Raila Odinga – a Kenyan Prime Minister who once claimed to be US President Barack Obama’s cousin – delivered a moving speech to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Moran Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change party this year that “40 or 50 years since many African nations attained independence, we [Africans] cannot continue blaming the colonialists for our problems”. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
Africa, Barack Obama, Morgan Tsvangirai, Movement for Democratic Change (pre-2005), Orange Democratic Movement, Raila Odinga, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
Raila Odinga on why Africans “cannot continue blaming the colonialists” for its problems
In Politics on July 9, 2011 at 1:22 PMAfghanistan, African National Congress, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Iraq, Location of Osama bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan
SA govt. hopes Bin Laden’s death contributes to peace
In Politics on May 2, 2011 at 4:49 PMThe South African government, led by the African National Congress, issued a statement on Monday night saying it hoped the death of Osama Bin Laden “will greatly contribute towards a peaceful resolution in Afghanistan,Iraq and Pakistan”. Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama, Decision Points, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Helen Zille, Julius Malema, Oprah Winfrey, Trevor Manuel
“Don’t call me racist, it hurts”, George Bush tells Oprah Winfrey
In Politics on May 2, 2011 at 9:50 AMIf former US President George Bush lived in South Africaand had been called a ‘racist’, I think he would have died a long time ago from heart attack because the poor man can’t stand being called such because it “hurts” him quite a lot. Read the rest of this entry »
Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Osama Bin Laden, September 11 attacks, Terrorism, United States, White House
Is Barack Obama a murderer with a ‘good cause’?
In Politics on May 2, 2011 at 7:14 AMIt is now well recorded that many people are rejoicing around the world at the brutal murder of the terrorist Al-Qaeda leader and alleged reputed mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Osama Bin Laden, which was announced by theUSPresident Barack Obama during a news conference last night in the White House. Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama, Harvard University, Jacob Zuma, John Distaso, Oprah Winfrey, South Africa, South African Broadcasting Corporation, United States
My Open Letter to Donald Trump
In Uncategorized on May 1, 2011 at 10:26 PMIt is with such great displeasure and disgust that I have to write this open letter to you. If you were next to me at the time of writing this I probably would have given you a piece of my mind and told you to go to a place where there are no black people – which, of course, does not exist as you very well know expect that they do not exist in your head – or I would have told you to go and hang yourself. Read the rest of this entry »