The official results map from the IEC is at best confusing and at worst, deliberately misleading.
Here is the overview map of the Western Cape. The circled areas are 100% complete, but the detailed view is very different to the overview. Starting top left, moving counter-clockwise.
Witzengerg:
Russia Today is a Russian-government aligned/supported news web site. They don’t feature a LOT of stories, but instead focus on major issues (and some sports, particularly wrestling and ice-skating, which seem popular with their readers).
The site is becoming popular as a source of “alt” news, given the high levels of propaganda and fake news emanating out of the Western main-stream media. Being a Russian-government aligned site, they do push the Russian government’s point of view, meaning some people in the west don’t trust them.
Back in the 1970s, during the height of the Cold War Continue reading
Lifted from the IOL forums, no idea where it originated.
SELECTIVE TRANSFORMATION By Don Clarke
This one is for the students of the University of Cape Town who want the Rhodes statue removed.
If this statue is offensive to you because it reminds you of colonialists, why do you wear the clothing of the colonialists, speak the language of the colonialists, utilise the technology and medication of the colonialists, and pay good money to be educated like the colonialists? If a mere stone statue is offensive to you, shouldn’t you wipe out every other vestige and symbol of colonialism as well?
Shouldn’t the males amongst you turn up at ‘varsity dressed in animal skins and feathers, and a beshu to cover your backsides? And the female students short grass skirts or beaded cotton strings, with their breasts swinging free? It would spice up the lectures a bit hey? C’mon guys, don’t be such cowards. If you want to protest against colonialism, do it properly.
Throw your smart-phones away and speak your own languages, be it Zulu, Xhosa or
whatever.
So Russian Prez Putin went missing for 11 days and has now reappeared. But now US Prez Obama appears to have needed some time alone too… which lead to this on AlJazeera on 17 March:
“Mind you, some Russian bloggers are now asking: where is US President Barack Obama who has not been seen since March 8?”
Obama surfaced at a dinner on Sunday night, so I guess he is okay for now … apart from this snippet on 15 March from Vetarans Today, which gets fed lots of bits of info that other people don’t:
It is not unreasonable to assume that a conspiracy to murder President Obama is currently underway.
I guess time will tell.
I found this in a comment on IOL, apparently it appeared somewhere on Facebook originally.
After president Jacob Zuma’s downright idiotic statement two weeks ago that all the problems in South Africa started with the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652,
I have been noticing quite a number of Jan van Riebeeck profile pictures, cartoons and T-shirts going about. As could be expected – I would personally consider doing anything civilised to annoy Jacob Zuma as well.
But I think one should have one last word about this and then we can focus on the future again, instead of doing the ANC thing of dwelling in the past for ever. They have started with blaming apartheid for everything until they realised that some of us actually remember the years of apartheid and might not be as foolish as the majority of KFC-eating, my-vote-for-a-free-yellow-tee-shirt, snorting and dumping rubbish in the streets-voters are. So now he tried to blame a section of history which nobody can remember first hand. Stuuuuupid! Europeans actually had the skill to write and record journals, and if the president bothered to read one or two from time to time, he might not make such a fool of himself. But I understand he said once that he is not one for reading much. That is very obvious, I fear.
The president passed standard 3 at school, I understand. Which explains his lack of knowledge, because the old standard 5 history text book was the one which taught us that Jan van Riebeeck was sent to the Cape Continue reading
So New York City was expecting the worst storm ever with up to 1 metre of snow, except it didn’t quite turn out as bad as that. In spite of the no-show, people still took precautions and stripped supermarket shelves of essentials like water, bread, milk, eggs, etc.
What’s curious about the storm is that it comes soon after the Japanese released a report showing that 2014 was the hottest year on record. Which bolstered claims of global warming. Here’s one report with pretty graphs and even a video.
But of course there are other sides to the coin. For example, here’s a chart of the major snowfalls in the New York area since 1888, when records began:
So once again the beautiful city of Cape Town gets dragged through the mud, this time by being ranked the 14th most violent city in the world, and most violent in South Africa by quite a margin.
The numbers come from an organization in Mexico which produces a list annually, of the world’s cities with more than 300 000 inhabitants. They use official numbers where available, an unofficial numbers when all else fails, which has led to some of the cities on the list criticizing them for that methodology.
According to the Italian oil group Eni, we may see oil at USD 200 a barrel in 4 or 5 years time. The reason, according to them, is because OPEC is refusing to cut production now, while oil prices are off their historical highs of over USD 100, and far from their close-to USD 150 of a few years back.
OPEC for their part say that even if they cut production, other producers will simply move in to supply the slack, and OPEC will lose market share, which they are loathe to do.
When is a bribe not a bribe?
When it is a ‘gift’… unless you want to call a spade a spade, in which case it is the same thing.
Here’s a notice posted on the Department of Home Affairs web site:
Say NO
Which brings us to the story of Home Affairs data capturer Ms Mathato Mokhele, who was fired in 2007 for accepting a packet of Marie biscuits as a ‘gift,’ and has since being pursuing legal avenues in an attempt to have her dismissal overturned… and been soundly rebuffed at every step of the way.
The gory details are here: A bribe is a bribe….
Curiously, although the biscuits are described as a ‘gift’ implying no quid pro quo, she did admit to taking presents from funeral parlours and marriage officers to prioritise their paperwork…
After our embarrassing President’s recent embarrassing remarks at the ANC birthday bash, the executive directory of the FW De Klerk Foundation, Dave Steward, has released an opinion piece which reminds people of the actual history of this country. It’s worth reading in full here: