Blacks say Zille “deserves a bullet”. And her response?

Last week Sunday morning I woke up to a group debate on Facebook that challenged (or did it invite?) people to share their views on whether Democratic Alliance leader and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille was “still” haunted by her 20 March tweet in which she referred to pupils from Eastern Cape province seeking better education in hers as “education refugees”. To date Zille had on more than two occasions written about the incident.

What DASO Ads achieved

Media reports claimed this week that Makashule Gana of Democratic Alliance Student Organisation said the party’s posters (see below) with the message “In OUR future you wouldn’t look twice (to what?)” were meant to create a debate about race – and they did.

Why I believe ANC Political School groomed Juju to insult elders

That President Jacob Zuma took the stand just after African National Youth League president Julius Malema reportedly insulted opposition (although I prefer to call them alternative) Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille and calling her a “ cockroach” is embarrassing. At least to me, that is.

Media portrayed ‘this election as if they are all about service delivery’?

Just a few hours before last week’s local government elections, I received an inbox message from what seemed like an African National Congress loyalist urging about 171 of his Facebook friends to use our “democratic right” to “vote for the ANC”. The loyalist went even further, bizzarely nogal, to claim that the South African Media had portrayed the election as if it was all about service delivery when, in fact, we should be fighting for “economic freedom”. Really?

If Twitter was IEC and one’s followers were voters…

I have been following certain trends on the social network web sites and have found it amazing that some leaders are more vocal and visible than others. These, among others, include leaders who have a lot of followers and engage them a lot and those that are just there but not active.