News commentary - AWB Re-Launch

I got interested in the South African Afrikaner political party the AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging), after watching Louis Theroux, a British investigative journalist. He was doing a story on racism in South Africa, which no doubt led him to Eugène Terre'Blanche. This is a link to videos of his programme on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=louis+theroux+south+africa&search_type=&aq=f
I recently came across an article about the re-launch of the AWB by Terre’Blanche himself. However, the article was further spiced up as the writer compared both Terre’Blanche and Julius Malema, as they had been throwing insults at eachother. I laughed when the writer said that they “have fired volleys at each other in what is sure to be one of the most entertaining battles ever fought in the South African political arena.” I smile at the thought of two strong minded gusto leaders defending what they view as right. Never mind that Malema has been seriously slammed in the media for being untactful and stupid. If you go back and look at past stories about the actual re-launch of the AWB you can watch a video of Terre’Blanche’s speech. I always wonder what goes through his mind, the scary thought that his ideologies are so deeply entrenched him. I urge everyone to watch the Louis Theroux documentary and while you at it all his other stories, which are equally as interesting.

all you need to know

“Journalism is organized gossip.”
Edward Eggleston

Gossip is a powerful tool in journalism. But more so, information that people don’t know is a powerful tool. It is human nature to want to know what others know. So, if you think about it logically, being a journalist therefore gives you alot of power, it makes you an important person. I want to be an important person. I want to have power. I can tell you now that I’m not going to get that through Bob Mugabe death tactics. So thats why i’m a Rhodes first year journalism student. My name is Andrew Brukman. I’m from Cape Town but went to school in Grahamstown.Our blog is about sharing experiences through writing – or blogging to be more specific. People experience different events and places in different ways because so many different factors, race, sex or ways of viewing life. So why not blog about these different perspectives of events. We are gong to be challenging eachother to do things which we wouldn’t normally do. Something out of our comfort zone. We believe that by doing this it opens up your perspective of life and makes you consciously think of what you are experiencing. Something which is different gives you the ability to compare what is normal to you. How are we going to do this? We have in our group two black girls and two white guys. What better way than to have a set of people so opposite in order to experience different events or places. The great thing about this is that these challenged will no doubt spark debates and issues will be raised which we will be able to write about. This is going to be fun

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
Edward Steichen