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Category Archives: South Africa

Return of Load Shedding?

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, Eskom threatened to restart load shedding. I just spent 6 hours in the dark at work. City Power Johannesburg’s website makes no mention of resumed load shedding, but I’m still worried.
Is the resumption of load shedding being kept quiet, and passed off as “normal” outages?

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Amazon.com Refuses To Use SA Post Office

Thursday, June 19, 2008

As if our country isn’t ignorant enough already. See PFangirl’s post for details.

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Call For Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants

Friday, May 30, 2008

For a long time, government has indirectly condoned the influx of foreigners by taking a soft stance on illegal immigration, and by denying that there actually is any problem.
Now that xenophobic violence is tearing the country apart, government is doing a stunningly bad job of communicating it’s position to it constituency. Words won’t stem the [...]

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Socialists fanning the flames

Thursday, May 22, 2008

While the rest of South Africa denounces the xenophobic attacks, socialist groups are fanning the flames by saying that capitalists are the enemy.
The hate that we are seeing is clearly motivated by a sense of entitlement. Statements like “foreigners are stealing our jobs, houses and women” prove it. Now these socialist organizations are bolstering that [...]

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