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It was a sad day in South Africa yesterday as black Tuesday saw the passing of the access to information bill.

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You may have read Joe Social’s post about the unfortunate vervet monkey that was burned for being a witch?

Well it seems that not too many days can pass in South Africa without some cruel dimwit making up for his own cowardice by taking it out on an animal.

As evidenced in Benoni, where a man decided that his neighbours Rottweiler should actually have a short tail and so went next door and cut it off, before throwing it away and returning to his braai to boast about his idiocy.

There’s a saying that you can tell a lot about a countries citizens by they way they treat their animals. If this is true, then perhaps we need to start considering putting some of our citizens down!

Read more about it here.

We all know that the long arm of the law works long hours. We understand the pressures of the job. And we sympathise when we read about our law enforcement personnel being killed or injured in the line of duty, but we can’t really let this lie (excuse the pun).

Two of our boys in blue were snapped this week catching a little shuteye – on duty – in Pretoria. According to Eyewitness News even the bright flash of the camera and banging on the window wouldn’t wake these sleeping beauties.

Let’s hope they weren’t suffering from the dreaded sleep dribble. Now that would have been embarrassing!

SAPS sleep clinics a great success

So you probably read about the Knights Of The Missing Round Table and how their second home is at Doodles here and as I said in my previous article, these guys print a t-shirt every year that is relevant to current happenings.

With the Japan Tsunami fresh in everyone’s minds the K.O.T.M.R.T decided to make their new shirt look something like this.

Knights Of The missing Round Table II

This might seem like a big joke and I suppose it is a little bit, but this is why they are on Tsunami watch…

Doodles Beachfront View

If a Tsunami happens to hit, at least we know the Knights of the Missing Round Table has our backs…

Pretoria – The mighty ANC was on Saturday given a psychological blow when the final election results confirmed that it had lost its two-thirds majority.

Jacob Zuma’s party received 65.9% of the vote -the ANC’s weakest performance since the first democratic elections in 1994. That’s almost 4% less than in 2004.

The ANC’s Jeff Radebe said “We are very satisfied. It is a strong victory, we even got more than a million more votes than in 1994.”

He went on to say they are in ‘no way’ dissapointed. Seeing as this is the largest turn out since 1994 with many more voters casting their ballots than in the preceeding two elections, coupled with the fact than an increased population brings about an increased voter pool, a mere million more votes than 1994 doesn’t bode too well for the ruling party.

Analysts however, took a different view to the result than the ANC has taken publically. While this election victory may seem overwhelming, there are a few things that the opposition can be happy about.

As Professor Steven Friedman, a political analyst, says:

“This (the loss of the two-thirds majority) is a psychological victory for opposition parties and purely of symbolic value. The ANC will not admit it in public, but it shows they will have to work harder to retain voters.”

The ANC spent at least R200m on its campaign and more than 11 million people voted for them.

The DA got almost 17% support and Cope just over 7%.

The support the DA got this time around cannot be sneezed at, at close to 20% of the national vote, the opposition is growing and now it seems almost one in five of our demographic is voting for the official opposition.

Professor Sipho Seepe, another political commentator, said a DA government in the Western Cape was a threat to the ANC.

“The ANC will have to do better, because if the DA does well, voters will say ‘maybe we should give them (the DA) more provinces’.”

In case you were wondering if you have the right party in mind to vote for in tomorrows South African General Election 2009, this new tool from Mail and Guardian, the Poll Predictor should put your mind at ease. This is a wonderful idea and hopefully can go a long way towards getting those of us on the fence, off it.

I filled in the form and the party I will be voting for on both levels came out as my first choice.