Muammar Gaddafi often comes across as a nutjob, travelling around with his amazon bodyguard and having himself crowned “king of kings”. And his long, rambling, intemperate speech at the UN Security Council yesterday certainly contained its fair share of crazy. However, I’ve suggested before that Gaddafi has more tactical acumen than the media gives him [...]

Khaya Dlanga touches on something that has annoyed me about the Brandon Huntley controversy: the extent to which South Africans have engaged in gratuitous Canada-bashing:
A lot of people seem to have missed the point. It was not the Canadian government that gave the famed and now much vilified Huntley refugee status. It was not a [...]

The South African blogosphere has been overwhelmingly critical of Brandon Huntley and the Canadian immigration board that granted him refugee status. (See Pierre De Vos, Ray Hartley, Michael Trapido, and Sarah Britten, to name just a few.) However, I think that in the rush to bash Huntley for the sin of bringing the country into [...]