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"Shoot to kill" utterance irresponsible
This is a slightly longer version of a column published under the slightly odd title of “Protect us please”, in City Press on Sunday, 22 November 2009. It is a response to the death of a t… more →
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"Shoot to kill" utterance irresponsible
pumlagqola wrote 2 weeks ago: This is a slightly longer version of a column published under the slightly odd title of “Prote … more →
Jansen legitimises trivialisation of poor Black people
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pumlagqola wrote 1 month ago: This is the longer version of my column in this past weekend (01 November 2009) in the City Press: I … more →
ANCYL gives money to Caster Semenya et al
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pumlagqola wrote 3 months ago: This is quite remarkable, so while I collect my thoughts … According to the SABC: The ANC Yout … more →
Media witch hunt on Semenya will lead to hate crimes
pumlagqola wrote 3 months ago: -Media Statement Gender DynamiX and the Saartjie Baartman Centre- 20 August 2009 This week South Afr … more →
Tokyo Sexwale among the shack dwellers
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pumlagqola wrote 4 months ago: The business mogul, ex-guerilla, ex Premier of Gauteng Province, Tokyo Sexwale spent a night in an i … more →
Apartheid still lives on in SA
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pumlagqola wrote 5 months ago: From The Weekender, 27-8 June 2009 Posted to the web on: 27 June 2009 Apartheid still lives on in SA … more →
Wassup with Zuma's parly
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pumlagqola wrote 6 months ago: I know that all eyes are on the Union Buildings with Jacob Zuma as the fourth president of a democra … more →
2009 Elections: COPE banners rock
pumlagqola wrote 7 months ago: In a previous post, I was particularly tough on COPE for the absent posters so close to the election … more →
2009 Elections: wassup with COPE? (Dandala)
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pumlagqola wrote 8 months ago: What is up with COPE and their presidential candidate? I have read the justifications in the papers … more →
2009 elections: where are the COPE posters?
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pumlagqola wrote 8 months ago: It is hard to go anywhere in Johannesburg these days without seeing all sorts of election posters. T … more →
RIP Susan Tsvangirai
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pumlagqola wrote 9 months ago: Susan Tsvangirai died in a car accident last Friday, and I know that her husband, Morgan, has said h … more →
sex and the SA presidencies (1)
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pumlagqola wrote 10 months ago: Last week, and the weekend before, headlines of first the Sunday Independent and then The Star screa … more →
COPE, ANC and the legal wranglings (1)
pumlagqola wrote 1 year ago: I must say that all the legal wrangling between Shikota (COPE) and the ANC is more ridiculous and pr … more →
Mbeki letter to Zuma in full
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pumlagqola wrote 1 year ago: Over the last week or so, newspapers and other news avenues have talked incessantly about the letter … more →
Zim Riot Police beat up and arrest women protesting talks
pumlagqola wrote 1 year ago: PRESS RELEASE 27October 2008 Harare: RIOT police in Harare, today descended on hundreds of women thi … more →
Zimbabwe agreement not gender neutral
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pumlagqola wrote 1 year ago: As I listened to the live coverage of the signing, I was struck by consistent absences in the report … more →
