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Friday, May 23, 2008
Image sent to me by Prof Malcolm Payne
posted by Robert Sloon at 12:33 PM
Image sent to me by Prof Malcolm Payne
Friday, May 23, 2008
Image sent to me by Prof Malcolm Payne
posted by Robert Sloon at 12:33 PM
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Dude. This is fucking lame. But, like, really though.
Malcolm really sent this to you? Was he perhaps trying to make some sort ironic of joke?
Anti-xenophobia march outside parliament today. Starting at five.
Please do come.
Jesus. Art students. Who needs 'em.
A resoundingly hideous picture, to be sure, but not nearly as ugly as the one he copied from, by Zapiro in the Mail&Guardian. Ah the artworld, small enclave of respite from other peoples' taste.
On the subject of the violence, here's quote from my favourite columnist, Lev David:
'You see we all know that the recent chaos in Gauteng isn't about xenophobia. Newspapers latch on to that word and won't let it go; how often do they get to put a word starting with an "X" on their posters?
For politicians it's whole lot easier to talk about xenophobia than it is to fix the great unmentionable: povery.
We keep expecting the hungry to be reasonble. But hungry people are crazy.'
Well it looks like it all started with Zulu migrant workers in tribally-demarcated hostels where the indunas who ran the place wouldn't allow them to apply for RDP housing, and the hostels never got maintained cos they fell under no particular department, and although millions of rands have apparently been allocated to upgrading them the money has always somehow never seemed to quite make it as far as actually doing the job.
So, being fleeced by various parties these folk feel into being the unhoused underdogs of the entire place, with big chips in their self-esteem, and then came to the brilliant conclusion that this was all the fault of foreigners.
The government of course had to come up with the theory that this was racist 'third force' activity aimed at undermining our happy utopia.
gee thanks for that insightful summary of what we have all been reading in the daily press, anonymous of 12.04.
oh fuck off, really , you self-important wanker
Refugees in need. 122 Longmarket Street, Westminster House. Please take food, clothes, blankets, toiletries. Or volunteer... number to call: 074.103.4664.
stop playing with your anal beads and do something.
thanks.
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