Posted by Tony on Jun 1, 2008 in
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I don’t know if you saw this recently — but it’s an actual screen capture of President Mbeki’s diary, as published on government’s own website. I wish I was making it up, but I’m not:
(Source: http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/diary.asp?show=President%20Mbeki)
No, you nerd, the important thing here is not that he only scored a Google pagerank of 4/10 for importance (relative to Jacob Zuma whose Wikipedia page scores 6/10, making him 20% more important). It’s the fact that his official diary is telling us what we’ve all known for years. He’s not doing anything.
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Posted by Tony on Oct 21, 2007 in
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I’m tired of hearing how I need to play a role in fighting crime. In the wake of Lucky Dube’s shooting last week, President Mbeki said we should “act together as a people to confront this terrible scourge of crime”. The Ministry of Arts and Culture said in a statement that “crime is a South African problem and every one of us in this country must play our role in fighting it”.
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Posted by Tony on Sep 30, 2007 in
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I bet you are wondering if our country’s First Citizen has ventured into the world of Web 2.0 during his late-night browsings. Well, I can confirm that he has. After tracking him down on Facebook, I asked him if he would be my friend. Wouldn’t you just know it, but he agreed. So I grabbed a shot of his page, and left … a bit of a hit-and-run exercise, but I thought you might want a peek at it. (click on image for full version)
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Posted by Tony on Aug 31, 2007 in
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see in this week’s Mail & Guardian that the paper decided to take my post from Thought Leader and expand on it a bit, with some help of two of their journos (check out page four of the paper).
While all that was going on, I was sent another screen grab from the president’s inbox at the Union Buildings. Here it is (click on the image to see it full size):
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Posted by Tony on Aug 27, 2007 in
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A confidential source working in the IT department in Parliament sent me this screengrab from President Thabo Mbeki’s inbox. Thought you might like to see it [click picture below to enlarge].
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