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Written by Aeysha Kassiem and Michelle Jones (IOL)
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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(Living in South Africa, one has become quite accustomed to politicians routinely bellowing the most unintelligent gunk in the universe. One has come to expect the usual side-stepping of issues and the vapid wishy-washy (or is that machiney-washy? ) tripe when politicians get questioned on TV or have to make pronouncements on anything...so when a (former) politician of Allan Boesak's pedigree (replete with rap sheet et al) says what he says in this article...dammit...I was almost moved to tears. Truly a remarkable speech in my opinion, he hit the nail on the head in a number of areas. Aweh Boesak! - Ed - IOL)
Anti-apartheid stalwart Allan Boesak on Wednesday night slammed the ANC for bringing back "racial divisions and ethnic categorisation", saying that "the language of ethnicity had been brought back into the speech of the movement" and that the ANC, as the government, had "brought back the hated system of racial categorisation".
He also said that affirmative action had, in some instances, "taken on new forms of racial exclusion, ruthlessly and thoughtlessly throwing overboard the solidarity forged through years of struggle". |
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Written by Mandy Rossouw
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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(Some interesting commentary on the BBI - Unlike some people, I'm not too fond of playing the "oppression olympics" and comparing the sufferings of my community with that of others. What I do believe in though, is equal treatment. My comments to this article can be found in the comments section further down - Read the arrticle on MG here - Ed)
How do you measure suffering? And if you were to find that you have suffered the most, how do you get compensated for that?
This is a rather crude analysis of why the newly established Bruin Belange Inisiatief (BBI) -- Coloured Interests' Initiative -- was brought into existence.
The 400 coloured people who gathered at Goudini Spa, previously an exclusive holiday hangout for whites, had one thing in common: they felt they were done in by the African National Congress government and that the pot of gold put aside for the rainbow nation is shared exclusively among their black countrymen. The fact that they were all coloured was arbitrary. |
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Written by Charles Ash
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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Written by Charles Ash
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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Calling all wordsmiths, creative whizzes, writers, bloggers, aspirant-columnists, praatjie-meisters and anybody that can string a few coherent sentences together. Now's your chance to not only contribute your ideas and creative energy to Bruin-ou.com, but to attain lifelong fame and eternal respect from the Bruin-ou.com community by becoming a regular content contributor. |
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Written by Charles Ash
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
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DO NOT read this article UNTIL you've read the article by Mr Jonathan Jansen.
Yesterday, I hurried of to the nearest supermarket to check for myself what exactly are the ingredients of Frisco. I don't have a can of it in my house because, well, on the coffee scales, Frisco is about as tasty and satisfying as drinking muddy river water. Frisco is probably manufactured after sweepers have swept the coffee factory floor and accumulated all the coffee dust from the floor. They then put the coffee dust into tins and sell it off to the unaware public as a taste of what coffee might just be like...Frisco. In the absence of an alternative though, I have been known to drink Frisco, but only a cup heaped with at least 4 teaspoons of Frisco coffee dust. Coffee is about the flavour, not just the colour. “Dark water DOES NOT a cup of coffee make”. |
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Written by Jonathan Jansen: An Educated Guess
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
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(Fifth Column - A fifth column is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group to which it is expected to be loyal... [source: Wikipedia]. The author of this article is a classic example of what a fifth column is and why I am ever vigilant and wary of them. This is further proof of exactly why I dislike some Coloured academics. This article was published on The Times website)
It was a long day at work and, as my car hit the home stretch, I longed for that cheap coffee for which I bear the brunt of jokes in our friendship circles.
I grew up on Frisco, and I see no reason to descend to the level of the new elites who can’t spell what they drink — things like skinny latte and foam cappuccino.
Negotiating the Brooklyn circle on the fancy side of Pretoria, I looked left and right and left again (just like we learnt in primary school), when a thud registered on the passenger side of the car. |
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Written by Charles Ash
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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(SAME, the newly formed lobby group recently sent this letter to the SABC. The organisation is first seeking consultation with the SABC board on this matter and pending the outcome...well, we'll just have to wait and see... - Ed)
The
Chairperson
The
Board: South African Broadcasting Corporation
SABC
Auckland
Park
Dear
Chairperson,
CONCERN
OVER THE CONTINUED MARGINALISATION OF COLOURED SOUTH AFRICANS ON SABC
INSTITUTIONS, FACILITIES AND PROGRAMMES
From
the outset, let us state that we are well aware of the challenges
faced by a national broadcaster such as the SABC, especially
operating in a society as multicultural and heterogeneous as our
South African society.
The
concerns raised in this letter do not ignore the great strides which
the SABC has made in delivering to the South African public a service
which breathes new life into our constitutional objectives of equal
representation, media equality and the use of media as a tool for
social empowerment and change. It is the intentions of this letter to
raise the concerns of the Coloured community as a collective as well
as to seek an audience with the SABC Board and Management, and thus
to begin a dialogue in order to find an amicable resolution to the
issues raised herein.
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