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fighting politics online

There is no doubt about it – generation X and Y is firmly rooted online, especially with the advent of mobile phones with internet browsing capabilities. The battle of politics has always been to get the right information to the right people, right on time.

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zuma judgment – some more commentary

Up to this stage, br!ghtshark has been quiet on the Zuma front. This doesn’t mean he hasn’t been following it closely though…
Over time there have been a lot of noise in the “Zuma-case” commentary, from some arrogant uneducated peeps, to some other inciting cartoonists who caused quite an uproar, to “the-guy-sitting-next-to-me-on-the-plane-on-Friday”.
The history to the case [...]

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nota bene dogs of war and humanitarians alike

The act under discussion this week might not seem very relevant to the daily goings-about of most of our readers (or at least we hope so), but it nevertheless makes for interesting reading.
 
The rather inelegantly named Prohibition of Mercenary Activities and Regulation of Certain Activities in Country (sic) of [...]

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e-filing paving the way for batho pele

The hated filing season is practically behind us. Save for the e-filers amongst us: SARS has recently announced that taxpayers that will be using the e-filing service will have until 31 January 2008 to submit their returns for the tax year ending in February 2007.
The technology behind the service is quite innovative if one takes [...]

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and we wonder why our broadband situation is such a mess

I read a very interesting article in the Sunday Times this morning – it’s an interview with SA’s Director General of Communications, Lyndall Shope-Mafole.
From the article it seems obvious that the DG is more interested in rhetoric than actually tackling SA’s bandwidth situation.
The full interview can (and should be!) be read at:
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/PrintEdition/BusinessTimes/Article.aspx?id=565001.

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