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SA's financial burden

by Ray Over the past few months the South African public has been informed of several additional financial and psychological burdens. We have the SABC, SAA, Water and sewage looming crisis, Eskom, Toll roads, NHI, to name a few. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitl3eYbY8of4t500uyZzI7uVlEueyXLXWZrdykYpCnfGNCzJIZGKyheTrSGNzd6Y5b4KHSXkZG5mHyfyn2_rigzGvBAlDExKTqDnE7u834MkNqWw_ASnUcz2YUV2pW-fMI2TiuGjezg5d2/s1600/zuma-dummie.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533975326183465426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitl3eYbY8of4t500uyZzI7uVlEueyXLXWZrdykYpCnfGNCzJIZGKyheTrSGNzd6Y5b4KHSXkZG5mHyfyn2_rigzGvBAlDExKTqDnE7u834MkNqWw_ASnUcz2YUV2pW-fMI2TiuGjezg5d2/s400/zuma-dummie.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 294px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>Please don't get me wrong. I love this country and think we have so much potential. My only two issues are that the people in power making decisions are not held responsible or accountable, and the general public is too apathetic. Let’s use the road death toll as an example as it can be applied to all the other failing areas. We appoint people into positions that generally fall into one or more of the following categories - no ability for the position, no work ethic, not sufficient management, not sufficient training, nepotism, political affiliations, skin colour, no experience or no moral fibre. The above may be a generalisation but they destroy the work of the few individuals that really try and make a difference in the average South African’s life. To those dedicated individuals we owe much because they carry the rest. Let’s apply the above to the example: where is visible policing on the roads every day, the ministers getting the TV crews there every so often to boost their image. Fines are seen as revenue and that appears to be the focus. Laws are not enforced - taxis, emergency lane driving, not using indicators, u-turns on highways, talking on cellphones and so on. The traffic officers standards are lower than a few years ago (thank goodness for Outsurance pointsmen). They openly ask for bribes, the anti-corruption call centre number just rings, how many officers get punished, and no a slap on the wrist doesn't count. The standards of driving schools are shocking, learners can buy licences for cash or sex, often the driving school is the broker. To get fines squashed pay the officer a portion of the fine. The booking call centres don't work. You can get the learners tests from the driving schools. Financial mismanagement is a given for government departments, but hey let’s throw some more money at them next year. Heads of department that aren't qualified for positions, managers that can focus on urgent things (and no functions and parties don't count), why don't we increase standards instead of lowering them. This decay hasn't just happened and it’s all over our beloved country, if we want the country to move forward, create wealth and prosperity for all then let’s put the right people in the right jobs, regardless of family relations, skin colour or political affiliations. At what point does the political rhetoric and self enrichment stop, so that the average citizen can be put first. While there appears to be no political will to rectify the situation (lip service does not count), a fish always rots from the head. When you enter public office you make the choice to serve South Africans, there is never any justification to steal, accept bribes etc. Ordinary South African citizens should start focusing on what’s important for our well being and that of future generations, actively take part to make South Africa great. You owe it to your children and other fellow South Africans. At what point does the financial and psychological burden become too great for the average South African and they stop seeing advantages in our country and look elsewhere?

SA's financial burden

by Ray Over the past few months the South African public has been informed of several additional financial and psychological burdens. We ha...

2:47 PM

In Defense of the White Man

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPyfR3DPm92Zy5ziy6Kxjb2aen6__RhHa59R-kvqKP-cGON14oO93vTbsqRty4UVt99ECxBE4kukakErFidlYeQbMlBQFL92cutjjPhOcGUPPO_F39hxgCLtPG52o6O2_25ALZAZR_c4/s1600-h/whitepride-jessicasimpsonflag1yf6.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306912248178189442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPyfR3DPm92Zy5ziy6Kxjb2aen6__RhHa59R-kvqKP-cGON14oO93vTbsqRty4UVt99ECxBE4kukakErFidlYeQbMlBQFL92cutjjPhOcGUPPO_F39hxgCLtPG52o6O2_25ALZAZR_c4/s400/whitepride-jessicasimpsonflag1yf6.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 358px" /></a>By Selwyn Duke NewsWithViews.com While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it’s not really true. Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but it’s always blowing on some people somewhere. Put literally, every age has its fashionable biases – and unfashionable people. This was obvious during the presidential inauguration <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYPi8sSwP5Y&feature=related" target="_blank">benediction</a>, given by the Reverend Joseph Lowery. While making a supplication to the Lord, he made the following anachronistic plea: “. . . help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right [emphasis mine].” Well, I wonder if the reverend has ever asked the Lord why He scourged the world with white people in the first place. It isn’t surprising that <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/the_crime_of_being_white.html" target="_blank">caucaphobia</a> is in fashion. You can demonize any person, group or place; all you need do is focus on the object’s failings to the exclusion of its/his accomplishments. It isn’t even hard to do. To bastardize one of Abraham Lincoln’s lines, if you look for the worst in a group, you’re sure to find it. It’s just as with a person. If I repeatedly disseminated your sins and mistakes among the town folk while downplaying your good points, how long would it be before they were chasing you with pitchforks? So it has been with whites for a long time now. It is not correct to say that history textbooks, documentaries and entertainment inundate us with stories about slavery and civil rights abuses; no, they inundate us with stories about whites’ practice of slavery and abuse of civil rights. There are movies such as “Roots” and “Mississippi Burning” but none of note about the Aztecs’ or Shaka Zulu’s domination of neighboring peoples, or the current African slave trade or Zimbabwean “president” Robert Mugabe’s <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/81386/" target="_blank">persecution</a> of whites and political opponents. Then, relating the American history guidelines of a prominent textbook publisher, the author of The Language Police, Diane Ravitch, <a href="http://www.ednews.org/articles/25/1/Political-Correctness-and-Textbooks/Page1.html" target="_blank">writes</a>: “European Americans, the guidelines suggest, were uniquely responsible for bigotry and exploitation in all human history.” This philosophy imbues school textbooks. While featured prominently are the sins of whites, others’ sins are whitewashed. For instance, due to special-interest-group pressure – such as that applied by <a href="http://www.historytextbooks.org/islamreport.pdf" target="_blank">Moslem activists</a> – examples of slavery perpetrated by non-whites are in short supply or are sanitized. This, despite the fact that Moslem North Africans did at one time capture young boys of both the white and black races, castrate them and sell them into slavery. And this bias is a continuation of decades of anti-white propaganda of the kind embodied in Susan Sontag’s famous 1967 line, “The white race is the cancer of human history.” It’s an idea that has taken hold. Thus must I mount a defense of the white race. But I want to preface it with a few remarks. First, don’t ask why I undertake such an endeavor. When the president has a preacher talking about the black, brown, yellow, red and white, it’s silly to ask why I speak of race. I’m not initiating such a discussion, I’m responding. I’m not throwing punches, I’m blocking. Second, because of this – since I’m refuting those who assign blame by highlighting the sins of whites – it’s necessary that I trumpet whites’ accomplishments. Unlike those I’m refuting, however – who often ascribe the evils they feature to something inherent in whites – I don’t claim there is an innate quality in the race that should be credited with all these triumphs. On the contrary, I believe the force primarily responsible for Western civilization’s glories is Christianity, but that is grist for a different day. It’s not hard to figure out where a defense of whites must start: Slavery. It’s the most odd of issues, in that we all thoroughly agree on the wrongness of it yet it is thoroughly divisive. It is the defining grievance of black America, something that imbues millions of black psyches. As an example, I attended a gathering a few years ago at which there was a certain guest, a rather emotive and outgoing black fellow who was very good at relating every topic of discussion, from the meaningful to the mundane, to America’s slavery. It was as if he could channel Kunta Kinte in every conversation. Yet the reality of slavery is that, along with prostitution, it is one of the world’s oldest institutions. It is mentioned in the Bible and Koran, and, to the best of my knowledge, every major civilization has practiced it. And, if we’re to believe history and Afrocentrists (and I suppose you cannot believe both), the ancient Egyptians were black and enslaved Jews. Moreover, the Islamic slave trade took at least as many Africans into bondage as did the European variety, and African tribes themselves had slaves and sold them to both civilizations. Additionally, while the word “slave” conjures up the image of a black person in the typical American mind, the term itself is derived from the word “Slav.” This is because great numbers of Slavs were once sold into slavery by conquering peoples. In other words, no group ever cornered the market on slavery – it touched ever corner of the Earth. Yet, in the history of involuntary servitude, something else should be noted. It is a startling fact: While whites weren’t the first ones to practice slavery, they were the first ones to abolish it. Let’s be clear about this. Slavery was accepted. It was the status quo. It was an institution whose origin was shrouded in the mists of time. It was unquestioned. That is, until Europeans said “No more.” It was not Asians who effected this bold and unprecedented social change. It was not South Americans. It was not Africans. It was not American Indians. It was not Aborigines. It was Europeans, that cancer of human history, and they were just as white then as they are today. They gave the world change you can really believe in. People will try to explain away this historical fact, saying that this striking example of man’s humanity to man has nothing to do with race. I will simply reiterate that the why of the matter is a discussion for a different day. For now, I’m content to say that if whites can be demonized without explanation for being one of many groups to enslave Africans, they can be credited without explanation for being the first group to outlaw the enslavement of anyone. One of the reasons we fixate on slavery that ended more than 150 years ago concerns the effects many believe it has today. This is called the “legacy of slavery,” which, actually, seems not nearly as big a problem as the legacy of obsessing on legacies. Be that as it may, what is the real legacy of slavery? Well, let’s think about it: Many lament blacks’ economic state in America, claiming it’s part of slavery’s legacy. But where would blacks be were it not for slavery? The answer is Africa, where people’s economic state is far, far worse than that of American blacks. In other words, there is no reason to agonize over an event – even an evil one –responsible for your presence in a country that has offered its citizens unprecedented rights and standard of living. (Of course, to be precise, most blacks currently in the U.S. would not actually have been worse off absent slavery. This is because they wouldn’t have “been” at all, as ancestors whose procreation led to their existence would never even have met. The big picture is a funny thing, isn’t it?) The point is that most people who arrived on American shores were driven here by some kind of persecution. Whatever the reason, however, thank God we’re in the land of opportunity and not languishing in a slum in Asia, South America, Africa or Eastern Europe. So, it’s ironic, but that some blacks were brought here in chains yesterday ensured that their descendants wouldn’t have to wear chains today. Now we come to prejudice, another supposedly characteristic white fault. Yet the truth is quite the opposite. In reality, racial prejudice is probably found least among whites, due to political correctness. Most white children are raised today with the idea that it’s profoundly immoral to be prejudiced (<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59129" target="_blank">I discussed this here</a>). This isn’t to say there aren’t some Archie Bunker types extant, but they certainly aren’t in fashion. Remember, it was mainly white people who originated, promoted and funded sensitivity-training classes, tolerance programs and multiculturalism (come to think of it, I may start hating white people myself). Now, while I consider these abominations to be worse than what they ostensibly remedy, this brings us to a relevant question: Can you think of another group that has gone to the point of self-flagellation to purge prejudice from its ranks? Heck, with how we beat each other up over this, no one really has to worry at all about whites. We’re all black and blue. Then we have the matter of white achievement. The vast majority of what makes the lives of all races better today – modern science and medicine; our luxuries; Western art, literature, legal institutions; etc. – is the handiwork of whites. Oh, this is simply a matter of circumstance, of opportunity, of a twist of fate, you say? Perhaps. Again, this is not the time to discuss the ways and whys. Suffice it to say for now that if President Obama (PBUH) can frame matters in terms of race at his inauguration (and in his books and everywhere else, it seems), I can in an article. And if whites can be ridiculed for their transgressions, they can be recognized for their triumphs. Yet, despite all this and more, caucaphobia is still not only accepted but often encouraged. And the hypocrisy is stark. The left admonishes against making even valid generalizations or entertaining intellectual discussions about group differences. And indulging stereotyping – that specter of egalitarian nightmares – can fast earn one pariah status in addition to a place on the unemployment line. Why, even the positive variety is off limits. We cannot say blacks are better athletes, even though the sports arena may bear witness to this; we cannot say Asians are more intelligent, even though they have the highest average I.Q. of any major racial group; we cannot say Latinos are good dancers (not sure about that one). The idea is that such beliefs can lead to stigmatization or resentment or, or . . . whatever the theory du jour may be. But when the matter is whites, even baseless negative stereotypes aren’t thought cause for alarm. A Reverend Lowery can imply that whites are uniquely flawed and immoral, they can be portrayed as the bane of man, as “the cancer of human history,” and it’s ho-hum. Yet, are we to believe that such demonization magically becomes harmless when whites are the targets? What does history teach about the plight of consistently scapegoated and dehumanized groups? It’s that they almost invariably end up suffering persecution. And given that current demographic trends indicate whites will becomes a minority in America during the lifetimes of many reading this, and given that even majorities sometimes are tyrannized – as Sunnis’ domination of Shiites under Saddam Hussein and the Spartans’ enslavement of the Helots proved – it’s foolish to dismiss the peril posed by mainstreaming caucaphobia. (In fact, whites already suffer the sting of persecution; I documented some cases <a href="http://selwynduke.typepad.com/selwyndukecom/2008/05/read-a-book-get.html#more" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/the_crime_of_being_white.html" target="_blank">here</a>). Yet, that increasingly-maligned dead white male Ben Franklin knew whereof he spoke when he said, “You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.” Prejudice is a function of emotion, not logic, and emotion is like darkness, in that it can be blinding. A person who sees only color – and through colored glasses – will have a powerful immunity to facts. Thus, I only expect caucaphobia to intensify. So what can we do? Well, prayer is always good, so I’ll conclude with one of my own right now. Lord, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will cease the attack, brown will no longer frown, white will be all right – and rhymes will fit the times. Website: <a href="http://www.selwynduke.com/">selwynduke.com</a>

In Defense of the White Man

By Selwyn Duke NewsWithViews.com While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it’s not really true. Prejudice is much like th...

8:43 AM

Cosatu needs a translator; Sexwale gets lost in translation; and Malema is untranslatable...

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0l9ls43nb4EdJXTno3cL5exfRxBpzwRmo2pC4mleHjmk-MRWBgVizzgbf1le2TT9fYCvyE8-en4aKXWTL2uyEw9mxXEHMMCrEI7zS0L2k8MzPjgmTwJTkCgYfK79MB44LvC1yr3zaHBs/s1600-h/propaganda-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298354191450445170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0l9ls43nb4EdJXTno3cL5exfRxBpzwRmo2pC4mleHjmk-MRWBgVizzgbf1le2TT9fYCvyE8-en4aKXWTL2uyEw9mxXEHMMCrEI7zS0L2k8MzPjgmTwJTkCgYfK79MB44LvC1yr3zaHBs/s400/propaganda-1.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 284px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" /></a> Nazi Germany had propaganda waxed; communist Russia was right up there; and while the Americans like to call it patriotism, we all know that it's really just propaganda. Cosatu, hoping to emulate all of the above (except the US, of course, because it is an evil capitalist empire), has produced three million copies of a maroon (yes folks, that's maroon) booklet entitled: 'Defend our Movement: Advance the Gains of Polokwane! Expose and Isolate the Black DA'. Wow. That really is a masterpiece. A little unwieldy perhaps for a pamphlet title, but how would you instil fear, blind loyalty, hatred and intolerance in 14 words? Not to mention that stinging and carefully-crafted insult... TRANSLATING COSATU-ISMS A lot can be learnt from that little maroon booklet. If nothing else, vocabulary. "Their (Cope's) role is to dislodge a progressive ruling party that has the support of the majority and impose the agenda of international capital and its local allies. "It's no accident that almost all the dissident leaders, including former trade unionists, are now wealthy business people. "The very people who, with their capitalist allies, are now mobilising for the dissidents were the most enthusiastic promoters of the pro-capitalist policies that caused all these problems. "They know however that to win support they cannot openly proclaim support for a blatant pro-capitalist project. So they seek demagogically to exploit whatever social grievances they can find among the people, grievances that result from the very policies they imposed while they were in government."<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioN6QXbEg35CfHOYMyLIMQGKeNtyp_x4GsB5tmyGTh79QWNKqgTx8J2mwLSXCf2ZquddHnW3yVlyz72uE6zJM-_nHor2eVkIwCEGQUPASoMSyHYnv7SAq-DY0gncr8zD2Vn-HmekuzKHM/s1600-h/Cosato11--297x250.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298354676658221330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioN6QXbEg35CfHOYMyLIMQGKeNtyp_x4GsB5tmyGTh79QWNKqgTx8J2mwLSXCf2ZquddHnW3yVlyz72uE6zJM-_nHor2eVkIwCEGQUPASoMSyHYnv7SAq-DY0gncr8zD2Vn-HmekuzKHM/s400/Cosato11--297x250.jpg" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 297px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px" /></a>Let me translate: We are scared Cope may get enough votes to reduce our power. We have to say something bad about the guys we used to follow (the fact that there are still many far more wealthy people in the ANC can be overlooked if you throw in the word 'dissident'). Capitalism is the reason that you are poor. Cope is made up of a bunch of liars who will do anything to trick and exploit you. Luckily Cosatu is all about helping the workers see things clearly. "The launch (of Cope) poses a big challenge to workers and the national liberation movement. It could confuse and divide voters, cause enough damage to reduce the ANC majority in Parliament." So, just to clarify — the workers are going to be confused by the launch of a new political party, but not be the word 'demagogically'. Right. I, for one, am a little confused by the ramblings of Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven. On the one hand he says: "What they were fighting for in the ANC is now what they are fighting against in Cope... They even went to the extent of borrowing portions of the ANC manifesto to woo voters." Then, on the other hand, he says: "Cope represents the BEE millionaires, whereas the DA represents the white millionaires, but they are both united in their defence of big business." Erm... so they borrowed portions of the ANC manifesto to prove that they are pro-big business? A PRESIDENTIAL AFFAIR <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0hACBlkLcZLBVpmBu2EQBp4SjCI3KleaACLw2Xg3fOK9Mg5hspl819npCFoXWadlro0KDqTRDAnQ_fz6yXoKpgCSAwR9i35vmmYpZlHL9tjQuHDJ5E95fIONYWQBCffo9ehn0qaurxQ/s1600-h/mothlante.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298355413769107874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0hACBlkLcZLBVpmBu2EQBp4SjCI3KleaACLw2Xg3fOK9Mg5hspl819npCFoXWadlro0KDqTRDAnQ_fz6yXoKpgCSAwR9i35vmmYpZlHL9tjQuHDJ5E95fIONYWQBCffo9ehn0qaurxQ/s400/mothlante.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" /></a>Slightly less confusing (but only just) are the rumours of President Motlanthe's simultaneous affairs with two women, one of whom is 24, pregnant and works at Luthuli House. If true, these rumours raise many questions, the most pressing (and least graphic) of which are: how are we only finding out about this now? And (perhaps just as importantly) why are we finding out about this now? It doesn't matter, insists the ANC's Lindiwe Zulu, because the president's private life is his own business. "President Motlanthe's life, like everyone else's, remains his private life and that we cannot make a statement on his private life at the moment. He is the only person that can be able to deal with his private life." Um... no. When you become the president of a country, you lose the right to impregnate young women working for you without public scrutiny. Just ask Bill. DEGREES OF CRIMINALITY <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawH4MAXg9VR9dJhKjcv447EEn9fT7QorFmg-hA7mEgDHPFonwKCmjh_rFpkFy5f4BhFHaKtUghQFBY_i6BQvoO0oFPv8k_NkphzLsWUJN1TLmuK4YhbIu7WZ4AxaISgk9rvjk4jSizK8/s1600-h/Winnie+Madikizela-Mandela.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298355654463315570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawH4MAXg9VR9dJhKjcv447EEn9fT7QorFmg-hA7mEgDHPFonwKCmjh_rFpkFy5f4BhFHaKtUghQFBY_i6BQvoO0oFPv8k_NkphzLsWUJN1TLmuK4YhbIu7WZ4AxaISgk9rvjk4jSizK8/s400/Winnie+Madikizela-Mandela.jpg" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 229px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 298px" /></a> As electioneering gets underway, the ANC has come under some attack from opposition parties for their inability to fight crime. "Crime is a clear example of the huge gap between what is said and what is done (in the ANC)... We thought we saw the bottom of how bad the failure to manage crime could be but nothing could prepare us for the spectacle of incrimination of the head of police, the persecution of the head of the National Prosecuting Authority and the constant attack on judges and the judiciary." — IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. "Can we trust them to be custodians of the judiciary, when they attack judges? Can we trust them to fight crime when their leaders are dodging their day in court?" — UDM leader Bantu Holomisa. In other news, the ANC is seriously considering putting Winnie Madikizela-Mandela forward as a parliamentary candidate. "I have to look at it carefully, but the way I see it she would qualify (to become an MP). She did not go to jail," said Carl Niehaus. No, but she should have. She was convicted and sentenced — twice, for unrelated crimes. LOST IN TRANSLATION <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEZElS2Ie85oC7jKLcEWVECzY2OU58YuxwbSsbenRfkwr7TR2tOnXoRYaqd8cjrTaHWFL0uDVWedurZoiqkDnWiAyx-Fo9ub7vB5KZdW3FMpdDN2-2d0HgHOuXfLg6jKpCh5zfAQuNB0/s1600-h/sexwale.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298355863988707522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEZElS2Ie85oC7jKLcEWVECzY2OU58YuxwbSsbenRfkwr7TR2tOnXoRYaqd8cjrTaHWFL0uDVWedurZoiqkDnWiAyx-Fo9ub7vB5KZdW3FMpdDN2-2d0HgHOuXfLg6jKpCh5zfAQuNB0/s400/sexwale.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" /></a>Tokyo Sexwale needs a translator or, at the very least, a good PR agent. Using the word 'witchcraft' at a public rally is never really a good idea. Speaking out against Cope, Sexwale reportedly said: "Our mothers are taken, house to house, they are also parade on TV, these people are performing witchcraft with our mothers... They are liars. You can't have respect for people who use older people in that fashion." Unfortunately, you also can't have respect for people who use the word 'witchcraft' in a political argument. Why did Bush invade Iraq? Witchcraft. Why did Mugabe destroy Zimbabwe? Witchcraft. Why did Obama win the election? Witchcraft. He has, of course, subsequently offered an explanation. "We speak rich African languages, mine, Sepedi, Sesotho, Sexhosa. And there will always be the danger... (to try) to make political capital, to reduce very rich expressions said in African languages to a kind of kitchen English. Give it a shot. English does, after all, have the largest vocabulary in the world. Completely untranslatable and incomprehensible is Julius Malema. No number of translators and public relation geniuses can turn this one around. "When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, request breakfast and taxi money. In the morning, that lady requested breakfast and taxi money. You can't ask for money from somebody who raped you," said Malema about Jacob Zuma's rape accuser. Words fail me.

Cosatu needs a translator; Sexwale gets lost in translation; and Malema is untranslatable...

Nazi Germany had propaganda waxed; communist Russia was right up there; and while the Americans like to call it patriotism, we all know that...

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The SABC, a mouthpiece of the state, the ANC’s propaganda tool

<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235417768303777986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3FJ_y1vUe1bJqf8vS5lrfxdpMCnvxnm8LilRw2y3lqy11KeKUIRflBAz6aPV8lCpg-SloVewNiJjPOjWfge22EkQHnsEDwGTsKa69OX9H0oIMWU-PmKzCh7s4Vpf_llYWxwXrdaABns/s400/yourgov.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" />R2.45bn government scheme to help poor pay for TV Pretoria - Government is to provide R2.45bn to South Africa's "poorest TV-owning households" to help them buy the set-top signal boxes they will need once the switch from analogue to digital broadcasting is completed in 2011. "The digital signal will be switched on at the beginning of November [this year] and the analogue signal will be switched off in November 2011," government communications head Themba Maseko told a media briefing in Pretoria on Thursday after Cabinet's fortnightly meeting. Cabinet had approved this digital migration policy, as well as a "scheme-for-ownership-support", at its meeting in Tshwane on Wednesday. "In terms of the proposed scheme, government would provide a 70% incentive for the set-top boxes to the five million poorest TV-owning households at a cost of R2.45bn during the three years of dual illumination," Maseko said.

The SABC, a mouthpiece of the state, the ANC’s propaganda tool

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