THOUGH the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet has "unconditionally" accepted the Constitutional Court ruling that struck down the legislation used by the Machine Gun Man to unsuccessfully extend Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo's term of office, it has vehemently attacked those who challenged the president's decision in the highest court in the land.
The Constitutional Court application was brought by the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, Freedom Under Law, Justice Alliance of South Africa and Centre for Applied Legal Studies.
"We are . perplexed and totally astonished by those who brought this matter before the Constitutional Court, totally disregarding similar extensions of terms of previous chief justices," the Toothy One lashed out.
The Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's spin doctor noted that no one had launched similar challenges when the Judges' Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act was passed in 2001 - coincidentally during the Tobacco Pipe Smoking Intellectual's reign - and used in respect of chief justices Arthur Chaskalson and Pius Langa.
"There has been no problem with the law in the previous extensions until it was used by President (Jacob) Zuma," the Toothy One said, again portraying the Machine Gun Man as a constant target of hatred.
We hear you loud and clear, Toothy One, and Guluva believes you have a point. But shouldn't you also accept the fact that three wrongs don't make a right?
Missing pieces
The New Age, the government-supporting rag funded by the politically connected Gupta family, last week joined other newspapers in prominently reporting on the raid by the Hawks on the offices of Imperial Crown Trading and the Department of Mineral Resources in connection with allegations of fraud, forgery, uttering and corruption.
To put the story in proper perspective the other newspapers mentioned that one of ICT's owners was Jagdish Parekh, a family friend of the Guptas and business partner of Duduzane Zuma, one of President Jacob Zuma's sons.
Last year ArcelorMittal offered to buy ICT, a newcomer to the mining industry, for R800 million in a BEE deal that would also benefit one of the Machine Gun Man's allies, Sandile "Money for Jam" Zungu, through his Ayigobi Consortium. Members of the Gupta family were also reported to have earned themselves a 6,25 percent stake in the ICT deal.
All these bits and pieces of information were conspicuous by their absence in The New Age front page report.
No prizes for guessing why.
Faces of government
SPEAKING about newspapers, the Free State provincial government has taken the lead in communicating positive government news through its Operation Hlasela News, a free rag published quarterly.
Guluva was one of the few who laid hands on the latest edition, which had a total of six photographs of Premier Ace Magashule, a feat that mainstream newspapers have never been able to match and probably never will.
Jimmy Manyi, the government spin-doctor-in-chief, who is appalled at the allegedly deliberate ploy by the mainstream media to ignore positive government stories, must be very pleased with Wisani wa ka Ngobeni, the rag's editor-in-chief, for the way he managed to give government a face.
E-mail Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com
Why do they loathe JZ so much?
THOUGH the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet has "unconditionally" accepted the Constitutional Court ruling that struck down the legislation used by the Machine Gun Man to unsuccessfully extend Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo's term of office, it has vehemently attacked those who challenged the president's decision in the highest court in the land.
The Constitutional Court application was brought by the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, Freedom Under Law, Justice Alliance of South Africa and Centre for Applied Legal Studies.
"We are . perplexed and totally astonished by those who brought this matter before the Constitutional Court, totally disregarding similar extensions of terms of previous chief justices," the Toothy One lashed out.
The Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's spin doctor noted that no one had launched similar challenges when the Judges' Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act was passed in 2001 - coincidentally during the Tobacco Pipe Smoking Intellectual's reign - and used in respect of chief justices Arthur Chaskalson and Pius Langa.
"There has been no problem with the law in the previous extensions until it was used by President (Jacob) Zuma," the Toothy One said, again portraying the Machine Gun Man as a constant target of hatred.
We hear you loud and clear, Toothy One, and Guluva believes you have a point. But shouldn't you also accept the fact that three wrongs don't make a right?
Missing pieces
The New Age, the government-supporting rag funded by the politically connected Gupta family, last week joined other newspapers in prominently reporting on the raid by the Hawks on the offices of Imperial Crown Trading and the Department of Mineral Resources in connection with allegations of fraud, forgery, uttering and corruption.
To put the story in proper perspective the other newspapers mentioned that one of ICT's owners was Jagdish Parekh, a family friend of the Guptas and business partner of Duduzane Zuma, one of President Jacob Zuma's sons.
Last year ArcelorMittal offered to buy ICT, a newcomer to the mining industry, for R800 million in a BEE deal that would also benefit one of the Machine Gun Man's allies, Sandile "Money for Jam" Zungu, through his Ayigobi Consortium. Members of the Gupta family were also reported to have earned themselves a 6,25 percent stake in the ICT deal.
All these bits and pieces of information were conspicuous by their absence in The New Age front page report.
No prizes for guessing why.
Faces of government
SPEAKING about newspapers, the Free State provincial government has taken the lead in communicating positive government news through its Operation Hlasela News, a free rag published quarterly.
Guluva was one of the few who laid hands on the latest edition, which had a total of six photographs of Premier Ace Magashule, a feat that mainstream newspapers have never been able to match and probably never will.
Jimmy Manyi, the government spin-doctor-in-chief, who is appalled at the allegedly deliberate ploy by the mainstream media to ignore positive government stories, must be very pleased with Wisani wa ka Ngobeni, the rag's editor-in-chief, for the way he managed to give government a face.
E-mail Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com
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