Archive
Year: 2010
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WEF in Tanzania More Than a Talk Shop
May 7, 2010
The World Economic forum in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania has proven to be more of a beneficial and productive exercise than the talk shop most of us here thought it would be. The quality of the sessions and the participants clearly showed that the organisers did their homework and are serious about helping African countries and their economies take their rightful place amongst the community of nations...
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Elections Signal a New Hope for Sudan
April 20, 2010
The recent multi party elections in Sudan, although a subject of much contestation, remain a living proof that the much troubled country will at last achieve what has been most elusive for a long period of time, relative peace. While it would be naive for anyone to expect an election, especially held under the circumstances that the Sudan elections were held, to correct the wrongs of the recent past in that vast country, it can...
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South Africans Still a Polarised Society
April 6, 2010
The recent public outcry over the singing of the struggle song “Kill the Boer” by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema proves beyond doubt that South Africa is a highly polarised society. This issue has been further aggravated by the recent killing of AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, who was found bludgeoned to death at his farm in the North West Province...
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Ke Nako – It’s Time
March 30, 2010
It certainly is time, our time. Never before has one event excited so many South Africans and hopefully Africans. Six years ago in May 2004, FIFA awarded the 2010 FIFA World Cup to SA. In the six years following that SA has upgraded airports, hotels, guest houses, built magnificent new stadiums and exposed our country and continent to the best footballers on the planet and the thousands of supporters who follow them...
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Through the Eyes of a 7-Year-Old Girl – Mandela Walks Free
February 11, 2010
On this day, when South Africans celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela, Nomathemba Malinga, Fleishman-Hillard Johannesburg Account Manager, recounts her memories of that historic day...
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2010 Soccer World Cup – Judge South Africa on Its Record
February 11, 2010
Recent comments about safety concerns regarding the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, attributed to world sporting luminaries such as Brazilian soccer legend, Pele and Uli Hoeness, president of Bayern Munich in Germany, cannot go unchallenged...
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Leave the Media to Do Its Job
January 20, 2010
The furore surrounding the flighting of an interview with two self-confessed criminals by etv has surely raised the ire of the head honchos down Police Avenue. For those who have not been following the story, Last week our “most trusted” television station flighted the interview where the two “scums” threatened to rob tourists coming into the country for the 2010 Soccer World Cup...