Since setting foot in South Africa at the beginning of the year, Bozell has sought to deny the government the same latitude he believes in — that of a sovereign nation’s right to determine its priorities and national interest. Instead, he seems to suffer from what his countryman Lionel Trilling warned of in the 1950s — the phenomenon of rhetoric that consists of “irritable mental gestures” blasted through megaphones — to hide the lack of substantive engagement...
Business Day - KABELO KHUMALO | Weapon of mass misinformation: Bozell’s diplomatic meltdown https://t.co/VMspXQ19nH
Missing Ntombifuthi Rumo is in hospital after she was found alive last night. She was badly bruised after being tortured by kidnappers, who demanded R40,000 for her release. KwaThema community members are frustrated by the police's slow response amid growing fear among women in Ekurhuleni. Tune in to #eNCA on #DStv403.
Comment: Now we know at least one March&March funder: us (taxpayers) - the public! Jirre!
Marching for tenders: Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, husband score millions in state contracts https://t.co/Bxd85dGodo
No wonder any popular person today can be compared to Madikizela, or Biko or Sobukwe. There’s no real grasp of what those figures actually fought against. People think they fought against a little bit of legislation 🕊️
No Sinethemba. The Group Areas Act and the Bantu Education Act were NOT Constitutional Laws. They were ordinary parliamentary statutes passed by a white-minority legislature. South Africa only became a Constitutional democracy in 1994.
A municipality promoted a staffer to CFO at the same meeting in which a report was tabled implicating her unit in the theft of millions of rands from council coffers. Details in the #SundayTimesZA tomorrow