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Truth to Power: July 2011
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Friday, July 29, 2011. My published letter is above. Click on it to read it in larger format. Below is my original, which cited two further instances of moral torpidity. A reading of the Review section of the Sunday Times last week (July 17) provided a disturbing insight into the moral malaise afflicting this country. Three points stood out:. This just a week after their three-week midyear holidays. Monday, July 18, 2011. Prof Jonathan Jansen on education. Jansen calls “routines and rituals” ...Meanwhile...
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Truth to Power: Putting Pinky in her place
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Monday, August 29, 2011. Putting Pinky in her place. Pinky Khoabane simply bristles with a Mugabe-like desire for revenge and retribution in “Sorry arch, but now it’s too little and too late” (August 21). And of course it is her white South African compatriots who are again in her sights. Instead of blaming the ANC for failing, over the past 17 years, to institute a working education system which would have helped economically empower black people, Khoabane falls back on the old trick of blaming whites t...
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Truth to Power: Sadtu's baleful influence
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Friday, July 29, 2011. My published letter is above. Click on it to read it in larger format. Below is my original, which cited two further instances of moral torpidity. A reading of the Review section of the Sunday Times last week (July 17) provided a disturbing insight into the moral malaise afflicting this country. Three points stood out:. This just a week after their three-week midyear holidays. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). KIN BENTLEY - SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS.
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Truth to Power: August 2011
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Monday, August 29, 2011. Putting Pinky in her place. Pinky Khoabane simply bristles with a Mugabe-like desire for revenge and retribution in “Sorry arch, but now it’s too little and too late” (August 21). And of course it is her white South African compatriots who are again in her sights. Instead of blaming the ANC for failing, over the past 17 years, to institute a working education system which would have helped economically empower black people, Khoabane falls back on the old trick of blaming whites t...
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Truth to Power: Response to Pallo Jordan article
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Monday, September 19, 2011. Response to Pallo Jordan article. Last Sunday, September 18, 2011, the lead on the letters page of the Sunday Times was a good one. It dealt with two articles the previous week on the Review pages of the newspaper, one of them by Pallo Jordan, the ANC cabinet minister. I submitted a letter in response to the same article, but it was not published. It is carried below. Consider these words from Jordan: “The secular cultural impact of the movement initiated by the Christia...
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Truth to Power: May 2012
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Sunday, May 6, 2012. Why Jeremy Cronin is wrong. The Sunday Times did not see fit to use my letter attacking Deputy Transport Minister Jeremy Cronin's article in the newspaper last weekend, although four other letters on the issue were used. This is what I submitted:. How convenient for Jeremy Cronin to ignore the numerous positive impacts which colonialism had on the world, including South Africa. Yet this begs the question: where would we have been without European colonisation? Cronin’s anti-col...
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Truth to Power: Nationalising South Africa's mines
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Thursday, August 11, 2011. Nationalising South Africa's mines. Julius Malema and the ANC Youth League have been calling for the nationalisation of South Africa's mines. What sort of impact is this having? This is how a Reuters correspondent reported on the issue on August 10, 2011. Consider what effect such a report might have on potential investors overseas. This is the report:. JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s ruling. African National Congress is at war with itself over calls to. And 6 percent of GDP.
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Truth to Power: March 2011
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Friday, March 18, 2011. The fight to save Mgwali. I wrote this piece at the time (the last leg of copy is below). It was published in the Daily Dispatch in November, 1982. I was 26 years old. Please click on the images to see them at a readable size. Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Fighting apartheid in the 1970s. But of course youngsters do have other things on their minds, and this little letter, published in the Dispatch on August 22, 1974, when I was still 17, shows the impact of the hippie era. The next w...
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Truth to Power: May 2011
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Monday, May 9, 2011. My article, published in the Weekend Post, on March 3, 2011. Click on it to read it full-size. Then came some follow-up letters and SMS, which are always interesting to see. Often, sadly, my "supporters" add a racist dimension I never intended. Will black Africans ever accept that, for all its failings, colonialism was a necessary step in this country's development? Some more SMS responses from the following week (not the bottom one, which is about another issue).
