Comments on: From the People’s Paper to the Presidency’s Paper http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/11/04/from-the-peoples-paper-to-the-presidencys-paper/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:34:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: FIX THE FXI http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/11/04/from-the-peoples-paper-to-the-presidencys-paper/#comment-74222 FIX THE FXI Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:36:00 +0000 http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/?p=233#comment-74222 The real issue is The ANC's determination to control all aspects of society. Few commentators in the post apartheid era have had the guts to point this out. Perhaps they have been too politically correct or too reluctant to anger their new paymasters. When the post apartheid history of South Africa is written, historians may wonder why "the intelligentsia" (and I include Prof Harber) was so reluctant to stand-up for hard won democratic freedoms. And by the way Marc, you should continue to "freak out everytime some dabblers-in-power run something quite outrageous up the pole." If you dont, those at the top of the greasy pole will piss down on you with abandon! The real issue is The ANC’s determination to control all aspects of society. Few commentators in the post apartheid era have had the guts to point this out. Perhaps they have been too politically correct or too reluctant to anger their new
paymasters.

When the post apartheid history of South Africa is written, historians may wonder why “the intelligentsia” (and I include Prof Harber) was so reluctant to stand-up for hard won democratic freedoms.

And by the way Marc, you should continue to “freak out everytime some dabblers-in-power run something quite outrageous up the pole.” If you dont, those at the top of the greasy pole will piss down on you with abandon!

]]> By: Marc Pienaar http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/11/04/from-the-peoples-paper-to-the-presidencys-paper/#comment-74208 Marc Pienaar Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:05:35 +0000 http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/?p=233#comment-74208 ...but it's now looking as if sanity has prevailed at the PIC after all. Denials all round. I should learn not to freak out everytime some dabblers-in-power run something quite outrageous up the pole . …but it’s now looking as if sanity has prevailed at the PIC after all. Denials all round. I should learn not to freak out everytime some dabblers-in-power run something quite outrageous up the pole .

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