier in the week.What concerns me – and what few people are talking about – is the form of this letter and how it was delivered. We know very little about Thabo Mbeki and his time in office. He did however leave the impression…
Let me re-emphasise immediately that this is not a review of High School Musical 3! There will never be a review of HSM 3 on this blog if I can help it…and I can help it! Being an aunty of little girls, I have been subjected to many things, from Barney to the Wiggles. I…
I am often bemused by catchphrases, slogans and the occasional cliché – they can go from the sublime to the truly ridiculous. The US elections brought to the fore some zingers, my favourite – say it ain’t so, Joe – and a few others that will go down in folklore if not become every day…
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