Mhambi

It's been a great two and a bit years since I started this blog.Because of the Blogger platform limitations I decided a while ago to switch to a self hosted version of the open source Wordpress platform. But the longer I wait the harder this will be to do...

Mhambi is really depressed. If you have been following this blog it's a no brainer to figure out why...

Mandela yesterday, to his credit, referred to Darfur and South Africa, besides Zimbabwe as crisis hot spots. It so happens that the African Union will have a summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh from Monday.In reality there's allot more going down at present...

It's time to take a stand. Kader Asmal has drawn up a Deceleration in defense of our Constitution. This significant moment in our history requires that all of us become activists in the service of our Constitution.Each of us must act as a steward, if not as an owner...

"We watch with sadness the continuing tragedy in Darfur. Nearer to home we have seen the outbreak of violence against fellow Africans in our own country and the tragic failure of leadership in our neighbouring Zimbabwe."Nelson Mandela condemned Robert Mugabe at a dinner in London last night...

Much is currently being made in the British Press of Nelson Mandela's visit to the UK for the concert celebration of his 90th birthday.Not because of the planned star studded line up mind you. But because Mandela has not condemned Robert Mugabe's government of late...

Mhambi read two interesting articles this week, both relating to the Chinese and blackness. The first is a Chinese reporters account on a blog of 'Chocolate City'...

This week Mhambi's favorite radio station BBC Radio 4 has flighted two good documentaries about reconciliation in South Africa. The one, is positive and represents all we could hope to have achieved. It tells the story of musician Roger Lucey and security branch policeman Paul Erasmus...

"But where's the hope going to come from?"...Hardly two weeks have gone by since FW de Klerk in an BBC radio interview declared to a concerned Evan Davis that South Africa's legal institutions are sound, and that these legal institutions would be the ballast, the anchor of our ship South Africa, to...

The other day jewish South Africans on It's Almost Supernatural were in a tizz about a letter...

...and that is the problem.This week Ivor Chipkin, Wits Professor and author of Do South Africans Exist...

The BBC's Today program interviewed FW De Klerk (Audio) about recent events in South Africa this morning. a book and a word3 Originally uploaded by madamofo.He is asked, "where will the hope for political change come from?"De Klerk is "not loosing sleep"...

Wealthy people have a greater potential to suffer than the poor. A True Smile Originally uploaded by ~FreeBirD®~.Think that statement is controversial?...

Here's a video of the march against Xenophobia in Hillbrow Johannesburg. In it you can see how happy these immigrants were to see South Africans take a stand.You have to feel for these people, many who come from the most desperate countries imaginable...