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Sex, music, racism, inequality etc. – so beautiful, so absurd. Mike Hampton has something to say about it. Maybe the odd diary entry too…

Politicians aren’t special, they have special responsibility

Dear Fellow Citizens, Politicians aren’t special. What they’ve got is ‘special’ responsibility. The only time they deserve respect, which is the same for everybody else, is when they get their job done well. Our acceptance of any lesser standard makes us servants… the dumbest kind that pays tax to be slaves and cowards. I’d rather be smart.

Dear Politicians, Cops, Journalists and Chapter 9 Institutions. Dear Conspiracy of Corrupt Silence. By ignoring the Democratic Alliance crime I’ve reported, you’ve forsaken morality and duty. That choice is about you – your salary, your political bias, your bigotry etc. Your choice doesn’t consider the victim, making you the aggressor too. In the way a gang member watches a fellow gang member rape a woman, you’re guilty of the DA’s rape of the People of the Western Cape.

It may not be smart of me to fight corruption you’ve made unbeatable, but I could never live being a liar like you. I have standards.

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

Violence vs hollow political words

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I’m sick of people saying that South Africa’s got a great Constitution and a functioning judiciary, as if that erases the corruption and violence eating us alive. If you were faced with a murdered 6-year-old girl, lying with her panties pulled down in a pool of her own blood, would you smile at her parents and say that at least she died in a pretty dress? … Read the full article…

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The Seven Deadly Social Sins

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SEVEN DEADLY SOCIAL SINS Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle. The ‘Seven Deadly Social Sins’ is an important moral code delivered by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in a London sermon on 20 March 1925. It’s title was later shortened to the ‘Seven Social Sins’. It became more famous after it was falsely accredited to Mohandas Gandhi. The town of Knysna, the City of Cape Town and the South African Government should put this on the wall instead of … Read the full article…

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The Lonely South African

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If you’re South African, you’re probably alone. If you’re a nurse, overworked with someone else’ spit on your lips and HIV fears in your head – you’re alone. If you’ve only got a shack and sell bananas on a pavement, everything else is competition or oppression – you’re alone. If you’re a single mom working at McDonalds but your kids have no side fries and salad at home – you’re alone. If you’re rich, that doesn’t stop you being lonely. But that’s a different type of sad because you wouldn’t … Read the full article…

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Cold Case Apartheid or Cold Case Hammarskjöld?

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‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ is unlike any documentary I’ve seen. It’s occasional deadpan humour in the first half flies in plane-crashing contrast to the chills, sadness and anger that eventually imploded me. Did South Africa, with assistance from MI5, the domestic intelligence branch of the British Government, attempt to infect Africans with HIV via fake vaccinations? That question grows as investigator Göran Bjorkdahl and documentarian Mads Brugger seek to discover who assassinated United Nations Secretary General Hammarskjold in 1961. THE ASSASSINATION United Nations (UN) Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld made a mistake. … Read the full article…

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Judgement: Old South African flag partially banned

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The old South African flag used during Apartheid has been partially banned by the Equality Court. Judge Phineas Mojapelo’s ruling may result in both sides claiming victory. More certain will be confused South Africans and the continuation of debate in future court cases. THE CASE FOR & AGAINST THE OLD SOUTH AFRICAN FLAG The application for the limitation of the use of the flag in public was made by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the South African Human Rights Commission. Their argument was that it constitutes hate speech, unfair discrimination … Read the full article…

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