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Long time since the last ramblings, but after legitimizing my OS I have things finally (sort of) sorted out. This meant I had to install a later version of my editing software which I'm not too fond of, but we'll cope for now.

Sorry to say but this week is all negative except for one - let's get the good news (as far as I'm concerned) out of the way first :

90 Odd days before the FIFA Soccer occasion hits our stadiums. That's great and I'm sure certain business people are licking their lips, counting the Dollars with already over-inflated prices on everything they could possibly make a buck out of. In spite of that, I reckon that we as a nation (in general) can't wait to watch this spectacle unfold and even more so, how many foreigners will fall in love with this place.

I'm proud to be South African and I love this place. I want the world to love it too. And I think we will pull this one off to the surprise of many. Yes, I was against this purely for fear of visitors leaving with a negative impression and never returning. We have the opportunity to change all this and reverse some of the damage caused by criminal activity from the past.

If only our government would play ball post the soccer world cup.

The other piece of good news is that Zuma got shot down by the British government regarding ANC pal Mugabe. It must be understood that the sanctions placed on Zimbabwe involves individuals and not the country. As a previous Nobel peace price winner from Kenya (if I remember correctly) stated - donations are drying up because of mismanagement of these funds. Massive projects have come to a standstill because the Western world have finally realised that Africa as a whole is a bottomless money pit. Most of these people do not want to learn how to fish, they just want the fish. The world owe them the fish.

And this is an age old problem in Africa as a whole. In general most black governments keep on blaming colonialism for their own failure to become fully independent and self supporting. They cannot accept the fact that they keep on failing - I can relate to that. To digress a bit - I ran a franchise business and now matter how hard I work and how much time and money I put into my business, there is little growth. If you ask me it's the franchise that's the problem. It is impossible to put so much into something and nothing is gained. But alas, it is possible - I'm a techie and not a businessman. I need to level-up and become a businessman.

The same can be said about our ANC government. Most of them try to govern, they make laws, they impose their will on the people, they raise taxes and levies and yet cannot deliver on their promises. I've been in business three years, they've been governing for 16 years. How much longer do they need before our country seriously fall to pieces?

Our positive attitude towards the Zuma era is fading fast. He's a popularist, he's one of the people and has too many flaws as a human being as well as a leader to lead this country into a new era of well-being. We look at the people who are mostly positive and want to make things work for all of us. Then you get the militant youths who are out for revenge for what their grandparents had to go through. All they want is death and destruction. Dare I say that the once militant right-wing white is no more - it's all black now.

Popular social network Facebook had a posting from a PAC activist claiming that if blacks are too scared to kill off whites, that they have the people standing by to do the job. Of course the PAC distanced itself from this viewpoint but also refused to remove the posting. I searched for this but could not find it, though the political PAC group on Facebook had a total of seven militant members only. This is the kind of crap we have to stop.

Historically the black people in this country stood together against the white government and forced the abolishment of apartheid - which was good at the time. They gained their so-called freedom only to trash it. And the people who did the trashing were all educated in foreign countries (like the UK) and are sitting pretty at the top, scooping off all the cream with the masses still suffering.

No wonder they (the masses) want more and riot instead of working for it. Silly demands such as more free electricity whilst the people who are actually working and paying more for their electricity, must just keep on paying. This is the common sense that prevails amongst the common black people. And that's where the little fools with their militant views can cause a lot of harm. They need one instigator and with a bit of intimidation a whole township can be swept into a frenzy about things they don't understand and couldn't care less about as long as they get something out of it for nothing.

I am waiting in anticipation for the next wave of major strikes coming up just before the soccer kicks off. Remember the Bafana Bafana players refusing to play (Egypt 2006) unless they get paid more?

Our Julius is in a spot of trouble again, this time him and his adopted "father" Zuma failed to reveal all their business interests. The regulation that Zuma himself signed off on specifies that MECs including the president must declare all financial interests within a specified period after taking office. Zuma has not done this and after a newspaper report on Malemas' ultra lifestyle, it's become apparent that he himself has some outside interest after claiming that he has none and lives of the meagre 20 thousand Rand the ANCYL pays him.

Now it's come to light that the engineering firm that lists him as a director has been scoring major contracts from government and has been doing a pretty crappy job of things. So, it's not just the RDP houses that's been built sub-standard (for which white contractors were blamed mostly).

And of course, as is typical of our ruling party they shun the nation and clamps down. To them it does not matter that the tax payer is paying for this, it just matters that they keep on doing so.

"He has a right, because these are the privileges and rights that we have fought for," ANCYL Western Cape spokesman Ndoda Ngemntu told a media briefing in Cape Town.

"We are not saying there is anything wrong with people accumulating wealth, because at the end of the day it is this African National Congress that fought for the distribution of wealth. "It cannot be the situation we're in, [in which] only the few that benefits, only those that are not members of the ANC. "If we are saying as the ANC we are creating a better life, members of the ANC must benefit from the better life."

Pity about the majority of ANC members who are still living in poverty.

08-Mar-2010

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