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document.write("<h5>comment on The Point article</h5>");
document.write("Not blunt at all, ##### the #####s harder - jonos. jonos ");
document.write("<h5>look forward</h5>");
document.write("The ANC thugs think they can get away with this but they are living in the past. Have they heard of the information revolution that means that every person with the tv or a cellphone or an internet connection (most people have at least one of these, even in low LSMs) is witnessing their descent into madness? Do they think that if they punch the public in the face the public will keep being their friend forever? They are stuck in the past: the time for big chiefs with big sticks ruling the land with their bunch of cronies is part of the history of the world but not the future. South Africa is too big and too rich and too modern to be held hostage by a bunch of backward looking spin-doctors. The people are not stupid and the people will ultimately govern.. the dude");
document.write("<h5>idiot of the week</h5>");
document.write("Voters denied right to vote. Jessie  duarte you have denied me as an expat to vote so do not contradict yourself you silly person.. Aubrey");
document.write("<h5>My nominee for the Idiot of the week</h5>");
document.write("My nominee for the Idiot of the week (and for the year) is South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for her never ending shameless aiding and abetting of that tyrannical genocidal rogue Robert Mugabe.<br />Not only does she seem to have the charisma of a porcupine, she also appears  to have missed been endowed with brain cells that are intelligent,  logically and morally enabled.  (A typical solidarity ANC cadre perhaps?)<br />. Mberembere (Harare)");
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