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Ratepayers object to secret DA disciplinary hearings

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NGOs and Ratepayers organisations around South Africa can learn something from this argument by the Knysna Ratepayers’ Association against the DA’s intended secret, disciplinary hearings against councillors today. “RATEPAYERS STRONGLY OBJECT TO DA BOSSES CAVALIER TREATMENT OF MAYOR WILLEMSE AND COUNCILLOR MYERS Yesterday, Thursday 5 July, the Knysna Ratepayers Association’s Committee sent the following letter to Mr Anton Coetsee, the Initiator in the planned disciplinary proceeding of Mayor Mark Willemse and Councillor Peter Myers, and to James Selfe, chairman of the DA’s Federal Executive. The DA bosses in Cape Town … Read the full article…

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‘Zuma Must Fall’ Protest Action Can Lead to Greater Things

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Written by a REFORMED politician. “The premise of this letter is that I LOVE SOUTH AFRICA. I spent 30 years in the fight for a just and free society. I was not alone. We fought for a society where everyone is equal before the law. We fought for the righteous Bill of Rights and the noble principles espoused in the Freedom Charter. We thought that we had won that fight only to find out that we have put the wolf in charge of the sheep and the wealth of the … Read the full article…

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My Two Flags of Flesh for Democracy

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What use is democracy if we cannot remove failing politicians and municipal employees? Are they here to serve us? Are they elected representatives and public servants… or are we exhaustively working for them, our slavery ensured by skin colours and political parties that have no intention of walking the talk? Are we chained to a justice system indifferent to justice… sometimes a criminal perpetrator of injustice? As a man wanting a better life, as a human being capable of helping my neighbours, I raise my double barrel of middle fingers … Read the full article…

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Knysna’s Mosque Landing Soon

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Today, the controversial Knysna Mosque project took another step towards realisation. Credit to the persistence of the Muslim community as they fought unrealistic, public opinion. Although i have, in the macrocosm, strong views about religion as division and, in the microcosm, agreed with certain complaints such as that against broadcasting, i never signed the petition that did the rounds as it was never bothered to conceal distasteful discrimination. In our society, protected by the Bill of Rights, all must be allowed to practice their faith. “Section 15 states that everyone … Read the full article…

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