To hear many South African Zionists, one would think there can be no good grounds, or unsullied motives, for impugning the state of Israel. All criticism apparently boils down to ignorance or worse, anti-Semitic prejudice. The Mail & Guardian, which makes no bones about its hearty dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government, has been repeatedly accused of anti-Semitism in recent years.
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/ 28 October 2004
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”American singer-songwriter Randy Newman’s Political Science offers a clue to that most baffling of enigmas: How can a murderous clown like George W Bush seriously contend for re-election as president of the United States, the world’s richest and most technically advanced nation? After four years of failure on every front?” Drew Forrest analyses the psychology of the hard-core Republican vote.
Just how relevant is the Township Residential Property Markets (TRPM) survey — released last week amid fanfare — to the mass of poor township residents? The survey found the secondary property market in townships was "dysfunctional", with only 8% of houses subject to a secondary transaction over five years.
Research conducted for Germany’s influential Friedrich Ebert Stiftung has warned that eight million Zimbabweans — three-quarters of the population — face severe food shortages this year as a result of plunging grain production. The study lays the blame for the impending food crisis squarely on Robert Mugabe’s fast-track land resettlement programme.
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”The government wants to concentrate on what it does best and leave the rest to the experts — while ensuring the experts don’t work against the interests of the people we’re trying to help.” In the last of the series, Drew Forrest puts 10 Really Diabolical Posers (RDPs) to ANC deputy secretary general Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele
”Patricia [de Lille] is a waffler, and not an organisational person. She’s a creation of the media, because she’s done a good job for white liberals. They’ve made her famous because of her attacks on the ANC. She’s done nothing for people on the ground.” Notorious settler Drew Forrest fires 10 bullets at Pan Africanist Congress deputy president Themba Godi.
”Affirmative action is creating a new discrimination, an angry new generation of young whites. Research indicates that if the employment equity quotas were enforced with 1,9% economic growth, 600 000 whites would have to be fired.” Drew Forrest hands out this week’s tien van die beste to Freedom
Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder.
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/ 23 February 2004
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”Whites who really accept the new South Africa are with the NNP. An ironic development after 1994 is that the NNP has become the real rainbow party, while the party of liberalism has taken over the role of conservative complainers.” New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk fields 10 pre-election curve-balls.
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/ 16 February 2004
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”Our 400-odd large companies can’t absorb the millions of black South Africans outside the economic mainstream. You can say we now have black billionaires like Tokyo Sexwale, but they’re not creating jobs.” United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa fields this week’s 10 tough ones from Drew Forrest.