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By Mwangi G
How the ANC youth league reminds me of YK' 92
I have always found it interesting to find parallels in history or event current events in one part of the world and another. In recent months here in South Africa the political talk has revolved around the expulsion from the ruling ANC of the president of the Youth League, one Julius Malema.The historical parallel that this business reminds me of is Kenya in 1992 when with the return of multi-party politics an organisation calling itself Yout...
Could string of bombings be a screen for assassination plot?
No matter how much I try to avoid it, I must openly admit to being a bit of a conspiracy theorist especially when it comes to politics and the issues that swirl around it. The problem with conspiracy theories is once you get hooked, then there really is no stopping and depending on your sense of imagination and creativity, you can go as far as to sound quite insane to ‘non-believers’.I can’t claim to speak for anyone else, b...
Why are Zuma’s six wives such a big deal?
So President Jacob Zuma of South Africa is marking the first week of his sixth ever marriage. Comedians, cartoonists, political analysts, fellow journalists and others have had a field day with the president’s marital status and somehow manage to make it sound as though it’s such a big deal. Frankly I don’t see the problem especially as all his wives seem quite happy with the arrangement and there is no law against it in Sout...
The Zuma birthday fuss: Was someone trying to suck up?
I think the saying is, “If you remember the '60s, you weren't there.” I was there for the very end of them, but even my fabled memory does not go back that far. However, I do recall the 1980s. I remember waking up in the morning and switching the radio on to the Voice of Kenya’s Breakfast Club show. For those of you who have no idea what the VoK was, I must add here that it was the predecessor to KBC and that in those da...
If you are reading this now Friday 13th can't have been working
If you are alive and well and reading this article in the Weekend Star on Saturday April 14 or Sunday April 15, then you will agree with me that there was probably no reason to worry that Friday was the 13th.Of course if you are one of those superstitious people and anything out of the ordinary happened to you on Friday, then you are probably sitting there certain that it was the curse of Friday 13 that caused whatever it is that happened to y...
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