An independent inquiry into the circumstances around Ashwin Willemse’s on-air walkout last month has cleared Nick Mallett and Naas Botha of racism and they will resume work in due course.
But Willemse declined to participate in the probe led by senior counsel Vincent Maleka, saying it wasn’t the correct forum to address the issue.
According to a letter sent to Maleka by his lawyers, Willemse was adamant that “racism was the cause of the incident and the narrative perpetuated by SuperSport that there was no racism reinforces his view and infringed his human rights and dignity”.
“They specifically reserve Willemse’s right to redress that infringement in an appropriate forum,” Maleka said in the report.
South Africa is woefully under-prepared for cyber attacks, with “completely ineffective” laws governing how personal information is protected.
The theft of thousands of Liberty investors’ financial details, and warnings posted by hackers behind last week’s Liberty Holdings hack, point to the dire situation, say cybercrime investigators.
On Monday an anonymous post was made to the website Pastbin by those claiming to be behind the hack.
The post, titled Liberty Holding Breach – Stage 1, revealed that 40 terabytes of data had allegedly been stolen in the hack.
The opening weekend of the Fifa World Cup produced no end of surprises, if Eskom load shedding allowed you to view the spectacle.
The country of my second allegiance, Argentina (given Bafana’s dismal non-qualification, my home team as it were), was held to an improbable draw by tiny Iceland, which in population terms (337,000 versus 43.85 million) is around 100 times smaller than the South American football-rich country. And Iceland’s coach has a day job as a dentist. So a country with Randburg’s population holds off the land of Messi and Maradona!
This week, when Julius Malema declared that the majority of South African Indians are racist, many people were terribly hurt and shocked. These people had clearly been locked in a cellar since about 2007 and didn't know how Malema operates, and it must have been very upsetting to finally be released from their dark hole only to see such words coming out of the mouth of somebody who sits in an actual parliament, almost as if he believes in democracy.
The rest of us, of course, have been watching Malema play his game since the beginning, slowly perfecting his shtick of Saturnine Revolutionary, aka Strong Daddy Who Will Lash Out But It's Only Because He Loves You So Much.
Former activists were quick to condemn Malema’s sweeping generalisation, pointing out that many Indians played a crucial role in the struggle. Others suggested that struggle credentials shouldn’t matter and that the condemnation of an entire racial group as being intrinsically wicked was in itself a racist statement.
