Doubt this will pass GO, never mind collect 200 Rondt.
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/lesleyperkes/2013/04/23/keep-your-elections-to-yourself/
G-man:
Mrs. Suzman never called for 'The armed struggle to continue'. Neither did she order "Shoot! Shoot to kill!" at Shell House. She also didn't go arm-in-arm into the fourth Constitutional Workshop with Cyril Ramaphosa asking for one 'simple' amendment; the authority to alter the Constitution with a 2/3rds majority.
Suzman never desperately called for calm after Hani's death after stoking the fires of division and hate for a few years. She also didn't ignore the black-on-white murder tally, and nor did she completely deny the existence of a sinister farm murder rate.
To place the name of Mandela with that of Suzman in the same sentence, is disrespectful of Mrs. Suzman, her family, and her legacy as a compassionate and decent person who did her best for ALL South Africans.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Pistorius and Dewani
William takes a peek at the nauseating NuSAns reaction to both on social media.
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/williamsaundersonmeyer/2013/04/20/pistorius-case-highlights-the-failings-of-social-media/
G-man:
Inasmuch as social media fuels sentiments, it also gauges the mood and opinion of SA society in general on any given subject or catastrophe. In South Africa this was particularly evident when Dewani's bride was murdered at the hands of some common-or-garden variety African street thugs. What was eyebrow raising to we who don't live in SA anymore - mercifully - was the reaction from the SA public, politicians and authorities.
Not only did they condemn a poor man who had just lost his bride, but they were so eager to protect their home-grown scum over an international tourist (I'm sure desperation was a motivator) that they took the word of an admitted killer over that of a man who had no record of criminal behaviour whatsoever. Even the authorities were overly keen to take the words of the Congolese murderer over an innocent man, such was the desire to protect your tourist industry.
South Africans cannot be trusted to behave normally, or respond to tragedy compassionately without taking the knee-jerk route and defending what we normal people see as the indefensible. As with just about everything else in SA, they seem to add an edge to crime, politics and now even social media amongst everything else. You are an aggressive nation and it rears it's ugly head in traffic jams and social media. These are the symptoms of a violently diseased nation.
Time for South Africans to take a very long, hard look at yourselves. To see yourselves as others see you.
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/williamsaundersonmeyer/2013/04/20/pistorius-case-highlights-the-failings-of-social-media/
G-man:
Inasmuch as social media fuels sentiments, it also gauges the mood and opinion of SA society in general on any given subject or catastrophe. In South Africa this was particularly evident when Dewani's bride was murdered at the hands of some common-or-garden variety African street thugs. What was eyebrow raising to we who don't live in SA anymore - mercifully - was the reaction from the SA public, politicians and authorities.
Not only did they condemn a poor man who had just lost his bride, but they were so eager to protect their home-grown scum over an international tourist (I'm sure desperation was a motivator) that they took the word of an admitted killer over that of a man who had no record of criminal behaviour whatsoever. Even the authorities were overly keen to take the words of the Congolese murderer over an innocent man, such was the desire to protect your tourist industry.
South Africans cannot be trusted to behave normally, or respond to tragedy compassionately without taking the knee-jerk route and defending what we normal people see as the indefensible. As with just about everything else in SA, they seem to add an edge to crime, politics and now even social media amongst everything else. You are an aggressive nation and it rears it's ugly head in traffic jams and social media. These are the symptoms of a violently diseased nation.
Time for South Africans to take a very long, hard look at yourselves. To see yourselves as others see you.
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