On 9 January 2018 at 21:29, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote: > It was said to have been Adolf's idea to shrink the two o's at either end > of the *O Heraldo* masthead, in a manner which would allow* > zero-Herald-zero* (as some paste-up artists then called it) to gain a new > English-language name and also, simultaneously, retain its privileges by > way of old registrations, then critical newsprint quotas, etc. > > Brilliant, we then thought! ----------------------- 1) The credit for the idea to shrink the size of the o's and make it Herald (from O Heraldo) is claimed by many people who were working there when the transition happened. Shamir Deniz being one. Someone should ask around and settle the matter once and for all.
2) I notice that the owner/moderator of this Group is allowed to indulge in 'crossposting', but when anyone else cross posts he disapproves. Cheers! Cecil ============= Cecil,On attaining independence, a lot of African leaders (Tanganyika included) introduced laws to squash democracy. The first law they introduced, was the Preventive Detention Act. This act allowed the President to detain anyone before he said or did anything to hurt himself. The next step was to introduce a one party state where there were two candidates for each post - but both candidates were carefully chosen by the President or ruling clique. As you can imagine, there were a whole lot of people standing in line to bow to or flatter the President. Those who wanted change had two choices, they could leave the country or they could go to jail. I had relatives who went to jail in Tanzania. I had relatives who moved out of the country. I also have relatives who decided to stay and eventually the change came. The cost of the faux democracy was that Tanzania lost a generation of its brightest minds to the west. The country had puppets running the show and these people had no problems threatening anyone who disagreed with them. A country or group becomes vibrant when expression is encouraged. When rules as simple as no cross-posting are enforced on some and not on others, one usually ends up with what happened to the formerly beloved Bob of Zimbabwe. Mervyn
