Friday, June 5, 2015

Zuma gets a salary increase


I am knocked for six by the devotion some people have for Zuma, I wonder if the people are stupid or under a black magic Zuma Spell.
In South Africa, people are still living in tin shacks, starving and cold, yet Zuma received a seven percent salary increase. Does Zuma deserve the salary increase while the economy is on a down slide? What are the ordinary people saying about this?

Somebody asked a question,  “why increase his salary now, someone please explain.”

The answers are astounding  
  1. It is a board salary increase for all public office bearers.
  2. Zuma deserves one.
  3. So what!
  4. That’s nice!
  5. Petrol has increase, I don’t see anything wrong with that.
  6. That’s good!
  7. Zuma is entitled to a salary increase.
  8. The country needs the money more than he does.
  9. The ANC belongs to Zuma.
  10. Stop criticizing our President.
  11. We have an obligation to our President.
  12. The man has to support his wives.
  13. Viva President JZ.
  14. You deserve it my President.

 Another Question -  “the condition of the economy is not good, the government should focus on uplifting the economy. The President was fine with his current salary and the state dresses him, transports him, built a mansion for him, so why does he need an increase.”

Answers 
  1. Not everyone has the benefits he as,and the president has to put the people’s needs first.
  2. Many people are angry about the cost of his house, only the ANC members are happy.
  3. Shouldn’t the ANC focus on winning back voters from the DA rather than the president's salary
  4. Well, the people living in shacks are not happy about this.
  5. Don’t you think the taxpayers need to have a say?
  6. The timing is wrong, and the increase unnecessary.
  7. Am wondering if the ANC care about the people after hearing about this increase.
  8. Keep in mind the president puts the people first so he deserves the increase.
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Zuma the champion of the black people. 

Thursday, June 4, 2015

DA whooing ANC voters

How do ordinary people respond to political party campaigning, especially if there is a fierce loyalty towards the ruling party? Well, it was recently discovered that there is a mixed reaction to recent campaigning by a political party and a firm loyalty in protecting the ruling party.

Shame on the Democratic Alliance (DA) for targeting black people in squatter camps, offering food parcels in exchange for votes.  Is this true, well according to several people it is. Apparently the DA were visiting communities on the West Rand recently, and people are upset, especially the staunch African National Congress (ANC) supporters.

According to reports and comments, loyalists to the ANC are saying –

  1. ·         It must be brought to the attention of our ANC government, the DA is manipulating our people.
  2. ·         Poor campaigning strategy
  3. ·         That is an expired DA strategy, and I wonder “politics for food parcels” – what would happen when the hungry man is bellyful.
  4. ·         Let the people take the food parcels, encourage them to go and take the food and eat with their children, encourage them to vote ANC. Finish and Klaar, warn them about this empty rhetoric Maimane who is taking advantage of their circumstances. It is not as though the  DA has the welfare of the people at its heart. ANC is the only hope for every citizen of this Republic and Africa and the World at large.
  5. ·         It’s a good thing for people to get food from somebody and a free T-shirt as well. I don’t see anything wrong when they go to the people. The people will stay loyal to the ANC
  6. ·         The Da is for Whites finish en klaar and they use Maimane to manipulate and blind blacks into believing the DA is for all South Africans.
  7. ·         Now that Helen Zille is not leading the pack, it is the beginning of the downfall for the DA
  8. ·         ANC is the future of the company
  9. ·         The DA can march together, apartheid bring back our money, apartheid bring back our land.



The above comments are from loyal ANC supporters, and it would seem that the DA are going to have a tough time trying to convince the people that there is a better life away from the ANC.


Please note the views expressed above are not mine. I am posting, you can decide.



South Africa Current Employment Scam

South Africa Current Employment Scam

South Africa


The current day employment scam in South Africa is to get rid of white people. Competent, skilled people who have the ability to do the work required and ensured competence all round. The public sector has replaced skilled workers with staff that have low IQs and obviously cannot do the job as experienced as the previous team.
Surprisingly, the new appointees all earn good government salaries with a guaranteed annual increase and benefits, all paid for by South Africa taxpayers. Besides having secured a good paying job, there is the added benefit of protection from the progressive labor laws in South Africa, a law that favors the worker.
When service delivery falls apart, and the state-run departments start failing due to incompetence, the reliable solution is to hire consultants. Outsourcing to consultants that come in and get the work done on behalf of full-time, well-paid staff that do not have the skills. The exorbitant fees paid for the services of consultants is another added expense. The hiring of consultants is to hide the incompetence of the workers who do not know how to get the job done. Some of the hired consultants are the very people who were previously employed in the government sector. The government uses the taxpayers money to pay for two people to do the same job. While the black employee is only placed into these positions for window dressing purposes only, it is the consultant, previous employed white person that is used behind the scenes.
It is estimated that consulting fees cost an average of ZAR30 billion. Over the past years, taxpayers had to fork out more money each year to pay for the government’s deficit. South Africa has a smart government who are prepared to pay consultants double for what the debt amount is and raise taxes to pay for stupidity. Is this the ultimate plan to create jobs, and keep people employed simply because nobody wants to hire unskilled people. Perhaps this is the plan of the government to create jobs from taxes that was not earned in the first place but spend like there is no tomorrow.
It is obvious that there is no accountability, and the hiring of consultants will not end. While South Africa does have the financial capacity to take care of all citizens, yet it is evident from the budgets that irregular spending does happen. It would depend on the ordinary people, irrespective of race in South Africa to keep provincial, local and national governments accountable and deal directly with officials that are squandering funds unnecessary. Unless determined action is taken, the squandering of resources will continue unabated.
It does not matter what party is voted into power if there is no accountability. South Africa is falling apart from the corruption, fraud, and crime. Added to the already high crime and corruption statistics, wasteful squandering of funds to pay double for a skilled task to be performed is dangerous to any economy.
Public officials need to understand the responsibility and act in a professional manner. It should be a priority to inform government employees of the serious consequences for any mischievousness while working in the public sector, and suspending an official with full pay is another factor that needs to be resolved. Far too many corrupt officials do not bother with accountability as there is always the benefit of being suspended for months with full pay. Every public official from the cleaner to the president should take an oath to the country and people to serve in an accountable manner at all times.
Opinion by Laura Oneale - published today on the Guardian LV

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

South Africa Recent Crime Roundup

South Africa Recent Crime Roundup

South Africa


Crime in South Africa is rated among the highest in the world and the recent roundup of criminal offenses that have occurred over last few days does not indicate any control over curbing the violent crimes. While browsing through the media and court records, there were scores of petty to serious crimes committed over the past few days.
A photo of a police officer caught sleeping while on duty went viral on Facebook. The officers were sleeping in a police car that was parked at a petrol station on Sunday morning. Yusef Abramjee head of crime line asked the Gauteng police commissioner to investigate and take the necessary action. Apparently this is not the first photo of policemen caught napping instead of curbing crime.
On Monday morning this week, the body of a baby was discovered near the Greenstone upmarket shopping center in Gauteng. The baby was dumped in a medical waste box. Workers of the Solid Waste Department of the City of Ekurhuleni discovered the baby. It is confirmed the baby was born in the early hours of Monday, and the forensic department will investigate. The gender or race of the dead child was not established.
A group of heavily armed men wearing blue overalls and balaclavas stormed a busy shopping mall in Bloemfontein. The robbers took an undisclosed amount of money from a chain store and expensive alcohol from a liquor store. The police responded and a shootout between police and robbers ensued. During the shooting, a police constable was shot in the hand and underwent surgery and is currently recovering in hospital. The criminals hijacked a vehicle, with a woman and child inside the car and sped off. Later on the child was dropped off at the mall and found by police. The woman who sustained injuries was dropped off outside a hospital. Police subsequently recovered the stolen car in Gauteng. The police together with the shopping center management are hoping the video footage will help to identify the perpetrators.
Crime inside prisons is not uncommon in South Africa and over the weekend a raid on a Westville prison in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal proved that more must be done to curb criminal activity within the jail walls. SIM cards and cellphones were discovered including unearthed phone chargers. Charges were connected illegally to power points linked to ceiling lights. Signal jamming is a problem within the prison walls, and prisoners are not allowed to keep cell phones while serving time. It was confirmed that almost 70 cell phones were seized. During the raid, drugs, dagga and mandrax tablets were confiscated. Perhaps the most surprising find was 50 litres of homemade beer brewing under the bunk of one of the prisoners in a cell shared by 60 men.
During the extensive prison raid, and it was discovered that it was business as usual for some convicts. One ran a taxi business from within the jail walls. Gangs formed within the confines of the prison walls are often the most dangerous perpetrators.
Crime on the streets and crime in the prisons does not send a positive note to the citizens of South Africa. It is obvious that prisoners have influenced the warders to assist with keeping crime alive within the confines of prison. Corruption is perhaps the biggest criminal offence in South Africa. The daily roundup of crimes committed in and around South Africa does not stop. There are numerous unreported crimes, and the people of South Africa have become accustomed to the danger lurking around each corner. Reported incidents of crime taking place often do not send a message of hope especially when police officials sleep on the job.
Opinion by Laura Oneale - Posted on the Guardian LV today

Monday, June 1, 2015

South Africa Education Was Better Under Apartheid

South Africa Education Was Better Under Apartheid

South Africa


The South Africa education system today is a disastrous system and under apartheid proved to be a better solution for all citizens. The failing rate and standards of students attending schools and universities are shocking. The African National Congress (ANC) repelled all the apartheid acts in 1994 and set out to change the education system to demolish segregation in schools across the land.
During apartheid, education was segregated, and ethnic groups attended schools or universities designed to meet the requirements of the apartheid laws. Apartheid is condemned, a human rights disaster and no longer applicable, yet the substandard of education today is placing South Africa into a category of being the worst schooling system in the world.
In 2013, Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, a South African politician and leader of the Agang SA party said the education system during apartheid was better than the current structure of the ANC government. Ramphele said the biggest crime committed by the government was the role of destroying the quality of education. The global competitiveness of Education confirmed the lower substandard of education now and as Ramphele said it was a major concern for the younger generation of today. Ramphele did acknowledge that there were more graduates today than under the apartheid system but referenced the quality to the high unemployment rate.
The 1959 Extension of University Education Act made it a criminal offense for non-white students to register at a university without written consent by the Minister of Internal Affairs. However, the act also provided for the establishment of new ethnically based institutions for blacks and other cultural groups.
During this time, Afrikaans universities, Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Orange Free State, including the English Rhodes University were restricted to whites only. The Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape was for non-whites. More university opened around the country, although not fully multiracial, kept classes segregated. Natal University, Cape Town, and Witwatersrand allowed other races to attend the higher education facilities.
The apartheid government established new universities for the multicultural ethnic groups and a university in Bellville; Cape Town was built for the colored people. Ngoye in Zululand was created for the Zulus, Duran Natal for the Indians and Turfloop in the former Transvaal (now Gauteng) for the Sotho-Tswana population.
The popular Fort Hare universality was attended to by ANC opponents including, Nelson Mandela, , Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Robert Sobukwe, Oliver Tambo, Desmond Tutu, Kenneth Kaunda, Robert Mugabe (president of Zimbabwe) and Joshua Nkomo. It is overwhelming to understand the offer of free education by the apartheid government to these members who became tyrannical front-runners.
Nelson Mandela became the first non-white president of South Africa and during 1940 spent two years studying Latin and physics at the Forte Hare public university in the Eastern Cape. Mandela wrote about the time spent at this apartheid university in an autobiography, and said, “For young black South Africans, like myself, it was Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale all rolled into one.”
The matric or grade 12-pass mark for real maths drops every year and points to a failing school system. In 2006, the ANC stipulated that every student must write either maths (recognized by universities) or maths literacy (not recognized by universities) to matriculate. Over 327 schools in South Africa dropped maths as a subject and offer maths literacy.
Dropping maths and introducing the simple maths literacy subject is an admission that the ANC government failures. The plummeting standards of education are a reason there is a lack of qualified engineers, doctors and intelligent teachers in South Africa. The country is not producing enough young people with physics and maths skills.
During apartheid years, the black students were well educated because the white government set higher standards. Today the ANC government treats the students like stupid idiots. The education crisis cannot be blamed on apartheid.
The architect of Apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd as Minister of Native Affairs at the time when it was pivotal to position the goal of separating the races, commented on the place of blacks in the European community. Verwoerd said, “There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labor. What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice?” The point made by teaching mathematics if it was not going to be put into practice makes sense. However, it is more to the point of ensuring all South Africans understand the importance of mathematics to progress and ensure a better future for all.
Perhaps it is the statement made by President Jacob Zuma: that since 1994, the ANC government had immensely improved the lives of citizens that needs to be explained. When education standards are dropped to achieve a high pass rate to make a statement of how great the progress of education has become. Yes, the country is in good hands.
Opinion by Laura Oneale - Published on Guardian LV

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