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Mhambi is a Zulu word meaning traveller. Mhambi is about identity, emigration, technology, desire and politics. All seen from the perspective of the south and developing world and South Africa in particular.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Mhambi has now moved

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To Mhambi.com There is no need to chnage your feed subscription, I shifted it to the new blog.
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Mhambi.blogspot to move to Mhambi.com

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It's been a great two and a bit years since I started this blog. Because of the Blogger platform limitations I decided a while ago to s...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

South Africa is going down

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Mhambi is really depressed. If you have been following this blog it's a no brainer to figure out why. South Africa is going down. When t...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

All of us must become activists in the service of our Constitution

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It's time to take a stand. Kader Asmal has drawn up a Deceleration in defense of our Constitution . This significant moment in our histo...
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African Union has its hands full

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Mandela yesterday, to his credit, referred to Darfur and South Africa, besides Zimbabwe as crisis hot spots. It so happens that the African...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Mandela - a tragic failure of leadership in Zimbabwe

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"We watch with sadness the continuing tragedy in Darfur. Nearer to home we have seen the outbreak of violence against fellow Africans i...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Is Nelson Mandela's silence on Zimbabwe OK?

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Much is currently being made in the British Press of Nelson Mandela's visit to the UK for the concert celebration of his 90th birthday. ...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

BBC looks at SA reconciliation success and failure

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This week Mhambi's favorite radio station BBC Radio 4 has flighted two good documentaries about reconciliation in South Africa. The one,...

The bitterswet taste of Chinese chocolates

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Mhambi read two interesting articles this week, both relating to the Chinese and blackness. The first is a Chinese reporters account on a bl...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Hlophe - the slope just got slippier

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"But where's the hope going to come from?"... Hardly two weeks have gone by since FW de Klerk in an BBC radio interview decla...
Monday, June 09, 2008

No Afrikaans - Would it be a loss to the planet?

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The other day jewish South Africans on It's Almost Supernatural were in a tizz about a letter. "The letter entitled “We fought apa...
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Friday, June 06, 2008

Mbeki's ANC is Africanist not Nationalist

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...and that is the problem. Nationalism - A double edged sword? This week Ivor Chipkin, Wits Professor and author of Do South Africans Exis...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

What happiness science can teach SA on xenophobia

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Wealthy people have a greater potential to suffer than the poor. A True Smile Originally uploaded by ~FreeBirD®~ . Think that statement is c...
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De Klerk BBC Radio Interview

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The BBC's Today program interviewed FW De Klerk (Audio) about recent events in South Africa this morning. a book and a word3 Original...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Beware stumbling blocks

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The people shall govern - a man confronts Zuma in Bakerton "If you are a stumbling block, we are going to kick you away" Mhambi is...

Anti-xenephobia march video

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Here's a video of the march against Xenophobia in Hillbrow Johannesburg. In it you can see how happy these immigrants were to see South ...

Yeoville still a haven for immigrants

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A while ago I wrote about my meeting with Kleinboer , the award winning Afrikaans author that lives and has lived in exotic Yeoville, Johann...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Kenya's The Nation on South Africa

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One of the most interesting and correct assesments of the xenophobic troubles in South Africa comes from Kenya's Daily Nation . "T...
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