These are words attributed to Thabo Mbeki. Following the fiasco with the last elections in Zimbabwe, (look it up man, where u been hiding?), Thabo went to Harare, and met with Mad Bob. Afterwards, they did the usual posing for the media for photos. they were pictured holding hands (a la lovers?), and Thabo made a statement around the fact that as far as he could ascertain, there was no immediate crisis in Zimbabwe, and that the fact of the matter was that the events which were taking place were as per the process written in the Zimbabwean constitution! (They have a constitution?) Antway, our media was all over this, and attributed the comment "Crisis, what Crisis?" to him.
Now I'm not here to debate the facts. Or the correctness of the quotes. What has happened in the past few days / weeks in South Africa with the xenophobia, has given rebirth to the statement. In fact, some or other idiot from government, who visited Alexander soon after the first attacks, spoke to the media, and said it could not be labeled a crisis. When an event like this affects only one area, and is perpetuated by a small minority, this does not constitute a crisis. Ok, so now its 20 locations around Gauteng, 22 people killed in one way or another, over 5000 illegals are now refugees in our country. So, now do we have a crisis?
Salagatle!
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Nope, it's not a crisis yet, as no-one in government has declared it a crisis. Further to that, it will never be a crisis as no-one will ever admit to there being a crisis and no-one in government will ever admit to anything.
The government in this country is so great that we will never, in our entire future, ever have a crisis again. Then again, no-one admitted to anything in the past being a crisis, so the next one will be our first. But wait a minute, with government never admitting to there being a crisis, we will never ever have a crisis in the future...
So much coverage about the student video and nothing about the killing riots in Alex. We have to call it by its real name and stop minimizing it by calling it xenophobic actions... For God's sake!
A2Z
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