The Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard was monitoring Mitt Romney’s campaign homepage during the US elections and was a little surprised when Mitt claimed victory.
Yesterday campaigning for the US elections officially ended, with voting starting today. In a final bid to rally people behind him, Barack Obama’s last couple of events for the day featured the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z.
A new politial party which wants Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to be the next ANC president, has been registered. They are calling themselves the South African National Congress. No-one knows who the founders are and the ANC are NOT digging the name..
Well, that’s if you go along with the ‘Redskin Rule’, a bizarre correlation that has predicted the US presidential election for the last 72 years – except one but we’ll get to that*. It’s pretty simple: If the Washington Redskins win their last home game before election day, the incumbent party wins; if the redskins lose, the opposition takes the election.
Former president FW de Klerk is clearly being racist in his latest attack against the ANC, as he came out firing during a business-related speech – punishing the ANC for everything from wealth distribution to not being able to attract international investment. Check it out: This from News24: South Africa’s last apartheid president F W de Klerk […]
Michael Moore, the man behind the hit documentary ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ is not known to shy away from controversy. Such is the nature of the new ad he made for MoveOn.org. It features old women, swearing. Check it out.
Yesterday the presidency dropped their lawsuit against cartoonist Jonathan “Zapiro” Shapiro and the Sunday Times over the “Lady Justice” cartoon (pic above). Jacob Zuma initially wanted R5m, but the amount was later reduced to R4m. He subsequently dropped the charge of impairment of dignity and further reduced the amount to R100 000 for defamation and an unconditional apology, before dropping the case entirely.
Last week Friday it was controversially announced that funding for the families of the Marikana shooting was to be withdrawn, as no basis in law existed for it. Justice Minister Jeff Radebe announced this morning that this decision has now been reversed, and the regulations amended.
A newspaper report today says that the tariffs for motorists with e-tags in Gauteng will be set at 30c per kilometre, according to the government gazette.
2oceansvibe is intrigued at Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and his unique circumstances. Imagine being stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. You’re free to live in Ecuador, but you have to get from the embassy to the airport first – and the British police will arrest you if you do. Bizarre.
This morning we told you about Donald Trump’s desire to get his hands on the US President’s records and passport. This is the so-called ‘birther’ movement, with trump at the helm. Last night, Barack Obama, when asked about Trump’s bounty of $5 million, hit back with a light-hearted reply.
CNN endured the ridicule of the Internet yesterday for running a story about women’s votes being ruled by their menstrual cycles. The article was based on unpublished research, and was pulled within hours.
Everyone’s favourite longtime Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, has released a couple of photos of himself to the media. This is in response to recent rumours that a stroke put him in “a neurovegetative state.”
It’s all about the money. Becoming president in the USA costs a lot of dough. Each month, political pundits track fundraising and spending by the political parties, the campaigns and the political action committees, or PAC’s. Check out the top 10 dropping big tom on Romney and Obama.
Speaking to students at the University of Limpopo, our favourite fallen from grace ex-political figure said that South Africa should be taking its cues from Zimbabwe when it comes to staging a successful revolution. This comment comes after a visit to Zimbabwe by Malema over the weekend.
Ironically, a few days after the Film and Publication Appeal Tribunal set aside the “16N” classification of Brett Murray’s controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma: The Spear, a large penis has appeared behind Zuma on The Star’s front page.
“The Zuma family will continue to pay for upgrades in Nkandla which are not linked to state security”, the Presidency said yesterday.
Yesterday, a metro police officer was gunned down in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Mpumelelo Xakekile was shot by two men at the intersection of Mew Way and Lansdowne Road while issuing a fine to minibus taxi driver.
A Russian court today ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich should be freed because guards threw her out of Moscow’s main cathedral before she could even remove her guitar from its case to play in protest of Vladimir Putin.
If you’ve ever been to Scotland, or seen Braveheart, you’ll know that the Scots and the English aren’t the best of friends. Scotland currently operates under its own set of laws, and has a devolved government in Edinburgh, but it is now looking at making things a little more permanent.
“R16 000 [a month] is nothing! It’s peanuts!” These were some of the statements made by Julius Malema yesterday. He was speaking to miners at the Beatrix Mine in Meloding, Free State. This was his first public appearance after being granted bail on a charge of money laundering last month.
Yesterday marked the 60th birthday of recently re-elected Russian President, Vladimir Putin. In celebration of the momentous occasion, the President graced his citizens with a first-person documentary which depicted his abilities as the tireless, hard-working, unexaggerated national treasure that he believes he is.
The Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, has opened an investigation into allegations surrounding the publicly funded construction at the private residence of President Jacob Zuma in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
President Jacob Zuma has not had a good start to the weekend. This morning, a report revealed that he doesn’t own the property that’s being upgraded, and now the Constitutional Court has ruled Zuma’s appointment of Menzi Simelane as National Director of Public Prosecutions is invalid.
An investigation into who actually owns Zumaville has revealed that the land, upon which President Jacob Zuma’s extravagant private residence is built, is land that doesn’t actually belong to him.
The Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi, has come out in defence of the department’s plans to spend R203 million upgrading President Jacob Zuma’s private homestead in Nkandla.
Ask anyone living in South Africa what the biggest issues facing this country are, and if they have two brain cells still knocking together the word “education” will definitely be mentioned. Which is why reading a headline such as this should have you deeply worried.
Poor Gordon Brown. He was due to hold a press conference on Wednesday to discuss his role as the UN special envoy for global education, but only one journalist decided to go.
Nothing gets voters riled-up like some good ol’ celebrity endorsement, and who better to scare someone into voting than the original, badass action movie star, Samuel L. Jackson. In this short clip he urges Americans, quite literally, to “wake the fuck up”.
Julius Malema appeared in the Polokwane Regional Court this morning, and was officially charged with money laundering. This after he allegedly “received proceeds from unlawful activities”. He was granted bail of R10 000.