The ANC’s election strategy: Blackmail
Instead of presenting a case for why one should vote for the ANC in the upcoming local government elections, some spokespersons for the ANC seem more intent on using emotional blackmail to make voters think that they have no options other than voting for the ruling party. After all, who wants to risk killing Mandela or going to hell?
Mandela’s autopsy
Freedom of expression has clear bounds, and they are bounds that the ANC agreed to when accepting the Constitution. You can call Damaso insensitive and rude for portraying a dead Mandela if you like, but he is as entitled to exercise his version of culture as you are yours.
Mandela’s Robben Island getaway (and other weirdness)
I thought Invictus was a crap movie on the basis of being a mawkish, poorly scripted, glacially-paced and poorly acted account of a largely imagined period of South African history, the African Christian Action (ACA) reviewer didn’t like it because Mandela was a “terrorist” who didn’t really even have such a hard life while imprisoned.
Eastwood does Oprah
Invictus: in what appears to be a concerted effort to win a couple of Oscars, Eastwood lays on the cheese to such an extent that at one point the Doctor remarked “this is more than cheesy – it’s an entire fondue!”.
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