Fodder - A blog from the heart of zaLandFodder is a blog about what's on the front page of the world's and South Africa's newspapers from the perspective of zaBlogger. The slant will be South African but we cannot stick our head in the sand and ignore what's happening internationally so there will also be lots of international news.Vlok apologises- August 28, 2006 JOHANNESBURG (SABCNews) -- Adriaan Vlok, an apartheid era minister of police, has apologised to Frank Chikane, the director general in the Presidency, for all the atrocities committed by police under his command. Chikane says Vlok requested to see him because he regards him as a symbol of many other victims of the conflict in the past. During their meeting, Vlok...http://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/vlok_apologises.html Thatcher was wrong- August 28, 2006 LONDON (UPI) -- Tory leader David Cameron has denounced former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's branding of Nelson Mandela's National Congress as "terrorists." Cameron's remarks in London also suggested the Thatcher administration was wrong in opposing sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa, The Observer reported. Well yes everybody with half a brain accepts this now but the point...http://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/thatcher_was_wr.html Busted- August 23, 2006 The wire-tapping program here in litigation has indisputably been continued for at least five years ... obviously in violation of the Fourth Amendment ANNA DIGGS TAYLOR federal judge, ruling that the NSA no-warrant surveillance program violates the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.http://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/busted.html Bush is crap, says Prescott- August 17, 2006 London (UK INDEPENDENT) -- John Prescott has given vent to his private feelings about the Bush presidency, summing up George Bush's administration in a single word: crap. Not sure his boss, Blair, would agree but he certainly he's not beating around the bush.http://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/bush_is_crap_sa.html Free wi-fi- August 17, 2006 San Francisco (FIN24) -- Google on Wednesday said it plans to offer free, high-speed internet access to everyone in its Silicon Valley hometown - a hospitable gesture that the online search leader hopes to see spread to other parts of the country. The new wireless, or "Wi-Fi" network, is believed to establish Mountain View, California, as the largest US city...http://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/free_wifi.html Is Israel now safe- August 17, 2006 So now that Israel has destroyed Lebanon is Israel saferhttp://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/is_israel_now_s.html COSATU; prove it or shut up- August 14, 2006 Last month COSATU marched on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) demanding that charges against Zuma be dropped. The COSATU claim was the old conspiracy theory behind the removal of Zuma as potential future president of South Africa. But then last week Vusi Pikoli (head of the NPA) has fired back essentially calling COSATU's bluff. He replied; Therefore, if COSATU is...http://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/cosatu_prove_it.html Airline terror attacks thawted- August 14, 2006 Once again the capture by police of alleged airline bombers this time planning to blow up ten transatlantic planes simultaneously proves that the route to beating terror is not via invasion but via intelligence. Unfortunately we're going to be living with the deeply flawed invasion theory for a very long time as the Middle East continues to descend...http://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/airline_terror_.html Homophobic hogwash- August 2, 2006 Homophobic hogwash for all gay marriage bashers.http://www.fodder.co.za/2006/08/homophobic_hogw.html |