Comments on: Elephantiasis Durbanitis

By: lance

lance — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:09:57 +0000

a short video on the elephants here:

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By: South Africa: In Durban, its all about “Writing on the Wall” « Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:01:19 +0000

[...] Suddenly a massive squadron of Metro cops and private investigators swoop and bundle them into the backs of police vans, while they were busy choosing the best colours to blend against the cold grey sky. Another fine example of Durban’s war on public art. [...]

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By: hater

hater — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:25:34 +0000

afrikazi use your spellcheck and at the same time check yourself you amateur! with a mind like yours you should be in government ripping us ‘whiteys’ off and your OWN poor brothers in the townships you would fit well right in there, this isn’t your colony either its everyones get used to it you need us more than we need your lame ass hate speech!

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By: Zyah

Zyah — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:05:44 +0000

mqOEop I’m not esaliy impressed. . . but that’s impressing me!

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By: David K

David K — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:04:13 +0000

I recommend that the ANC should stop using PPC cement for any construction projects due to it being supportive of the IFP.
Otherwise PPC will have to alter their Elephant logo

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By: » Durban Elephants…..

» Durban Elephants….. — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:25:37 +0000

[...] http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/elephantiasis-durbanitis/ Elephantiasis Durbanitis Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 by Alex Sudheim, images by Kevin Goss-Ross [...]

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By: carlotta

carlotta — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:47:18 +0000

There are protests out there for service delivery and well – these are people who got off their asses and are trying to say – we’re frustrated – so maybe that’s a step in the right direction. I think the whole elephant sculpture banning incident reaches new heights of stupidity. The ANC is re-writing history to present themselves as the only people who fought for liberation as if there weren’t other agencies and other people beside them. Did the party liberate this country or the people? who’s forgetting what? Oh there were good white, coloured and indian people and then there were very bad black people who sold out – and so this makes the race debate – more complex? black and white – anc only – unfortunately our cadres think that you can run a country on your political pedigree above ability. I say shoot the incompetent bastards!

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By: eish

eish — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:56:10 +0000

i think our stadiums are, by and large, beautiful.

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By: Gardener

Gardener — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:42:50 +0000

While the debate rages above about politics and governmental interference a very real threat to Live elephants looms. The meeting in Dohar of CITES will have a proposal tabled by Tanzania nd Zambia to downlist Elephants from CITES Appendix 1 to CiTES Appendix II – and a request to sell their “ivory stockpiles”. This will be the death knell for the elephants in Southern Africa. If you can’t leave your desks – then a protest can still be made here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-more-trade-in-elephant-ivory

Zambia has 27,000 elephants and 11,500,000 million people you reckon that allowing the sale of ivory again won’t make some of those 11,500,000 decide to take out a couple of eles so they can feed their kids. When the last one is shot and their teeth hacked out what will you be doing?

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By: Niklas

Niklas — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:52:16 +0000

Why is there so much swearing as soon as there is dissent on an open forum such as Mahala? It tends to unnecessarily weaken the best argument, as the polite German “Kraftausdruck” exemplifies: “power expression.” We clearly don’t need more power, we need more sense of a communal future. If we can’t have public art unless a ruling party allows it, then this indicates a serious problem. Even more serious if we can’t effectively do anything about that – together. Join the FaceBook group “save the Durban elephants” if you don’t live there, and if you do, get over to the site and organise some awesome series of protests. If poverty, disenfranchisement and and agreeing to disagree can bring us closer together, let’s THANK our ‘leaders’ for cutting the naional arts council’s budget down to a sneeze. Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am laengsten – the one who laughs last, laughs the longest. Let’s hold our breath for our last good laugh at the puppets waving their fingers from their limos before an educated, empowered adn liberated people of South Africa bid them good riddance via many many small, concerted and peaceful acts of protest.

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