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The IEC saga: an early warning to other national standards offenders

As a long time advocate for best practices in web design, W3C standards compliancy, and the open source movement, this quite simply blows my mind on so many different levels:

The Independent Electoral Commission will spend R3 million to fix its broken website as complaints mount.

Wow!
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The Bok has Sprung

The Protea is King.

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Political party websites revisited

Last week I blogged about the poor state of South Africa’s political party websites. I just skimmed the surface – the point I was making and which Ian pointed out in his comment, is that with a a month and a half until the municipal elections, none of the big parties – … view full post

 

State of South African political websites

With the 2006 Municipal Elections coming up soon (Election Day is March 1st), I found myself visiting a number of election-related and individual political party websites, firstly to find out if I still have time to register (oops, missed it by a day!), and then just out of interest.

South Africa has a … view full post

 

Oil and Armament

War drums still beat, instigation rises despite world’s certainty that Iraq is free from WMD, according to inspection committees. It is an inconsistency to the wise, a procedure to those who recklessly fiddle with the human reason as Bush the little and his group do as if they are USA. The way they behave improves that

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Shoot Saddam

The day banner ads turned political: Shoot Saddam. I’m not sure what bothers me more, the banner itself (not that I’m a Saddam supporter or anything) or the product they claim to be giving away for free: Spy Hear 007.

Do you want to hear what people are saying around you? Worried the Boss

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Peter Marais

Cape Town politician Peter Marais is back following a decision that sexual harassment charges against him stand little prospect of successful prosecution. Now he wants to return to politics “in an influential position” at either national or provincial level.

Source: IOL

The people have spoken. Will it matter … view full post