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Raymond Domenech’s true value - €826,222

Raymond Domenech's true value - €826,222

In spite of his denials, Raymond Domenech, rakes in a tidy sum for getting Les Bleus to the World Cup finals It should be interesting to see how the manager of the French national football team, Raymond Domenech, reacts to the news of how much he has (...)

8 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

France : The debate on national identity and the election of its Miss

France : The debate on national identity and the election of its Miss

Millions of French viewers are expected to tune in this weekend to see the televised election of Miss France 2010. Er yes there is a connection between the two and it’s a little less tenuous than might at first appear. And that’s especially (...)

4 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Row continues over Ras Dumisani "singing" South Africa’s national anthem

Row continues over Ras Dumisani "singing" South Africa's national anthem

In Toulouse last Friday the French national rugby team took on the might of the reigning world champions South Africa - and won 20-13. A fantastic victory for Les Bleus over the Springboks, but not the only reason the game made the headlines. Instead (...)

17 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

Paris sways to the Soweto Gospel Choir

Audiences at the Théâtre du Châtelet in the French capital this past week have been delighting in the sights and sounds of the Soweto Gospel Choir. In a run lasting just six days, the group has been serving up its own mix of traditional African gospel (...)

9 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Interview with Dr. Alon Liel, former Israeli ambassador to South Africa

Interview with Dr. Alon Liel, former Israeli ambassador to South Africa

Amongst the impressive items which populate Dr Liel’s CV, the one that stands out the most is his position as the Israeli ambassador to South Africa during the turbulent post-apartheid years between 1992-1994. I recently had the opportunity to (...)

30 jui. 2009 | | Almost Supernatural

South Africans have voted. What did they say?

South Africans have voted. What did they say?

The ANC and Zuma emerge victorious, although a credible opposition shows some signs of developing. By Gregory Mthembu-Salter. South Africans voted in general and provincial elections on April 22nd, the fourth chance they have all had to do so since the (...)

27 Apr. 2009 | | openDemocracy

South Africa’s election : a tainted victory

South Africa's election : a tainted victory

The African National Congress will win a fourth consecutive triumph - yet its dominance of South Africa’s electoral arena is crumbling. By Roger Southall. The triumph of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa’s fourth democratic (...)

8 avr. 2009 | | openDemocracy

South Africa’s Illiberal Foreign Policy Continues

Hot on the heels of the ANC government’s decision to ban his Holiness the Dahlia Lama from attending a peace conference in South Africa, our representative at the United Nation’s Human Rights Council has voted against a resolution on freedom (...)

3 avr. 2009 | | Almost Supernatural

Mbeki’s legacy and why you should vote opposition

Mbeki's legacy and why you should vote opposition

A study from the Harvard School of Public Health published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has asserted that more than 330,000 lives were lost to HIV/AIDS in South Africa from 2000 to 2005. During the same period, a staggering 35,000 (...)

24 oct. 2008 | | Almost Supernatural

A Warm SA Welcome for the President of Sudan

A Warm SA Welcome for the President of Sudan

The degree to which South Africa fawns over tyrants and terrorists never ceases to amaze me and last week was no exception with the warm welcome Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir received from President Thabo Mbeki. If the sycophantic language was not (...)

13 nov. 2007 | | Almost Supernatural

Nelson Mandela dead : George W.Bush

Nelson Mandela dead : George W.Bush

I heard somebody say, Where’s Mandela ?’ Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.” Honoured African leader Nerlson Mandela dead ? And at the hand of Saddam Hussein ? Really ? Yup. And the statement has (...)

24 sep. 2007 | | Jon Newton

South Africa : thoughts on the Leon resignation

Let’s get into it. Mulling over the past few days events I am struck by the fact that nobody has really given much thought and analysis as to why Tony Leon is resigning. Sure there is the story he’s sticking to and the pundits have all lined (...)

30 nov. 2006 | | Someamongus

Positive Discrimination is Discrimination

Beeld newspaper on Monday [reported] that the top white students undergoing flight training in the air force would not be trained as fighter pilots because they had to make way for black students. Lieutenant-General Carlo Gagiano, chief of the air force, (...)

14 nov. 2006 | | Someamongus

SABC Blacklist Scandal

The Johannesburg High Court yesterday dismissed the SABC’s application to have its “blacklisting” report removed from the Mail & Guardian website. The commissioners of the report recommended its full publication but the SABC only (...)

16 oct. 2006 | | Almost Supernatural

SA Foreign Policy : Morally Bear

The Russian bear has begun to awake from its international hibernation. Awash with petro-rubles, Vladimir Putin is reasserting Russian influence as a counterweight to American hegemony. South Africa is all too eager to join this growing counter-Western (...)

8 sep. 2006 | | Almost Supernatural

2010: Why South Africa will lose the World Cup

Germany! The World Cup is in full swing and the host country has proven that it can run a world class event. Logistically something like the Soccer World Cup is a massive challenge: accommodation, transport and safety are key concerns, but on top of that (...)

3 Jul. 2006 | 17 comments | James Francis

South African Muslim Lobby Group Tainted by Terror

Media Review Network (MRN)

The Media Review Network (MRN) is a Muslim advocacy group based in Pretoria. They portray themselves as the de facto voice of the South African Muslim community. They have been at the forefront of the media campaign to delegitimise the Jewish State in (...)

5 jui. 2006 | | Almost Supernatural

Jesus for J.Z.

Several gospel groups and churches are running large campaigns to aid Jacob Zuma, the disgraced former deputy president of South Africa, and his defense fund - not to mention his hopes for being President. But Zuma’s loud supporters are a minority; (...)

18 May. 2006 | | James Francis

Fall from Grace: Zuma’s Innocence

Fall from Grace: Zuma's Innocence

Former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma has been found not guilty on rape charges. But this small victory rings hollow in a political arena that needs to admit its shortcomings. Jacob Zuma has been found not guilty. He is completely exonerated (...)

9 May. 2006 | | James Francis

South African Immoral Equivalence

On the backdrop of my previous posts asking whether President Mbeki can make a serious contribution to peace between Israelis and Palestinians, this item further shows how South Africa may only further polarise the two sides. The Jerusalem Post details (...)

21 avr. 2006 | | Almost Supernatural

We need more fear !

Just seen the very interesting ’V for Vendetta’. Was it a nice bit of agitprop cinema, hell yeah ! Was it about the Bush administration, hell yeah ! Can we take a bit of the message and apply it to our own country, hell yeah ! ’People (...)

18 avr. 2006 | | Someamongus

Swastika Artist : It Was Aimed at the Devil !

We are still waiting for a ruling in South Africa’s first anti-Semitism case to be heard in the equity court. Gerhard Barkhuizen is accused of painting a swastika on a wall facing his Jewish neighbour, Yaron Fishman. There was also Hebrew writing (...)

17 mar. 2006 | | Almost Supernatural

South African Elections : Q&A with the ID

Next in our ’Q&A with the Parties’ series is the Independent Democrats (ID). For this interview we were fortunate enough to have Mr Simon Grindrod in the hotseat (Mr Grindrod is mayoral candidate for the ID in the Cape Town Metro). So (...)

23 fév. 2006 | | Someamongus

Jay-Z’s trial in South Africa : the BIG day arrives

Well it was all on at the Jo’burg High Court yesterday. Jay-Z’s legal team took no prisoners as they demanded Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe recuse himself from the trial for a supposed bias/prior involvement in matters involving (...)

14 fév. 2006 | | Someamongus

Land Reform in South Africa

Let me start off by saying that land reform is here to stay and those who think that this issue will go away are sadly mistaken. If we look at the entire land reform process with this fact as a starting point it makes many of the accompanying (...)

8 fév. 2006 | | Someamongus

South Africa : ANC Election Manifesto

Anyone reading about the launch of the ANC’s local government "manifesto" could be forgiven for feeling that they were caught in a time warp. All that seemed to have happened was that the 2000 edition was taken off the shelf, sexed-up a (...)

9 jan. 2006 | | Someamongus

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