Been looking around on this space called the "internet" for some alternative sites that you guys can go to whilst I'm away next month. Found a couple which our ex-pats will find handy (if they're not already aware of them). Apparently these "specialist" sites are becoming very popular offering a wide variety of services.

Just when I thought things are "settling down" out pops another jackass with the brilliant idea that English will no longer be compulsory at schools. This one comes from our newly crowned and latest member of the ANC jackass club, Naledi Pandor, our Education Minister.

According to a report in the Sunday Times (May 15 2005) English and Afrikaans will be optional subjects as will the balance of South Africa's eleven official languages. Matric exams will be replaced with a new system with "life orientation" becoming compulsory. The grade system will also be replaced. This all to fall in line with government's "plan" for universities. Currently universities. have entrance exams for matriculants due to the terrible state our school education is in. A matric certificate has no value whatsoever anymore. The only good thing coming out of all of this is the fact that maths or maths literacy will become compulsory.

Now, considering the bulk of our historical white schools teach only in English and / or Afrikaans, there will be chaos if these plans are introduced by 2007. There are even talks that it will be introduced by next year! Goodness me. Don't these people learn? Do they really have no sense of reality? Where did Pandor study? Russia? Cuba? Zimbabwe?

This is utter rubbish and if it was the 1st of April it would've been a major joke. But it's not. Currently schools are suffering from a lack of infrastructure, books and qualified teachers. Most of our eleven official languages don't even have words describing the new world we live in. Never mind text books. I could go on and on but someone else got this all tied up nicely.

Methinks there's a big plot here. Mbeki preaches reconciliation and forgiveness. "One nation" is being proclaimed by the ANC government. In the meantime they're slowly but surely wiping out the white man and what he stands for. Conspiracy theory? Well, see if you agree -

First individuals were targeted with the "reconciliation" thing back in 1994. Whites had to come "out" and declare their regret at what they had to do under the apartheid government. These were mostly government officials (re. police) whom had little choice seeing that they could be without a job if they didn't. Well, most left the service anyway.

Then government started with their black empowerment drive, targeting mines and obviously government departments. Following this came whole departments being run by families and their friends. Each foreign business deal government conducted had to have some local black flavour in it. Promises of rooting out corruption didn't amount to much especially considering people like Winnie Mandela, Tony Yengeni and lately Jacob Zuma. Not even mentioning all those ministers who pleaded idiocy with the whole "travelgate" scam. In fact, most of these people have either been carrying on quietly or promoted to a position outside of the public eye.

Slowly but surely government started putting the squeeze on companies, starting with the major corporate's. Understand that by this time they've already decided that Telkom should milk the economy in order for this "public" parastatal to make more money than ever before. Of course they get their cut every year! Transnet was a shambles with white senior executives being moved out and replaced by blacks. Understand that there are plenty black individuals that knows business, but the majority don't have a clue.

Absa is becoming a mess at the top, so are most other banks and insurance companies (Liberty Life springs to mind). Obviously the guy in the street don't have a clue what's happening at these places without a bit of inside information. The SABC has become the official 'brainwash" medium for the ANC which by the way, are only employing blacks these days. Smaller companies are forced out of business because they cannot afford to comply with this whole BEE scheme and therefore no more government contracts. And even the big ones have to have equal partnership or some alliance with a black partner.

Land reform is another one that was designed to screw the white man. Black people were put on productive farmland which has not produced anything nor contributed to this country's economy - in the majority of the cases. More and more white farmers are being attacked and murdered as a concerted drive to intimidate white farmers into leaving their land. Commandos were disbanded and incorporated into the SAPS where government can exercise control over what they do when and where.

The Scorpions was the only "mistake" Mbeki made but they're quickly busy fixing that one! Our judiciary is under attack at present with white judges being branded as racists and not conforming to change in the new South Africa. Afrikaans schools were forced into accepting English speaking black students from their surrounds even though there were black schools who could accommodate these kids. Stricter discipline was exercised on white kids branded as racists by their black students purely to get "back at the white". Universities. won't accept top white students because "they don't fit into the student profile". Additional charges are being levied on all and sundry to make more money not only to "sponsor" the influx of jobless black shack dwellers but also enrich local ministers and their buddies. Blacks in general are more racist these days than ever before.

Now they're attacking our schools, again. Targeting the universal business language as well as our own Afrikaans which the majority of South Africans understand and speak. Afrikaans is spoken in more households today than any of the other 10 official languages.

And people say they cannot understand Mbeki's "silent diplomacy" stance with Mugabe? Look at history (recent history) and learn!

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