M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author)
Blog: African-Mauritian v/s Creole
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 29th of October 2010 - 00:00:00]
Politicians should stop playing politics with the education of Mauritian children. The government should dump the alleged Mauritian Slave Creole (MSC) once and for all. Although Mauritians should learn their history properly, any attempt to re-introduce any form of slave language and culture should be resisted in freedom.
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Blog: What Checks and Balances in a Democratic Dictatorship?
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Thursday 14th of October 2010 - 14:31:00]
For a true democracy to exist, people should be objective, should have a sense of justice and fairness, be free from prejudice and should have power to demand a change of government at will. Otherwise, there is no difference between a democracy and a dictatorship....
Blog: Bhojpuri and Slave Creole – Every language must be looked at on its own merits
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Thursday 23rd of September 2010 - 04:32:00]
If the use of Bhojpuri declined in Mauritius during the past few decades, Indo-Mauritians can only blame themselves. However, we should not fall into the trap of always bringing in Slave Creole whenever we talk about Bhojpuri because the two are neither connected nor comparable. Each language must be looked at on its own merits....
Blog: Creole in Education - Dr Bunwaree's Folly !
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 10th of September 2010 - 15:09:00]
If a group comes up with a script for the Madame Séré language, will the government introduce it as an option in primary schools?...
Blog: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari abandons dying Pakistanis in favour of Europeans
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Monday 9th of August 2010 - 03:59:00]
« Zardari's decision to visit Europe as Pakistan is ravaged by floods reflects the elite's flagrant indifference to human suffering », Mustapha Qadri in « Pakistan’s corrosive inequality », Guardian 4 August 2010. In times when Pakistani politicians have turned their guns on their own people to help the terror of Europeans in their occupation of Afghanistan, and in times when Pakistanis are dying in their thousands as a result of floods not known in Pakistan for nearly 100 years, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari decided to leave Pakistan for Europe to pledge, through his big smiles, his support for their terror in killing more Pakistanis rather than demanding that they remove their destabilising, murderous and terrorist forces from the entire region and for the responsible countries to be tried for war crimes, genocides and crimes against humanity....
Blog: L’Express witch-hunt against Cehl Meeah
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Thursday 5th of August 2010 - 16:22:00]
« IL Y A 16 JOURS, LE VENDREDI 16 JUILLET, UNE FILLE DE 16 ANS, DANS LA CHAMBRE 216 D’UN HÔTEL À ….. VERDICT = SEIZE ÈLECTRIQUE! » (l’Express Dimanche 1 août 2010)...
Blog: Raffick Goolfee’s role in the Cehl-Noorah affair
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of July 2010 - 01:57:00]
The fragmented background of the story is that 16 year old Bibi Noorah Careem (initially referred to as ‘Shenaz’ in the press), daughter of Mr & Mrs Haysan Abdool Careem, attempted to commit suicide on two occasions after her boyfriend left her and that her parents could not control her because she was allegedly rebellious and having late nights out....
Blog: Should Education be replaced with ‘ledikasyon’?
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of July 2010 - 00:44:00]
A linguist is expected to know the nature and structure of the world’s languages without having to be an expert in any of them....
Blog: The stolen goal which deprived England the quarter finals
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Tuesday 29th of June 2010 - 20:15:00]
Watching the knockout round in the last 16 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup (South Africa) between Germany and England on Sunday 27 June 2010, I cannot help expressing my revulsion with the referee’s decision to disallow a clear goal against Germany, wrong and evident bias decision which clearly turned the tide against England which ended up losing 4-1....
Blog: Dev Virahsawmy - ‘Motia Hindi’ or ‘Créole grossier’ ?
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Monday 28th of June 2010 - 06:38:00]
In his article « On Bhojpuri », Défi Blog 25 June 2010, Dev Virahsawmy attempts, on the one hand, to insult and demean the Bhojpuri language (spoken and written), which is the mother tongue and ancestral language of around 150 million people worldwide and around 70% of Mauritians who are of Indian origin and, on the other hand, to elevate the spoken language of slaves, which is branded as creole, into a prestigious language. His 300 word article is so full of inaccuracies, wild unsubstantiated claims that readers should be made aware through relevant explanations....
Blog: Arrestable offences - Is Rama Sithanen pleading provocation and/or justification?
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Thursday 24th of June 2010 - 10:24:00]
In a statement given to the Police on 19 February 2010, Rashid Imrith, President of the Government General Services Union, alleged that on 10th February 2010, Rama Sithanen, then Minister of Finance and Deputy PM, called him twice on his cellular phone, abused him and make threats against him, thus making him fear for his own safety. If proven, this constitutes a criminal offence under the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICTA). Following Police investigations, Rama Sithanen was arrested on 16 June 2010, charged under the Act and released on bail....
Blog: La diabolisation de Cehl Meeah continue dix ans après !
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Tuesday 18th of May 2010 - 20:37:00]
« Serving the People for the sole satisfaction of God ! Golden Values: (1) Justice (2) Peace (3) Brotherhood (4) Security (5) Development », Muhammad Cehl Fakeemeeah, Leader du Front Solidarité Mauricienne (FSM)....
Blog: Michëal Sik Yuen’s Best Loser nomination - Should the « sino-Mauritian » category be scrapped?
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Tuesday 11th of May 2010 - 01:13:00]
Given that European first-past-the-post democracy leads to various anomalies and injustices, in the context of multi cultural Mauritius, the Best Loser System was introduced in 1966 to protect minority rights, but this does not mean that the nominated candidate will only represent the community he/she belongs to as opponents of the BLS system wrongly want us to believe through propaganda : « In order to ensure a fair and adequate representation of each community, there shall be 8 seats in the Assembly, additional to the 62 seats for members representing constituencies », First Schedule, Section 3(2), Part 5....
Blog: Navin Ramgoolam – du patois mauricien au créole
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Tuesday 4th of May 2010 - 03:49:00]
Le Premier Ministre adresse les foules normalement en patois mauricien, mais quand il se met en colère, comme nombre d’entre nous, il glisse toujours vers le créole langage d’égouts où les vulgarités, les grossièretés et les obscénités abondent !...
Blog: Que Maurice Piat s’occupe de ses zouaves
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Monday 3rd of May 2010 - 04:04:00]
Nous sommes toujours dans le noir complet au sujet de cette « cause créole » que le rocambolesque Jocelyn Grégoire a su si spectaculairement en faire l’« un des enjeux majeurs des prochaines élections ». Les prochaines élections concernent la politique. Or, Grégoire insiste qu’il ne fait pas de politique !...
Blog: Le créole à l’école serait anticonstitutionnel
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of April 2010 - 01:46:00]
Annoncer que le Premier Ministre a garanti l’introduction, dans le cycle primaire, de cette langue encore très mal définie, et que personne ne parvient à parler ou à écrire de la même manière nécessite des explications de la part du PM, vu que les protagonistes de la créolité refusent le dialogue et refusent de fournir un rapport détaillé d’experts représentatifs de toutes les cultures du pays, et non uniquement des recherches personnelles concernant cette fameuse langue créole, études, qui, selon le linguiste Dev Virasawmy, durent depuis 44 années....
The Best Loser System: The law must be obeyed
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Saturday 24th of April 2010 - 11:00:00]
The BLS system is about an all-inclusive legislature through the protection of minority rights. No judge can reward anyone for a pre-meditated and callous disobedience of the law. Movements which cannot even write and spell properly are consistently disobeying the law and they have the nerve to resort to the law in the hope that it will find in their favour....
Blog: Identité africaine v/s identité esclave
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 23rd of April 2010 - 01:35:00]
L’identité africaine est la véritable identité des Afro-mauriciens, alors que l’identité créole est une vieille identité esclave, aujourd’hui anti-constitutionnelle, mais promue par une certaine église et l’industrie touristique. Pourquoi insister sans arrêt sur le fait que Jocelyn Grégoire est « prêtre catholique » et « homme d’église », alors tout ce qu’il entreprend a peu à faire avec ses fonctions de prêtre ?...
Blog: Rama Sithanen gets a taste of his own medicine
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Monday 19th of April 2010 - 15:15:00]
Former member of the Mouvement Socialiste Militant (MSM), a splinter group of the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM), under which former government he was also Minister of Finance, Rama Sithanen left the MSM and joined the Labour Party. He was duly elected and appointed Minister of Finance in 2005....
Blog: Jocelyn Grégoire et la « dignité » de l’esclavage
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Wednesday 14th of April 2010 - 00:22:00]
Jusqu’à quand va-t-on continuer à nous bassiner avec cette fausse revendication des soi-disant descendants des Créoles et des Marrons ? Au fil des années, nous avons pu apprendre comment des Créoles authentiques se moquent (en privé) de cette démarche lancinante et grotesque des soi-disant représentants de la communauté créole....
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