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POPSZ news - What the SABC didn't want you to see Mail & Gaurdian puts up SABC unedited special assignment clip on internet but then gets sued. http://www.zapiro.com/scripts/Zapiro/hfclient.isa?A=Zapiro_Live&L=0O1242483095&AS=FIND|MP|99.00.01&F=2 Z-News seeks new online platform The producers of Z News, a news satire co-developed by award winning South African cartoonist Zapiro, is seeking alternative distribution channels after the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) pulled the plug on the show before the pilot even aired. The SABC reportedly spent close to R1 million on development before the show got canned. The producers are currently in discussions with numerous major online publishers to offer them a daily feed of the show, with revenue being generated through a mix of syndication fees, sponsorship/ advertising and mobile downloads. "It�s a new model for South Africa, but potentially a great way to bypass TV and provide uniquely local, healthy and much needed satire."
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POPSAn awful & debilitating condition called "life"
The doctors of convicted South African fraudster, Schabir Shaik, confirmed that he is in the final stages of a terminal condition called "life", and that the condition is irreversible. "We can only pray he makes it through the next 30 years," said one. "Each day that goes past the sufferer loses about 24 hours." Schabir Shaik, a South African businessman from Durban, rose to prominence due to his close association with former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma. On 2 June 2005, he was found guilty of corruption and fraud. Zuma was dismissed as Deputy President, two weeks later. On May 8, 2006, Zuma found not guilty of rape. Zuma is the current President of the ANC. The South African Arms Deal was a US$4,8 billion (R30 billion in 1999 rands) purchase of weaponry by the S An Government, finalised in 1999, which has been subject to allegations of corruption. British and German investigators suspect that bribes of over one billion rand were paid to facilitate the deal.
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POPSSteve Biko freedom CRY Steve Biko's legacy lives on through the struggle he helped to ignite and through the freedoms that South Africans now possess. While in Medical School, Biko became involved in NUSAS (National Union Of South African Students), a non-racial students' union In 1968, Steve Biko became the cofounder and first president of the all-Black South African Students' Organization (SASO) The primary aim of the organization was to raise black consciousness in South Africa through lectures and community activities. Biko concluded that the apartheid system had a psychological effect on the Black population, which had caused Blacks to internalize and believe Whites' racist stereotypes. According to Biko, Blacks had been convinced that they were inferior to Whites, which resulted in the hopelessness that was prevalent in the Black community. Biko preached Black solidarity to "break the chains of oppression". In the final years of apartheid, the national students' unions remerged.
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POPShelen suzman "right and wrong." While she went tirelessly into squatter camps, townships and prisons to see for herself things that were often almost indescribably awful and sad, she never lost her sense of humour. A share of arguments. Ed Hall, Strathpine, Australia "South Africa is the world's rape and murder capital, nearly all victims black. Twenty per cent of South African's have A.I.D.S. , which probably equates to 25% of blacks. S.A. cannot afford suitable drugs. Do-gooders are worse than racists!"
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POPSMore on 'false flag' attacks continues: The horrible execution method of “necklacing,” putting a burning tire over the necks of victims that would burn them to death, was carried out by apartheid agents provocateurs to damage the reputation of the ANC, Mbeki told the commission. Some of the gruesome videotaped beheadings carried out on Westerners in Iraq may also have been carried out by agents provocateurs on the payroll of U.S. and other intelligence services... read more
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POPSANC split good for democracy Mr Lekota is a close ally of former South African President Thabo Mbeki who was forced to step down last month. The governing party is divided between supporters of Mr Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, who won a bitter party contest to become ANC leader last year
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POPSSA unions blast attempt to split ANC "We believe that it would have been possible to resolve differences within the structures of the ANC if there was a genuine will to debate the issues in good faith," Sadtu said in a statement. "We suspect, however, that the decision to exit the ANC was taken long ago, and that the recent pronouncements of Comrade Lekota amount to a publicity stunt to drum up interest in the splinter grouping. "Sadtu leadership is confident that our 235 000 members will not be misled by the lies of the disgruntled elements represented by Lekota." "These elements have cut themselves off from the democratic traditions of the ANC," the union said.
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POPSThe rape of South African justice
Julius Memela and his ANC gang of thugs have threatened to kill the cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro). (They sounds like Islamic fundamentalist to me). Please note, neither Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela nor Jacob Zuma have made any public statements to quell the anger or subdue the threats. The entire head and heart of this country is corrupt and the tragedy is, we have simply supplanted one tyrannical government with another. (Please note Jacob Zuma, our ex vice-president and now future president, a man with no class, integrity or even education, and many wives and countless children and very sticky sticky fingers, was acquitted of raping a young HIV positive LESBIAN female He never denied having sex with her (assuring us that he had taken the necessary precautions against HIV by showering afterwards). He claimed it was CONSENTUAL(sic) - with a LESBIAN!!!??? . And he got away with it. But the public have not forgotten. Hence Zapiro's portrayal of Zuma wearing a shower-ca
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POPSNelson Rolihlahla Mandela Turns 90 Today Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa before becoming the country's first black president. Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa's white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. The government outlawed the ANC in 1960. Mandela was captured and jailed in 1962, and in 1964 he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. Instead of disappearing from view, Mandela became a prison-bound martyr and worldwide symbol of resistance to racism. South African President F.W. de Klerk finally lifted the ban on the ANC and released Mandela in 1990. Mandela used his stature to help dismantle apartheid and form a new multi-racial democracy, and he and de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Mandela was elected the country's president in 1994. He served until 1999, when he was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki.
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POPS'Worse than apartheid' Nablus is closed off by six checkpoints. Until 2005, one of them was open. "The checkpoints are supposedly for security purposes, but anyone who wants to perpetrate an attack can pay NIS 10 for a taxi and travel by bypass roads, or walk through the hills. The real purpose is to make life hard for the inhabitants. The civilian population suffers," says Said Abu Hijla, a lecturer at Al-Najah University in the city. In the bus I get acquainted with my two neighbours: Andrew Feinstein, a son of Holocaust survivors who is married to a Muslim woman from Bangladesh and served six years as an MP for the ANC ; and Nathan Gefen, who has a male Muslim partner and was a member of the right-wing Betar movement in his youth. Gefen is active on the Committee against AIDS in his AIDS-ravaged country.
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POPSWhen Journalist LIE, Innocence Dies! Rarely since the WW2 has a people been so vilified as the Palestinians. Rarely has a people been so frequently excused and placated as the Israelis. Israeli embassies are now buttonholing editors around the world, saying that it's not fair to call Israel's PM "hard-line". And the reporters are falling into line. ... R Fisk I think he should know.
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POPSUSA shamed by Mandela terror link: Apartheid connections! If I was choosing a candidate for sainthood, then there would be one at the top of my list and with a big gap to the next candidate. Saint Nelson, the peacemaker sounds good to me! Now remember, officially he's a terrorist! ! ! I say this on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Peace Agreement.
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POPSANC's Thatcherism responsible for Eskom load shedding -- Cosatu Cosatu has drawn attention to one aspect of the electricity supply crisis that hasn't received much attention in the media. Cosatu does not blame Eskom management, but the government's mania for privatisation. And if that is true, then the heads have already rolled -- at the ANC conference in December. And then it is just a question whether wiser heads replace them.
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POPSSouth Africa's corrupt Government Our government is rotten and putrid with vice and corruption from the head down. Our next president elect, Jacob Zuma, is facing numerous counts of bribery and corruption and yet he has the majority ANC support. He has also been accused of rape. A once affluent country is sliding down to match the rest of Africa. I could scream with frustration and despair.
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POPSOnly Pol Pot has a worse Human Rights Record?!
No country with such a record, whether first or 50th worst in the world, can credibly protest a boycott. Apartheid South Africa provides another useful standard. How does Israel's behavior toward Palestinians compare to former South Africa's treatment of blacks? It is similar or worse, say a number of South Africans, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, U.N. special rapporteur in the occupied territories John Dugard, and African National Congress member and government minister Ronnie Kasrils. The latter observed recently that apartheid South Africa never used fighter jets to attack ANC activists, and judged Israel's violent control of Palestinians as "10 times worse." Dual laws for Jewish settlers and Palestinians, segregated roads and housing, and restrictions on Palestinians' freedom of movement strongly recall apartheid South Africa. If boycotting apartheid South Africa was appropriate, it is equally fair to boycott Israel on a similar record. Israel has been singled out, but n
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POPSNelson Mandela retreats from public life There's a saying amongst the Zulus, "When the bulls fight, the grass gets trampled". That is what is happening. Mbeki's term as President is drawing to a close, despite his attempts to extend it another term. Now he wants to be head of the ANC, the current ruling party. The bulls are beginning to fight and the country is going to suffer. The recent COSATU trade union strike was all about political infighting and had nothing to do with wage increases for the workers, and it's the striking workers, too blind to see it, who paid the price. I think everything is pointing to a civil war and Mandela's death will probably be the catalyst. Africa has never settled its disputes through the ballot box, but always through the barrel of a gun.
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