21st September 2009

Reading Mosibudu Mangena’s article on the former president Thabo Mbeki confirm my suspision that most members of the forth estate just thumb suck when it come to analyzing the performance or non-performance of the TM.  Before you press the delete button do yourself a favor and read this third opinion on our former president;  when the media makes grossly unfair statement such as DICTACTORIAL Mbeki and list “sources within the ruling party” to validate their argument you should take that with the pinch of salt because time and time again when people who have worked with this eminent son of the soil the picture they give us of him is totally different from the normal unsubstantiated diatribe we are fed by the media day in day out. 

Now let me tell you something that will help you to understand what prompted this blogger to share his thoughts; The public discourse or debate of our beloved country is being monopolized by few white conglomerates who have a sudden amnesia when it comes to the black suffering and all of these conglomerates have no interest in forging true reconciliation that doesn’t exclude transformation, so we as African need to use every space available to dispense our perspective and not to fold our arms and allow our former oppressors to pretend to be our knights when it com to information

21st September 2009