Standing in the way of control!

Turns out Jon Qwelane and the Press Ombudsman of South Africa, Joe Thloloe has a history. In fact it seems as though the two are comrades.

This claim is not made by the gay pressure group, who formally laid charges against Qwelane for his now infamous column, expressing his disdain for gay people but according to Qwelane himself in a column he wrote in 2005:

I remember one Sunday afternoon in Rockville, Soweto, when my close friend and colleague Joe Thloloe and I were leaving what had been a rather heated political rally in Regina Mundi Catholic Church.

The group now plans to appeal the finding made by Thloloe.

More here at the Facebook page of “Appalling Homophobia in our midst!!”

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The xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in SA did not come as a surprise but rather as  a shock of its extent as perpetrated by those involved. I crawled a lot of blogs and noticed that though the press, and columnists working for them, are avidly blogging about it, only a few private bloggers have expressed opinions on the situation! Here on bundublog.com I could only find one blog posted about the topic by African Trade hub.

The question I ask myself is why aren’t more South Africans speaking out or in the least expressing their private thoughts and or opinions about this situation? I experienced the same situation with the Skielik-murders. The press was having a field day, reporting and blogging,however, private individuals remained mostly silent. Surely public discourse is called for by he citizens of the country instead of the press just towing the politically correct line. Is that not what citizen journalism is about?

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Ok, now that it seems as though this blog is working I’ll take some time out to put my cv outhere.

I am a man in my early thirties. I studied law in South Africa and worked for 8 years in this field. Now, well, now I am tired of it and I have eventually decided to move on…The justice system is just not cutting it anymore. I believe that maybe another field would open my eyes to the love  I once had for the law though that is but a hope. Must say to take such a drastic step is scary but I belive I will find my way out of a world that I perceive to be dark and disjointed….

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