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Freedom

Xenophobia: It’s Mbeki’s Fault

Cassette Hate Mugabe Too

Mr Mbeki, (I have given up calling you President, sir) the “xenophobia” and resulting violence which is gaining rampant coverage in the press these days is your fault. Yours alone.

The South African people have been as accomodating as they can towards foreign nationals, but there comes a time when enough is enough. Zimbabweans have been streaming across the border with little resistance from us and our police for many years. We accepted them with open arms because they were placed in exile by tyranny and economic need, and because they are hard workers and were simply looking for opportunities to better their lives. Unfortunately there aren’t that many opportunities here either, so inevitably some South Africans started losing out to Zimbabweans. (or other nationalities, but I choose to presume the majority of these foreigners are Zimbabwean). Can you blame your people for being angry at losing what little birthright they have to another person from another land? Of course I do not support the manner in which this discontent has been expressed.

But, Mr Mbeki, you have had every damn opportunity to fix Zimbabwe and you just mucked around. You let a tyrant destroy one of the strongest and richest and most beautiful countries in Africa on your watch, and you did it with a cheap grin on your face. This mess is your fault Thabo. Instead of being decisive and forcing Mugabe out of power, you rambled on with your quiet diplomacy BS. And now it is happening again – we can sense that Mugabe is going to steal control of his country Zimbabwe again, which will only worsen things.

Yes of course I’m angry. Your people are angry. The immigrants Your guests are angry. Grow some damn balls and fix this mess. Please.

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Asides Entertainment Humor

Hayibo.com Spreading Like Wildfire

Over the past week three independent sources have shown up with the words “hayibo.com” on their lips. Hayibo’s got a great flavour of satire to their stuff – just enough humour but almost believable when taken in the african context… Check it out.

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Computing

Last.fm iTunes Plugin Now (Offline-)Scrobbles Manually Updated iPods!

Good news for all of us using iTunes with a manually updated iPod. We previously were forced to use the still-brilliant “iScrobbler” iTunes plugin to get tracks that were played on an unsynced iPod onto last.fm. This is no longer the exclusive domain of iScrobbler. The latest last.fm official iTunes plugin recognises manually managed iPods and gets their play data scrobbled up automatically to last.fm within a few seconds after plugging the iPod in.

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Sports

Oscar Pistorius – Time 100 Most Influential Person

Time Magazine has just released their Top 100 Most Influential People, and the list includes South Africa’s very own double amputee Para-almost-Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius.

A quick look at the list puts him in some spectacular company. You go guy.

[Link to the Time 100 Article]