· January, 2006

Stories about South Africa from January, 2006

The Moveable Feast: Eat the World in Ten Blogs

  14 January 2006

#1Have you ever wondered how the soldiers in Iraq spent the holiday season?  This is the day when you will get the scoop, first hand by Chairbone Stranger, an American soldier deployed somewhere very dusty in Iraq. His Christmas eve dinner report will leave you speechless, well, at least for...

South Africa; Tag Africa

13 January 2006

White Africa points to the “Africa” Tag over at 1000Tags.com …..Well, I thought this would be the first (and maybe last) place that WhiteAfrican.com would try and do some advertising. Mostly because by starting the tag “AFRICA”, I thought it would be a huge help to all of the other...

South Africa: corrupt police

12 January 2006

Jo'blog comments on illegal acts by police officiers – a traffic chief for stealing R22million and a local policeman for driving patrol without a license for 13 years.

South Africa: Cult of celebrity

12 January 2006

The Imperfect Poet writes on the cult of celebrity which has become the “new religion”.…I love film and music as much as the next person- if not more – but shouldn't we be celebrating the people who are in the trenches changing lives positively. How does 50 Cent's house party...

Zimbabwe: SA Citizenship

  12 January 2006

African Blogs comments on a report that Zimbabwean women are going to South Africa to give birth so their children will have SA citizenship.

SA: Zuma backs anti-corruption

11 January 2006

The Fish Bowl points to a report in the South Africa press that Jacob Zuma is backing Mbeki's anti-corruption stance. Is that ambition or is that amibition?

South Africa: Corruption

11 January 2006

Fodder comments on South Africa deputy president, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka's trip on a South African airforce jet to the UAE on a private holiday.

South Africa: Iraqi comment

10 January 2006

South African blog The Front Line comments on a story on “Muslim scholars being paid to aid US propaganda”……”Does Democracy need to be established and maintained by Propaganda and War? Just recently we heard about the US take-over of Iraqi print media to spread propaganda and now we got the...

Music from SA & Benin

  6 January 2006

Music blog, Benn loxo du taccu posts some music from Benin by Gangbé Brass Band and some Elvis imitation from South Africa.

South AFrica: AIDS orphans

6 January 2006

Mzansi Afrika reports on an orphanage in Soweto for children whose parents have died of AIDS. She challenges the South African and world community to think beyond the “days of public awareness” such as World AIDS Day…”There seems to be a tendency for people in our community to show their...

South Africa: Colour bar in local hotel?

5 January 2006

The Fish Bowl questions South African politician Patricia de Lille (leader of the Independent Democrats) assertion that racism was behind her refused entry into an international hotel in Cape Town.…..”Call me cynical, but this just seems like another one of De Lille's publicity antics, and I doubt that it will...