Comments by former South African Present Thabo Mbeki who reportedly told Uganda newspaper, The Daily Monitor, last week that sexual preferences of people were private matters which government should not intervene have left many with tongues wagging, reminding us of what life is like in that country for many homosexuals. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged ‘Thabo Mbeki’
On Mbeki’s comments and Honouring David Kato
In Media, Politics, Society on January 26, 2012 at 3:59 PMNews is not speculated Ferial Haffejee, maybe analysis
In Media, Politics on January 22, 2012 at 2:13 PMLast weekend South Africans and many across the globe witnessed a City Press newspaper screaming “Mbeki is back”. Without wanting to jump my guns, I read the report to reasonably make up my mind. It was after reading the entire report – and a related one – that I believed the report was speculative and misleading at best, to a reasonable reader, that is. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Groenewald now has the best laugh on Mbeki’s “greatest confidence” in Selebi
In Politics on December 8, 2011 at 8:26 PMFollowing the Supreme Court of Appeal’s rejection of former Police Commissioner Bheki Cele’s appeal last week – I was reminded by Pierre De Vos in his Jackie Selebi finish and klaar analysis of a letter former President Thabo Mbeki wrote in August last year in response to a letter by Freedom Front-Plus’ Peter Groenewald when he asked him to appoint a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the allegations (of corruption) against Selebi but refused. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Willem Heath is heathering on dangerous grounds
In Media, Politics on December 8, 2011 at 4:42 PMPresident Jacob Zuma’s newly appointee and head of Special Investigating Unit, Willem Heath, might be messing up with the wrong man. Or rather, he might find himself in trouble for the defamatory allegations he made about former president Thabo Mbeki in an interview with City Press last week Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
Was Mbeki wrong about Press Freedom in 1996?
In Media on August 14, 2011 at 5:02 PMIn his inauguration speech for the South African National Editors’ Forum in 1996, former President Thabo Mbeki said: “It is my own firm view that Press Freedom in our country is not under threat” and that “no forces or institutions exist within our society which have the strength or power significantly to compromise such freedoms as those of expression and the press”. That was then, this is now. Let’s relive that year. Read the rest of this entry »
