South Africa

A new bible has just been released and it goes by the name of "Twelve Rows Back". Go and get your own copy NOW!

He walked amoung us spreading the Word - and it was good....

"The urge of people in the developing world to heap scorn and spleen upon those in the developed is a curious one. In fact, to come across a young man living in a house made of goat dysentery, who spends his days in quivering prayer to a vengeful god (whose divine bipolar disorder ordains everything from thunderstorms to sexually transmitted diseases) and his nights in athletic and arbitrary fornication with any carbon-based, land-dwelling creature he can get his tattooed little hands on, one might be tempted to suggest that the developing world’s insistence that the developed is preoccupied with power, sex and righteousness is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

 

Of course, one wouldn’t want to say this within earshot, since, given his vibrant and earthy connection with his native spirituality, he’d almost certainly assume that you’d heard the pot speaking, perhaps in a clear if brassy voice, and developing-world jurisprudence would be enlisted along with a good length of strong rope and a heap of kindling. It can never be a good thing when one’s trial on charges of witchcraft is halted briefly as the judge recounts with glee how he was winged just the week before by spiteful djinn disguised as an AK-47. And besides, one doesn’t want to be responsible for the inevitable pre-emptive burning of the neighbour’s pretty daughter, who is too pretty for her own good and who has been, you know, looking at decent citizens with those filthy pretty dark eyes of hers. Goddamn witch. Light-of-my-eye, put Junior on your shoulders so he can watch her sizzle."

 

Read it again.....pure genius...

Now you can move on to reading the rest.

Checkout the following article about the actions of the Jo'burg Metro cowboys police -

"On Friday night, officers entered Norwood restaurants demanding to see the driving licences of diners, to check if they had any outstanding warrants or fines."

 

Are we in France circa 1942 where the "authorities" can just bust into a private business without just cause and start demanding ID and interrogating patrons? I don't think so! The Human Rights Commission in responding to news of the raids stated :

"The HRC supports law enforcement, but they are crossing the line if they are doing this. This would be an unwarranted invasion into the private space of an individual."

 

Too right...the Gestapo Metro Police were unrepentant and "warned that sweeps would be extended to homes and business premises." I'm sorry but did you just say homes? That's right - these guys think they have the right to come into our homes in the hopes (note the word "hopes"  - not genuine suspicion) of catching someone who has committed the offense of (wait for it) murder unpaid traffic fines...

Note to Metro READ UP ON OUR BILL OF RIGHTS :

Privacy

14. Everyone has the right to privacy, which includes the right not to have ­

1. their person or home searched;
2. their property searched;
3. their possessions seized; or
4. the privacy of their communications infringed

So unless you got just cause or a court order...go play policeman somewhere else! 
 

Two fires in two weeks at the homes and offices of two major political "movers" in SA....coincidence? Or could the fires be (in whispered tones)......self inflicted? Time to turn to The Prodigy for answers about the typical habits of these firestarters whoever (wink wink nudge nudge) they may be -

Firestarter

Im the trouble starter, punkin instigator
Im the fear addicted, danger illustrated

Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter
Youre the firestarter, twisted firestarter
Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter

 

 

Trouble Starters? Instigators? Firestarters?...............You're damn right!

Not going to allow you to be lazy on this one - GO and read the article, great perspective.

Sasco Sam Floyd Shivambu and the rest of his crew (Sasco/ANCYL) got their collective hides handed to them in the recent SRC elections.-

"Students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have had enough of parties who are out of touch with their political needs. At this week’s student representative council (SRC) elections, the African National Congress Youth League/South African Students’ Congress (Sasco) alliance lost all 15 seats it won in a clean sweep last year."

 

Floyd had this say about the sound drubbing they had received -

"[We lost] because the campus demographics were not suitable for us to win. We represent worker class poor students and we push political issues such as equity and transformation, but the majority of the students do not care about those issues. They care about parking and coffee shops.”

 

Clearly Floyd skipped the Logic 101 Class, so lets help him out a bit. IT WAS A CLEAN SWEEP FLOYD. Are you telling us that you couldn't manage ONE seat with your "workerclass poor student (are we in 1917 Russia?)" connections?? Maybe there is a simpler answer? Could it be that you are completely out of touch with the people you are supposed to represent?

Methinks Floyd needs to study up on Occams Razor...  
 

Very interesting article by Mondli Makhanya in the latest Sunday Times dealing with the "split" in the ANC over Jay-Z. The following paragraphs really caught my eye - 

"In the absence of visible leadership from Mbeki, ANC alliance structures looked for a substitute leader they could relate to. In Jacob Zuma they found a willing and enthusiastic champion. They found in him the comforting father who would listen to their frustrations and share perspectives on the direction of party and republic. When the nation was going through a period of depression over the President’s views on HIV/Aids, Zuma seemed the sensible man, who said all the right things and appeared at all the right places. When Mbeki would absent-mindedly clap along to struggle tunes at party gatherings, Zuma would grab the microphone and lead the masses in song. And when Mbeki was seen on television arriving at foreign locales or addressing high-powered conferences, Zuma seemed to be present on the ground. He came to be loved and respected.

 

So when it emerged that Zuma had sold his soul to French arms dealers and other influence-pedlars, he was always going to be the recipient of great sympathy. And when his supporters started speaking darkly about conspiracies, they found fertile ground.

 

The distant President’s cold and sometimes contemptuous relationship with many in the upper echelons of the ANC and its alliance partners drove senior members of the coalition into Zuma’s hands."

 

Goes a long way in explaining a lot of things about the current Jay-Z debacle...In addition, Makhanya discusses the ugly side of the rise of populism and its danger to our country -

"Should the Zuma camp achieve any measure of success, South Africa’s ruling party will lose much of the sophistication it has developed over the decades. We will see a regression to raw politics — the kind of politics that says it is okay to take short cuts with the law, and which does not respect order.One just has to look at the positions articulated by the Zuma camp during the course of the battle. This camp has, in the words of an ANC activist, “shown us the worst that this country can be.

 

It has told us that corruption is fine as long as it is practised by someone of good political standing, and of sympathetic ideology. The attacks on the judiciary and law enforcement agencies give us a glimpse of how state institutions would be regarded and treated should this camp gain ascendancy."

Great article, definitely worth a read... 

Interesting interview with Patricia de Lille over at the M&G.

I've been a bit disappointed by the last few weeks Lemmer, but today he delivered the goods. Have a taste :

"Anyone who thinks the African National Congress Youth League is a politburo of dour, humourless Marxists clearly hasn’t ever visited the “lifestyle” link on its website, where the young lions hawk distinctly bourgeois accessories to the masses. This week the cadres of liberation are offering a visit to “Cloud Nine Floating and Massage Spa” (storming the barricades of poverty can raise hell with one’s lower back and cuticles), and Lemmer was fascinated to learn more about revolutionary mediation. “A natural high is normally described as being on cloud nine, something our there out of the ordinary [sic], hardly ever achieved under ordinary circumstances.” Does this imply that an unnatural high is something everyday and easily achievable? Deur die blare met ’n bietjie boom?"

 

Are these guys for real??

No, I didn't make this up! Its one of those stories that is so off the wall it must be true :

"Cape Town - Even if he doesn't live up to his name, it's going to take a hard-hearted magistrate to pronounce him guilty.

 

Always Innocent (his actual name) is facing a charge of possession of suspected stolen goods, and was scheduled to have appeared for trial in Cape Town magistrate's court on Wednesday.

 

But, regardless of his culpability he did not appear, and magistrate Aziz Hamied issued a warrant for his arrest. Prosecutor Monde Mfeya said Innocent, who was a foreign national whom he believed was Tanzanian, had been out on warning.

 

He had not yet pleaded to the charge"