POLITICS - ZUMA QUITS FENCE
SOUTH African President, Jacob Zuma has had himself sandwiched between a rock and a hard place over the Julius Malema disciplinary issue. Or to dial a cliche "damned if you do and damned if you don't" was what his advisors would have told him. Until now...
The scenario has changed and Zuma's off the fence on this one.
He's grabbed the opportunity to neutralise a threat to his second term in the presidency by his rabble-rousing ANC Youth League leader.
Julius Malema and YL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu face an ANC disciplinary inquiry over Botswana regime change comments and for bringing the ANC into disrepute among several other charges come August 30 and 31.
To initiate such an action signifies a shrewd move by Zuma.
One is certain he remembers too well early 2010's Malema-hauling over the coals where taps on the wrist were given to the allegedly errant youth group leader thus giving him more ammunition to mobilise his support base.
Malema had gone on record April 2010 soon after the presidential censure, saying Zuma was akin to predecessor Thabo Mbeki.
Mbeki was ousted from the hot spot with YL support for the populist Zuma.
To save his seat at the party at the Manguang conference next year, and that of his co-leaders, Zuma appears intent on taking action.
This to thwart an angry youth league hellbent on leadership change 2012.
There's little to indicate public opinion inspired Zuma to rein Malema in.
If it had, then he surely would have fired police chief General Bheki Cele over the multi-billion rand land lease deal which the Pubic Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela deemed corrupt by now.
That fact that Malema's deputy Floyd Shivambu has been charged alongside Malema means that Zuma's NEC is looking forward to an ANCYL that is weakened and replaced by sympathisers of the old fogeys rather than hot-headed young lions like Malema and Shivambu.
There's a fight for pride and survival at stake.
**MEANWHILE the Hawks confirmed a fraud and corruption investigation against Juius Malema is underway, according to the City Press.
AfriForum initiated the case of corruption alleging a Malema trust fund was used to elicit deposits from business associates.
Said the Hawks' spokesperson McIntosh Polela, Saturday: "We are able to confirm that indeed we are doing a full investigation, but we are unable to give any details other than that.”
RADIO - MOTORMOUTH: MORGAN
RIDE and Drive with Morgan Naidu gives you all the motoring vroom vroom weekly on Kaya FM (95.9FM) in Gauteng (also on DStv audio 62) Fridays from 5pm to 5.30pm and twice a week on Gagasi 99.5 in KZN as well as on Heart 104.9 in Cape Town presented by a partner of Morgan, Andrew Leopold.
The groundbreaking shows are synched to the ride and drive website, Morgan's Sunday World "Ask Morgan" column, and his motoring slots on Ignition TV on DStv channel 265 on weekends.
There's user-friendly banter, reviews, and the lowdown on all the latest rides from this jet-setting journalist and entrepreneur.
See: http://rideanddrive.co.za
See: http://rideanddrive.co.za
TV - FOOD
SO Jenny Morris, the Giggling Gourmet, has been chosen as Food Network's ambassador in SA. She's got her own show on the colourful, popular channel (185) on DStv.
Former Durban girl Morris will sure make her mark with her creative dishes and wicked sense of humour while bringing local relevance to Food Network which, thanks to its niched programming, has zilch competition on the DStv platform. Cape Town-based Morris is also a published author.
** Also a show to look out for is the hugely successful Come Dine With Me competition on BBC Entertainment, DStv, channel 120. Dinner hosts in South Africa will be judged by three other dinner hosts, in their homes, each week, and scored by each other for the main prize. Sounds delectable. Pick n Pay sponsors with Knorr.
TV - COMEDY OUTSOURCED
NBC's Outsourced enjoyed 22 episodes as part of its firs season before being canned for it's alleged racist content. I watched all 22 episodes and can can warn you about this SABC3, 8.30pm, Monday night show: it's fun.
Set in an India call centre where an American dude Ben Rappaport as Todd is banished to work with an Indian subordinate Rajiv (Rizwan Manji) openly eager to see him fired and replaced by himself, this series curries favour with its audience. (Yes yes pun intended).
It's got stock characters like chubby, funny man Gupta (Parvesh Cheena) who dreams of Bollywood, the delectable damsel (Rebecca Hazlewood as Asha) waiting for her arranged marriage while pursued by the boss, the pipsqueak Madhuri (Anisha Nagarajan) who has to sell sex dolls and fart machines but who can hardly muster a word let alone three, the Americanised hunk (Sacha Dhawan) teased on his name Manmeet, the redneck (Diedrich Bader's Charlie), the Aussie beauty Tonya (Pippa Black) and possible love interest to the boss...
There are issues and cultural senstivities explored in each episode and it's great to see them out in the open - even if at times they border on the risque.
See: www.sabc3.co.za
WITCH WATCH ON FX
WITCH WATCH ON FX
NORTHERN Ghana is home to The Witches of Gambaga - women shunned by society in a modern day. The award-winning documentary can be seen on FX (part of FOX FIC) on TopTV, channel 110 tonight at 10pm and tomorrow at 7.45pm. Said director Yaba Badoe who took five years to make the film: "Nobody knows the number of alleged witches who never find sanctuary, but I wanted Ghanaians and other Africans, to hear what has happened to women who have lived to tell their tales.”
The stories are told through the gaze of these women; ostracised by a society that doesn't understand them.
Best Documentary winner at the Black International Film Festival and runner up at the 22nd Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso in 2011; The Witches of Gambaga was made by 2010.
British Film Institute critic, Geoff Andrew had this to say about the documentary: “An admirably unsensational but powerfully affecting reminder of the terrible influence still wrought by superstition on the lives of so many women.”
The documentary is part of the FX Only In Africa Season 2 on which has first screenings on Saturdays at 8.30pm on TopTV.
See: www.fxafrica.tv
See: www.fxafrica.tv
KIDS - BOO'S BACK
SO Boo of kidsco (TopTV 255 and DStv 308) fame will be back in South Africa this September.
The character version of the animated orangutan who advocates "re-use, reduce, recyle" etc. was born in Malaysia and with his human friends Yasmine and Aiman wants to clean up the world. One hopes the global leaders and environmental ministers attending COP17, the world's climate change conference, in Durban this December are switched on to Boo & Me 2 on kidsco. Boyband Blue in their Boo PSA (public service announcement) down below certainly are.
See: www.kidscotv.tv; www.toptv.co.za and www.dstv.com
PRINT - A POOR PERFORMER
PRINT - A POOR PERFORMER
NEWSPAPERS surveyed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) revealed a slump in readership for weekday reads between April and June 2011. In essence dailies recorded a dip in sales totaling 126 000 copies on average as compared to the same period 2010. In percentage terms this is an 8.4% decline. Overall eight papers remained static, 10 declined and one, isiZulu-language read Isolezwe, showed increased circulation.
One wonders if such records take into account unsold newspapers dumped. Thousands of Saturday newspapers were left stranded for days at a Gauteng exhibition this writer attended recently for instance.
One wonders if such records take into account unsold newspapers dumped. Thousands of Saturday newspapers were left stranded for days at a Gauteng exhibition this writer attended recently for instance.
So if the decline in sales in English and Afrikaans reads are accurately recorded - and if we add dumped newspapers to this decline - it seems there's more people NOT reading "purchased" newspapers than what we are actually being sold/told.
LAST WORDS
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