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[PWV]

Zuma’s “most qualified” minister used staff to write his assignments: report

http://businesstech.co.za/news/governme ... ts-report/

(Was nie seker onder watter onderwerp ek dit kan klassifiseer nie - toe maar besluit op VIR DIE LAGSPIERE!)

[Ferdi]

Oom Pieter

Daar moet eintlik 'n Tragedie hofie wees vir die tipe items. Ek wonder hoe dit moet voel om te weet dat jy deur mense uitgesoek is nie omdat jy die slimste is nie maar die omkoopbaarste en dan sekerlik die een wat die maklikste wol oor die oë getrek kan word as gevolg van jou gebrek aan kennis en vermoë.

[Johan Nel]

Jy moet darem die intonasie van "Best Qualified" se definisie ook verstaan en in ag neem wie die stelling gemaak het...

[LoveHenties]

Hy kry ander om sy vuilwerk te doen. Dus IS hy best qualified.

[THOMAST]

Is maar 'n stomp, ongetemperde bytel, daai ene..

[Riaan Kriel]

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ ... t-20161021

SA gaan onttrek van die ICC en Rome Statuut....... Sou dink iemand raak bang vir internasionale vervolging...... Ook skrikwekkend om te dink dat daar dan geen internasionale aanspreeklikheid is vir misdade teen die mensdom, menseregte vergrype, volksmoord ens is nie

[PWV]

Rotte begin gate soek!!

[tripodmvr]

Hierdie per epos gekry. Weet nie of dit wel 'n koerantberig was nie.

From a different perspective.
Take note. Be prepared.
SA finally African, all thanks to Zuma
By Prince Mashele | May 09, 2016 SOWETAN
In the midst of the political confusion that has gripped our country many people are wondering if we have come to the end of South Africa.
The answer is simple: the thing called an "end" does not exist, not in relation to a country. SA will be there long after Jacob Zuma is gone.
What Zuma has done is to make us come to the realisation that ours is just another African country, not some exceptional country on the southern tip of the African continent.
During the presidency of benncMandela and Thabo Mbeki, some among us used to believe that the black people of SA are better than those of other African countries.
We must all thank Zuma for revealing our true African character; that the idea of rule of law is not part of who we are, and that constitutionalism is a concept far ahead of us as a people.
How else are we to explain the thousands of people who flock to stadiums to clap hands for a president who has violated their country's constitution? Such people have no idea of constitutionalism.
Now that we have reclaimed our place as another African country, we must reflect on and come to terms with our real character, and imagine what our future portends.
In a typical African country, ordinary people don't expect much of politicians, because people get tired of repeated empty promises.
In a typical African country, people have no illusions about the unity of morality and governance. People know that those who have power have it for themselves and their friends and families.
The idea that the state is an instrument for people's development is a Western concept, and has been copied by pockets of Asian countries.
Africans and their leaders don't like to copy from the West. They are happy to remain African, and do things "the African way".
The African way is rule by kings, chiefs and indunas in a setting of unwritten rules. Is there anyone who has seen a book of African customary laws?
The idea that a commoner can raise questions about public money spent on the residence of a king is not African. The ANC MPs who have been defending Zuma are true Africans.
Asking a ruler to be accountable is a foreign - Western - idea. In a situation where there is conflict between a ruler and laws, Africans simply change the laws to protect the ruler. This is why no single white person has called for King Dalindyebo to be released from jail.
The problem with clever blacks is that they think they live in Europe, where ideas of democracy have been refined over centuries.
What we need to do is to come back to reality, and accept that ours is a typical African country. Such a return to reality will give us a fairly good idea of what SA's future might look like.
This country will not look like Denmark. It might look like Nigeria, where anti-corruption crusaders are an oddity.
Being an African country, ours will not look like Germany. SA might look like Kenya, where tribalism drives politics.
People must not entertain the illusion that a day is coming when SA will look like the US. Our future is more on the side of Zimbabwe, where one ruler is more powerful than the rest of the population. Even if Julius Malema were to become president, it would still be the same.
African leaders don't like the idea of an educated populace, for clever people are difficult to govern. Mandela and Mbeki were themselves corrupted by Western education. (Admission: this columnist is also corrupted by such education.)
Zuma remains African. His mentality is in line with Boko Haram. He is suspicious of educated people; what he calls "clever blacks". Remember that Boko Haram means "Against Western Education".
The people who think we have come to the end of SA don't realise that we have actually come to the beginning of a real African country, away from the Western illusions of exceptionalism. Those who are unsettled by this true African character need help. The best we can do for them is to ask them to look north of the Limpopo River, to learn more about governance in Africa.
What makes most people restless about the future of SA is that they have Western models in mind, forgetting that ours is an Africa country.
The idea that a president can resign simply because a court of law has delivered an adverse judgment is Western. Only the Prime Minister of Iceland does that; African rulers will never do that.
Analysed carefully, the notion of SA coming to an "end" is an expression of a Western value system - of accountability, political morality, reason, and so on. All these are lofty ideas of Socrates, Kant, Hegel, and so on. They are not African.
All of us must thank Jacob Zuma for introducing us to the real African Republic of South Africa, not some outpost of European values.

[PWV]

Hulle is stadig maar seker besig om te "decolonize".

[PWV]

DALK 'N NUWE PUPPET??

http://businesstech.co.za/news/business ... tv-report/

South Africa’s new Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has reportedly ordered staff at her offices to switch news channels – from eNCA, to Gupta-owned ANN7, the Mail & Guardian reports.

According to staff at the offices, the order came from Mkhwebane directly to the IT department to make the change. The offices can reportedly only have one feed distributed to the TV screens.

According to the paper, the change was made because the new Public Protector believes her staff needs a “broader perspective”.

While seemingly innocuous, the change has raised eyebrows, considering that Mkhwebane’s ‘preferred’ news source is aligned to the Gupta family, who are currently at the centre of an investigation being conducted by the office of the Public Protector.

Former Protector, Thuli Madonsela initiated an investigation in the the Gupta family around allegations of state capture. The investigation was split into two parts, the first of which was completed and signed off before Madonsela left the office.

However, the release of the report was blocked by two court applications for an interdict, launched by president Jacob Zuma and cooperative governance minister Des van Rooyen – who are both implicated in the report – to be heard in November.

Since taking up her new office, Mkhwebane has made several statements that appear to criticise Madonsela’s running as Public Protector. She has stated that she will run the office in her own way, focusing on the poor, and doing away with the use of consultants – which caused the office to incur R5 million in “irregular expenditure” under Madonsela.

Mkhwebane also stated that she would stop foreign funding of the office, highlighting that Madonsela had accepted a donation of $500,000 from United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Madonsela has refuted this, however, saying that the donation was made to government, which was then made available to the office of the Public Protector for training.

The full report is open to subscribers of the Mail & Guardian.