Dear Cde Sindiso Magaqa (ANCYL Secretary General) Congratulations on your election to lead our generation of youth to Economic Freedom in our Lifetime. Your unanimous election demonstrates the confidence we have in you. I doubt we have been properly introduced before, in the interest of courtesy, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Bayanda Mzoneli. I am a member of the ANCYL. I work at the Department of Public Enterprises. I am responsible for Parliamentary and Constituency Unit in the . . . Continue reading this article

I read with interest, the speech by Cde Blade Nzimande, the SACP General Secretary, to the Central Committee of COSATU. As always, I was interested in how the vanguard of the working class will inspire hope among millions of unemployed youth and casualised workers. I had also read the text of the Political Report to the 2nd Special National Congress of the SACP held in December 2009 for the same reasons a few years ago.I do not have paid membership of the SACP and my Young Communist League of South . . . Continue reading this article

In  a SASO BPC trial in May 1976, Steve Biko was asked, among others, about the meaning of the phrase "black is beautiful." His reply was, "I think the slogan has been meant to serve and I think is serving a very important aspect of out attempt to get at humanity. You are challenging the very deep roots of the Black man's belief about himself. When you say 'black is beautiful' what in fact you are saying to him is: man, you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being; now . . . Continue reading this article

Anatole France, a French writer, once wrote, "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." Contained in this quote is the explicit hypocrisy of equality in a capitalist democracy. Among the most taxed categories of persons in South Africa are motorists. Their taxes are applied equally regardless of the income differences, which obviously squeezes the poorer more. Obviously economists will tell you that . . . Continue reading this article

For the purposes of this text, we will pretend that a revolution is the change of government that is removed, by any means, on the basis of it being unjust (noting that justice is not universal). We will further pretend that a coup is an opportunist, and unjust, removal of a legitimate government by a faction of society and/or military for its own narrow ends.All the country information that appears after each country heading have been copied from Wikipedia as is. I, therefore, take no responsibility . . . Continue reading this article

1. Prologue Being a society where not even a single jot of oppression, discrimination and exploitation exists, the communist society embodies non-racialism, non-sexism, democracy and unparalleled none-exploitative economic progress if not perpetuity. Perpetuity that needs to be consolidated and defended, consolidated by the very class, the working class that must- itself- ultimately cease to exist in lieu of a classless society envisioned in the life and times of one of our outstanding revolutionaries . . . Continue reading this article

More than a year ago, I wrote about the Fallacy of Facebook addiction. My view remains unchanged, it is not possible to be addicted to Facebook. I like to know what the 54 members of my extended family are up to and 63% of them are on Facebook. Instead of calling or sending sms to each of them, I just go to their profiles and check. It's not Facebook I am addicted to, but my family. If you think Family addiction is a problem, try eating rice, cucumber, avocado and salmon rolled with nori from an . . . Continue reading this article

Last week, WikiLeaks released thousands of secret government documents, mostly of the US government. For the uninitiated, WikiLeaks is a news website that was started by Julian Assange. They hack into computer systems to retrieve secret documents and publish them on their website. It seems the aim to encourage openness and more accountability by governments. As expected, media institutions are fond of such an initiative as it provides a source of material they could use for reporting.I checked the . . . Continue reading this article

Earlier last week, I bought an iPad from unofficial distributors since the Core Group (official Apple Distributors in South Africa) do not know the date of availability of iPad in SA. I hope I will find time soon to share my experience of it on this blog. For today I am going to blog from it as part of enriching the experience.The issue today is first impressions. About 2 weeks ago I started at my new job, not that it's really new but I'll be working with with different people. As I continue to meet . . . Continue reading this article

This morning I tweeted about the meeting Deputy Minister Gigaba held with ISPA and WASPA. My tweets prompted a discussion with a fellow tweeter. As it got intense we took the discussion to Gmail chat for ease of use. Below is the full edited conversation.---3:09 PM Bayanda: Before we were interrupted [on Twitter], you were saying...? ongopotse: lol3:10 PM 1. We need to protect the children...and child porn is to be eliminated at every point The people who abuse kids, by taking pics of them,  in . . . Continue reading this article