· December, 2005

Stories about South Africa from December, 2005

South Africa: how to get rich

30 December 2005

White African points to an essay on how to become a millionaire……..Paul Graham’s essay’s are all incredibly well written and great reads. I particularly enjoyed “How to Make Wealth“, here’s a quote:

South Africa: Rating the Cabinet

29 December 2005

Farrel Lifson writes in Politics.za about report card rating South African cabinet. President Thabo Mbeki gets a B.

South Africa: Nelson Mandela Sq

26 December 2005

Mzansi Afrika points to some photographs of Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg, South Africa which ironically is situated in “most upmarket shopping and dining destinations. The area is situated in the exclusive northern suburbs of Johannesburg, and is surrounded by luxury hotels”.

South Africa: Australia, racism – not cricket

22 December 2005

South African reports that Australia's racist hooligans are still on the rampage this time hurling abuse at the SA cricket team….”The latest news coming out of Australia is that South Africa's cricketers were racially abused and called “kaffirs” and “kaffir boeties” during the first Test in Perth. This kind of...

SA: fake US accents

21 December 2005

Mzansi Afrika complains about the use of “fake American accents” by promo ads especially on music radio………But this whole adopting of the American accent thing, especially when you've never set foot in America – I just don't get it. What's wrong with our own ethnic African accents? Why do you...

SA: Loosing Nigerians

  19 December 2005

South Africa writes about the Home Affairs dept loosing 200 people who flew in from Nigeria on a SAA flight and the failure of the government to “punish” whoever was responsible.

South Africa: Gay marriage

15 December 2005

Fodder from South Africa reports on the move towards gay marriage in the country. “Firstly a large part of the argument against gay marriage is that it'll weaken marriage as a union between two people. But lets be honest here – marriage is already in crisis and thus far it...

Uganda: Jewish community

  14 December 2005

Mzansi Afrika has a post on the Jewish community in Uganda..”I had no idea that Uganda is home to a small ethnic Jewish community. They live in the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale and are known as the Abayudaya, which is the Luganda word for Jews.The community was founded by...

South Africa

13 December 2005

South Africa provides some “food for thought” on South African media.…Four major newspaper groups – Independent Newspapers, Johnnic Communications, Naspers and CTP/Caxton, dominate the South African print media market.

South Africa: Spying in Zimbabwe

13 December 2005

The Fish Bowl reports on the arrest of a South African spy for running an espionage ring in Zimbabwe! ciommenting “If that's the only thing we, and the people of Zimbabwe, get out of quiet diplomacy, it really has been a waste of time..”

  12 December 2005

Mzansi Afrika reports about the policy of evictions in African urban centers – this time in Lagos Nigeria….”Police broke down the gate of a huge housing complex to oust thousands of civil servants and their families last Friday in the latest mass eviction by a government struggling to gain control...

The week that was in the South African blogosphere

10 December 2005

Jonty at The Fishbowl comments on the findings of a new survey showing that Afrikaners have experienced the “most radical change in political outlook” of all groups since the 1994 elections. “This is probably understandable, given that by fair assumption that Afrikaners had the furthest to move politically after the...

FOSS for women in Africa

7 December 2005

Linux Chix Africa reports on the FOSS training presently taking place for African women – participants are from Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon, Zambia, Sudan, Cameroon, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Senegal

South Africa: Blogs

6 December 2005

White African goes ahead and highlights some of his friends blogs….”Good writers all of them, and well worth a read” .

SA: Apartheid

6 December 2005

Mzansi Afrika wonders how apartheid South Africa “dealt” with Black foreigners…..? “Did a black African from Swaziland, Lesotho, Senegal or Mali have to carry a pass? I suppose not, but one never knows. Were these foreigners treated in the same way as black South Africans were? If so, how about...

South AFrica: made in China

5 December 2005

South African blog, The Fish Bowl writes on a “storm of protest at this weekend's Cosatu rally when it was discovered that the official Cosatu T-shirts were made in China“.

South Africa: rape of children

5 December 2005

Mzansi Afrika has a horrific report on rapes of young children in South Africa connected to beliefs that sex with a virgin can cure AIDS……..One study commissioned by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Recociliation provides a partial explanation of why so many girls are being raped. Obviously...

World AIDS Day: Zambia, Southern Africa

  2 December 2005

Jewels in the Jungle writing on World AIDS Day focuses on Zambia and Southern Africa in particular the documentary film by Sierra Leone filmmaker Sorious Samura. The film “Living with AIDS is the third in a special series preceded by Living with Hunger and Living with Refugees. The video was...