Please note... I will not entertain anymore political discussions on this blogg. It is my blogg, my opinions, and my "political" comment is not open for discussion. I don't post lies, so cannot be challenged about my facts!
I got an interesting comment from a fellow blogger, and decided to post a reply, which turned into a thesis, which I then decided to post here. He has a good site. Visit it.
His comment:
I wonder which part of South Africa you come from as I seem not to recall us having portions of our country where things are as horrible as you claim. If you could maybe bring us into your confidence about schools that have been closed and kids sent to one in white areas. Black people shouldn't`t be blamed for not voting for the white party of your choice which state it will come to power in 2020. South African politics are moving away from colour as determinent and as such there wont be a predominantly white party to talk of in 2020. I think it is about time that some white people be liberated from the victim mentally and to start seeing themselves as South Africans. That way they will start enjoying this beautiful country the Proteas and boerewors.
http://mo-afrika.blogspot.com/
My response:
Mo-afrika..... thanx for visiting. This is my blogg and hence my personal opinion. Visit Moglakeng outside Randfontein to see closed schools, and then travel to Randfontein High School, and see the mess!
For you the world looks very different, and maybe righfully so. You probably had a disadvantaged childhood, which means that today's democratic and free world is Utopia. However, from my side of the fence, things have definitely gone backwards. Not to take away from all of the good that has been done here, but if you consider that Khutsong was burning just before the elections... And the ANC still won......Makes you think. Typically you also won't be experiencing the same frustrations as I do around work, and job opportunities. Someone will offer you double your salary and poach you from your present employer..... Read into that what you want! I'm not sure where you live, but if you go into the so called townships, you will see how the people live in absolute squalor and poverty, and in most cases in conditions worse than during the apartheid era. Except they are now free! As for building backwards, Baragwanath Hospital was the biggest, most successful hospital in the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE! Now it's a shithole, manned by mostly non-English speaking Cuban doctors, with most of the wards closed down, dirty walls, stinking toilet facilities, patients lying on makeshift stretchers on the floor, and other having to bring their own blankets and food even. And nursing staff who spend way too much time striking! Don't tell me you don't know where I live. I live in Africa!!
And finally, I believe that within the nest 20 years we could have a predominantly white party in power. I really do. And why? Probably because many of my fellow Africans will have perished due to AIDS, which our government is trying to cure using the African potato and olive oil as remedies. Maybe because I believe that Bird Flu will eventually make the genetic cross over to humans on this continent due to lack of facilities and understanding. North of our borders, governments are trying to slaughter infected birds, and the population are taking these and eating them! They don't' believe there is a thing like Bird Flu. (maybe just another right wing / Western / White plot to undermine the African?!)
These scenarios are all very sad, but probable. I am a realist my friend, and call a spade a spade. No strings attached. I write what I feel and think, I am obviously an emotional type, sometimes writing stuff even I don't know where it comes from... But that's me.
I see you say Tsotsi making us proud in your blogg. Did you happen to mention that some African called in to a local radio station (before the oscars) and slated the directors / producers of the movie, saying that it was not proper for a WHITE man to portray an African situation like that!!!
You say ANC takes all except right wing Cape Town.... Interesting theory that CT is Right wing. Why? Because the votes was split and a so called white party won more votes than the ANC? Does that make the voters right wing? Or is it the fact that there have been continued blackouts (Power failures) in Cape Town over the past few months, and no sign of improvement, with reports from the ANC government about suspected sabotage, etc. Emanating from the situation?Or maybe the fact that for all the time the ANC did "own" the city it did nothing to alleviate the plight of the needy / poor. There were more fires in the area, including Table Mountain and on the Cape flats in the past 5 years than ever before in any 5 year recorded period!!! Thanx to cost cutting by the ANC and therefore not enough fire trucks, or firemen for that matter.
What about the students at the Pretoria Technicon just yesterday!
Due to the striking Transnet employees (Transnet runs the local train service amongst other things), the Transnet group were laying on bus services for its now stranded passengers. So the university found that the bus services it had contracted for was not available, and so arranged for alternative transport for its students, including a boatload of mini-bus taxis.
The students didn't like this, so they protested, and trashed their campus. They then traveled in the "offending" vehicles to the other campuses belonging to the Technicon, proceeded to disrupt lectures and trashed those campuses too.
Now for you who don't know, when these students do the trashing thing, it's serious. We not talking about overturning some dustbins. This is breaking windows, doors, burning books, tearing out toilets and urinals. Burning desks. This is real time rioting!
And why? Because they were not happy with the transport arrangements BECAUSE THEIR FATHERS / BROTHERS / UNCLES / LOVERS WERE ON STRIKE AT TRANSNET, WHICH CAUSED THE FUCKING BUS SHORTAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AND THESE ARE OUR "EDUCATED" FUTURE!!!!
http://www.pretorianews.co.za/
Wake up bro. It is a beautiful country, with beautiful people, and we are a democracy. But in it's infancy, clutching to the breast of the mother that feeds us because we know no better.
Salagatle!
4 comments:
Firstly, my apologies to Wreckless for what has turned into a novel of sorts on his blog, but I have to go with him on this one.
Sure, some of what we see and hear in the media is hype and sensationalism, but the reality is that these things are really happening!! And happening in "Mo's" "Afrika", right now. Affecting "Mo's" people, right now. Brought on by (mostly) "Mo's" people and government, right now.
I found it disturbing and sad that, apart from his first and latest postings, Mo's blog is dedicated to reporting violence and politics, and not much else. The sooner our (predominantly) black population changes its mindset about being aggrieved due to the "past regime" and gets fully into becoming a part of the rest of the world and wanting to make a difference to the good for the country instead of just continuing to want everything for fuckall, the better for us all.
The gravy train has new masters and it's full to overflowing with people wanting their cupfull. It's time this "new" government (they've had 10 years, how "new" can they still be?) became accountable to the very voters who put it there, otherwise these same voters need to shut the fuck up and take what the corrupt politicians are handing them (or not, in most cases).
Schools and universities are places of learning, and should be kept as such, and not be breeding grounds for wannabe politicians (as Billy Connolly once said, anyone who even has aspirations of becoming a politician should automatically be precluded from becoming one and be drowned at birth) and youth uprisings.
Churhes, Mosques and Synagogues are places of worship, in whatever faith is worshipped there. Leave them as such and leave religion in the churches and out of politics. Like sport and politics, they just DO NOT mix.
And it's not just the government that needs to be held accountable for non-delivery. The corporate monopolies (read Eskom and Telkom, among others) need to be taken to task too. I was in the eastern Cape on holiday over the Cape Town power failures and, due to the ineptitude of Eskom's capacity planners, they decided to "punish" (that's what I call it, for want of a better term) the rest of the region by cutting their power to feed the Mother City. This is a typical case of lack of Corporate Governance and, in the States and Europe, executives would in some cases be jailed for delivery failures such as these. Here, on the other hand, ABSOLUTELY FUCKALL happens to them and the country just shrugs its collective shoulders and carries on, regardless (or is that "ignorantly"?)
As Wreckless ends off on his posting, it is a beautiful country, with beautiful people. I'm a born and bred Scotsman, and I've been here for 37 years as I've made this beautiful country my home. It has the potential to be a world leader, not just a continental leader. It's people and leaders just have to wake up to the fact that the potential is there and that they can make a positive contribution to it and drag SA into the "First World"....................{end of rant. Sorry Bro}..
As a final comment: Mo, from what I've seen of your blog and comments, you're so far left you've actually become a fucking rightwinger yourself... "Keep the Faith"? What's your faith? Faith is personal...keep it to yourself or shut the fuck up and write something constructive. Like most of the rest of us do...
Thanx Bro.....
I acknowledge that this is your blog and that you hold the prerogative to what can or cannot be posted on it.My commenting on your views was not meant to undermine this RIGHT but just for us to debate these issues so we can gain a deeper insight on the issues we raise and how we feel about them.
I must confess that I find your views very refreshing and thus the temptation to regularly visit your blog and post my comments on issues you raised.
I am a historically disadvantaged South African who happen to have been to every part of South Africa.I have also been to a number of African countries and those in Europe and South America.
I was born in a village in the present day North West before proceeding to a township called Meadowlands in Soweto.I also know Motlhakeng township in Randfontein and many other townships in the country for that matter.
And so do I know the Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital quite well.
I am at the moment resident in the beautiful town of Tzaneen in the Limpopo province where I am a partner in an engineering firm and also write a satirical column for a local newspaper.
I am providing this detailed backround to enable you to have a fair picture of what type of a person am I.
I still maintain that things are not as gloomy as you are painting them.This goes for the Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital.The Gauteng Health Department has just completed a massive face lift to the General hospital Hillbrow/Berea which is also one of the biggest health fascilities.
As to my view on Cape Town...these have been widely catalogued to a point of an assembly being held last year by Cape Metro to deal with this perception/reality.
HIV/AIDS and bird flu are taken seriously here and elsewhere in Africa.Just this morning it was reported on SAFM that all African countries have plans on how to contend with bird flu.This puts to rest the possibility that there will be more white people for a predominently white party to win government.
Thanks for an interesting and refereshing blog site.
Thanx Mo... and keep visiting, just no politics ok!
Salagatle
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