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Politics South Africa style

This whole debacle of fuckwit Zuma and his clan of corrupt side-kicks continues. Most people in similar situations facing corruption charges (along with with a fleet of other charges) would at least try to deny any wrong doing. Not in this place. Here the whole sordid affair gets handled by publicly threatening the official body that holds the evidence. The Scorpions, who were once praised by the ANC for such outstanding work successfully fighting crime are now ANC enemy number 1 when one of their own got caught with their hand in an arms deal corruption cookie jar!

Quote taken from News24.com

Johannesburg – A top official of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has warned that the African National Congress will not hesitate to “kill” the Scorpions if they continued to pursue ANC president Jacob Zuma, the Sowetan newspaper reported on Monday.

The news report quoted Cosatu’s KwaZulu-Natal secretary general Zet Luzipho as saying: “If the Scorpions bite the wrong people we will kill them. Like a dog when it starts biting relatives at your home. You get rid of it. We will do the same to the Scorpions.”

This comes after a weekend of “proud followers” (God help us all) protesting at police stations insisting that the charges against Zuma get dropped. Are they actually for real or just plain downright stupid? Do these people in South Africa blatantly want a criminal for a president? Lead by example? Hmmmm I guess that’s already the case then.

Welcome to The Banana Republic. Please leave your skins at the door.

Zuma, please, at least just once act like a normal criminal and claim to be innocent even though we all know damn well it’s not true!

 
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Posted by on September 1, 2008 in Politics, South Africa

 

Happy Spring Day

Or not!

Can someone please go outside and tell the weather that it is full of shit and not playing the game! I woke up this morning feeling chuffed that it was now officially spring (in the southern hemisphere) only to freeze my neenees off when I walked outside wearing a t-shirt!

It is cold! Very cold. Best was when driving around seeing newspaper headlines talking about the snow-lashed parts of country. Helllooooo… this is AFRICA. It doesn’t bloody snow here!!! It made for one hell of a mental contrast when talking about fires sweeping through the country along with snow. My mind boggles!

Well well. It seems there could be a few more weeks of snuggling with your favourite someone in front of a warm fire drinking a good South African wine ahead of us.

If you know where I live, I’ll see you outside in 30 mins to build a snowman! If I’m not there, please just start without me. I might be inside in front of a log fire with a good glass of wine… ;-)

 
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Posted by on September 1, 2008 in Hmmm, Interesting, South Africa

 
 
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