The ANC Tells Another Story

Dennis Bloem, Chief Whip of COPE wrote a piece on the recent announcement by President Jacob Zuma wanting to have one capital, which accordingly to Zuma will save the country money.  While it might make sense to have one capital instead of two, it is the cost involved in relocating and finding accommodation, etc., for all the ministers, deputies, security staff, and all the other background employees who form part of the elite. 

In my opinion, the move would give the president and his ministers an opportunity to rob the taxpayers again.  The move will open up an avenue to commit fraud and corruption, and all the Gupta linked, ministers family members and Zuma children will get the tenders and will be allowed to charge astronomical amounts for poor services. 

We only have to look at the tender fraud over the last few years to know that it will not change while Zuma, says THE ANC COMES FIRST.  It is only another opportunity to steal again.

Listening to the State of the Nation debate over the last few days confirms how members of the ANC protect Zuma, and it is all because the president has aligned MP's in such a manner that guarantees his protection.  After-all, if Zuma falls, then so will many MP's fall with their president.  The debates were all packed with lies, and outbursts,  the ANC sounded so desperate with a hint of fear.  I can imagine that not too many people are sleeping well. It must be awful trying to remember all the lies told over the last ten years or so.  The ANC is a dying party, they have raped the country, clinging to the old strategy that APARTHEID caused all the problems, promoting racism, blaming the white minority, and do not know what the word TRUTH means.

The worst part of social justice in South Africa is the fact that the ANC president and members abuse the majority by lying to them. The ANC have perfected the art of lying and sometimes when they speak, the words uttered are so convincing, one would think they were telling a true story. But then one only has to look at the cities, the squatter camps, the broken infrastructure, crime and corruption, to know that it is another ANC lie.
  I cannot remember the name of the ANC member who during the SONA debate said that "under the ANC millions of people have been given homes", I actually laughed and then thought about this statement. Yes, millions do have homes, in squatter camps.  In 1994, there were no squatter camps and now, there are thousands of these filthy, rat infested, tin shacks that have sprung up on any piece of vacant land. Homes that do not have running water, electricity, or proper roads.  What a deceitful party the ANC have become.

Unfortunately for the ANC, the majority are opening their eyes and ears, they are beginning to understand what fairness is, what good governance means and how the country can prosper.  Soon the ANC will lose its power grip and float away. The sad part is that the resources have all been plundered.

Here is the article written by Dennis Bloem, it really is a good read.

PRESIDENT ZUMA MUST EFFECT DRASTIC SAVINGS NOW

The announcement by President Zuma to have one capital is a red herring. If it happens, he will no longer be President. His attempt to assuage the anger of taxpayers who will be incensed with tax increases in 11 days’ time, will not work. Everyone knows how extravagant he has been in using extreme patronage to keep his power base. COPE has repeatedly asked for a massive reduction on the size of government through all three spheres. 

The richest countries in the world cannot afford to carry as many public representatives as we have in all three spheres of government.

While contemplating a move to have one capital, President Zuma could have announced that cabinet would be slashed to 20 ministers and 10 deputy ministers. Such a move would remove the need for houses, cars, offices, staff, and so on for 15 ministers and 28 deputy ministers. In effect the savings would be greater than consolidating the two capitals. The beauty is that this could be done at once.

Last year we pleaded with President Zuma not to accede to salary increases for himself and for public representatives. He shut his ears so tight no sound could penetrate that barrier.

The national debt has soared to over a trillion rand. As a result, between R130 – R140-billion will have to be taken out from the revenue government collected to service the national debt. This reduces fiscal space. On top of that, having an obese government too big to keep awake and too big to keep mobile erodes fiscal space even more. The Zuma excessively extravagant Zuma administration must not look to taxpayers meekly digging deeper to bail out his government. He will soon see tax protestors joining the rank of other protestors. The government must begin with a 60% reduction in the size of government.

President Zuma can no longer have his cake and eat it. Even if the ANC comes first for him, he can no longer pamper them at the expense of the public. Forty three ministers and deputy ministers must go at once. Other tiers of government must also downsize.

MPs and ministers have been equally guilty in allowing the monumental increase in the size of government. They have eaten well and satiated themselves while the poor have grown hungrier all the time. The so called “better life” has been a phantom. The transformation that was promised never happened. Inequality has widened. Society is fracturing. Government has to downsize.

Voters will need to do what ruling party MPs and Baleka Mbete have refused to do: call government to account. They can do so by creating voter blocs in each ward and for such voter blocs to demand proper service delivery. By applying voting pressure, people can take back government and prevent the ruling party from continuing to be the self-serving oligarch that it has been since 2009.

If society fails to act, as ruling party MPs have failed to act, our sovereign bonds will be reduced to junk status and the hardships that will follow for people will be “too ghastly to contemplate”,

Dennis Bloem
Spokesperson

South Africa Exploding Into a Gulf of Uncertainty

Through the arrogance of President Jacob Zuma, South Africa is exploding into a gulf of uncertainty. It is not only the pretentiousness of Zuma but the members of the African National Congress (ANC) party, whom willingly and blindly cover up mistakes, corruption, and mismanagement. South Africa has a president that tramples on the constitution and the ANC refuses to take action. President Zuma will not resign, the ANC will not recall Zuma, and until some legal expert finds a way around the impasse, it is ANC business as usual. The voters have no recollection of the importance of a constitutional democracy and will blindly continue to vote for the corrupt ruling party.

Last week, two political parties went to the Constitutional Court of South Africa in a bid to prove that Zuma undermines the Public Protector. If the Constitutional Court determines that there has been a violation of the constitution and the ANC refuses to impeach the president, South Africa would have a constitutional crisis. It is a classic case of abuse of majority power. It is a real concern that the ANC executive refuses to recall Zuma and it could mean that there is a personal interest to keep Zuma in power, implying that the ANC is corrupt.

Responding to members of parliament on March 11, 2015, Zuma said, “I never took a penny,” and the president repeatedly said that the Public Protector’s findings were recommendations only and not a verdict. A week before the Constitutional Court proceedings, Zuma told the nation that, “I will pay back the money.” It is deceptive and the typical style of the ANC party and president to wrangle itself out of blunders in an attempt to appease the voters and remain in power.

Zuma is a corrupt leader, filling government structures with conformists, in a bid to stay in power. Given the fact this type of leadership is the culture throughout most provinces of South Africa, it renders democracy worthless. For Zuma, this strategy is effective.

Zuma, as head of state, did not respect or promote compliance with the Public Protector. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for the president of South Africa, especially since the Nkandla issue has dragged on for more than two years. The only absolute and positive outcome of the Constitutional Court debate is the reaffirmation of the Public Protector’s recommendations that remain binding. How will Zuma overcome another investigation, should one arise against him, now that the findings of the Public Protector are in the open? The only way would be to change the Constitution of South Africa.
The entire ANC caucus is divided, and this week, several members have turned against Zuma.

Members who still promote integrity, coupled with the knowledge of expecting a leader should, at all times, maintain the dignity of character and advocate conduct that is beneficial for the country. Zuma missed the responsibility of delivering an upright, honorable, and wise government. It is a known fact that leaders of varying capacities, as well as levels of competence, come and go. The decision needs to be made whether to lead toward progress or stagnation, prosperity or hardship. Is Zuma a tyrant, a leader who does not honor justice, and contemporary leader that plunders state resources for self-enrichment?

Most leaders are evaluated by the degree to which they are perceived to have brought economic prosperity to the citizens of their country. Zuma has failed miserably to bring prosperity to South Africa and the economic conditions have declined, which have caused damaging circumstances to emerge.

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Thug to Thug

Gayton McKenzie, once a notorious bank robber and gangster, spend some time in jail and is now a South African motivational speaker and author. McKenzie has done well for himself, and remains on a never-ending campaign trying to combat crime in South Africa. There were rumors that McKenzie bank rolled the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) political party. According to McKenzie, Julius Malema, the leader of the EFF is "the biggest thief I have ever met."

Here is an open letter to JULIUS MALEMA by GAYTON MCKENZIE

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Dear Julius Malema

"THUG TO THUG"

I wronged people in this country two decades ago when I took part in heinous crimes. I have been trying to repay my debt to society for most of the years since. First, by successfully exposing corruption in jail then by speaking to millions of school kids across this country to dissuade them from a life of crime. I am now dedicating my life to Patriotic Alliance, which puts ending gangsterism, but more importantly the conditions that lead to gangsterism in communities, at the top of its agenda. We must get our young people into the mainstream economy.

I see this open letter as part of repaying my many debts to society. If I did not speak up to warn the people of South Africa, but especially our youth, against you, it would mean I have no love for this country.

Julius, you and I are not “revolutionaries”. We both know that. We both shop at the same Louis Vuitton and Gucci shops. We both have watches worth hundreds of thousands. We wear more money on our wrists than a miner at Marikana will ever hold in his hands. This week you had the audacity to say that you wear Louis Vuitton to “inspire the poor”. But the poor get nothing out of you wearing flashy clothes.

For people like us to call ourselves revolutionaries is an insult to history’s real revolutionaries. Patrice Lumumba is rolling in his grave. Thomas Sankara wants to get out of his grave and take back his words that have found their way onto your whisky-swilling tongue. If simply wearing a beret makes you a revolutionary then my mum and all her friends have been revolutionaries for far longer than you.

You have spent more money at any of your own lavish parties than Kenny Kunene ever did. But Kenny never spent public money. It was his own money that he worked for openly. He never earned his money through misdirected tenders to shady companies that were hard to track. You bankrupted the ANC Youth League. You bankrupted Limpopo. You bankrupted yourself. Now you want to bankrupt what’s left of South Africa.

The difference between you and me is that you use politics to take money from the poor. I give money to politics. I am not seeking a position through politics. My name is not even on any list. But you are trying to get to Parliament at all costs. Unlike what you may read about me, I never received any government money. I never received any tenders. I was never a beneficiary in any BEE deal. But you have never worked an honest day in your life to earn your own money. You don’t know what that feels like. You don’t know what it means.

When the doors of government’s treasury were slammed in your face you went immediately to the poor with your cap in hand, promising them the world, when you needed their money to pay for your tax problems. You are like a man who steals a cellphone and then goes back to his victim to ask for airtime. You exploit our people’s genuine hunger for a better life.

You want to nationalise the mines, but that will take huge amounts of public money to sustain, with no guarantees of profit. You will have to take money that we need right now to build houses and schools for poor people and you will have to gamble with that money to build mines. Nationalisation is not woodwork.

Will you be the one to look our old women in the eyes and say that they can’t have their houses today because you want to invest in mines that will perhaps give us profits in ten years’ time? Our minerals will not crawl out of the earth by themselves. And we know that any profits will first have to survive going through your sticky hands before they reach the rest of us.

Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla upgrade was wrong on all fronts. But you also took taxpayers’ money to demolish a R3 million house in order to build a R16 million house in Sandton. Your own EFF commissar Andile Mngxitama criticised you for this very thing three years ago. Does he think you are no longer that man? None of us should be that naive.

You have insulted so many of our people. You insulted MaMbeki. You insulted Baba Buthelezi. You insulted Naledi Pandor. You had to apologise to all of them. Now you have insulted MaKhumalo, Jacob Zuma’s first wife. She is a grandmother and you thought it funny to sexualise her and ask us to imagine her in a bathing suit. Is the only old woman who you respect your own grandmother in Seshego? You speak to no one with respect. Anyone who disagrees with you must know that a choice insult is already on its way from you. When the Public Protector went for you, you had nothing good to say about her. When the same Public Protector went for Jacob Zuma and Pansy Tlakula, you hailed her work. How stupid do you think we are?

Most of your erstwhile comrades in the ANC remain too scared to say anything against you, because they know that they stole with you, right alongside you. You know all their secrets.

You get two kinds of politicians in this country: the ones who come from prison and those who must still go to prison. You belong to the latter. I may be an ex-thief, but you are a present-day thief. You, particularly you, cannot be calling all white people in this country thieves.

I have a serious problem with you telling our young people that they must take the mines and take the land. All you can think of in your choice of language is “Take, take and destroy.” You are inculcating an attitude of taking instead of contributing and working. Our youth do not need that. No one needs that. Our youth need to be empowered educationally and financially to grow this country.

You are the modern-day Nongqawuse. There was no one there in 1856 to warn our people against that false prophet. Somebody needs to have the courage to warn us against you. I’m not scared of you. But I am scared of what will happen to this country if our young people don’t realise what you are before it is too late.

For most of my younger years I was surrounded by conmen and thieves. But you are the biggest thief I ever met. You, truly, are the Con-mander in Thief.

I wish Kenny would take South Africa into his confidence over the real reasons why he left EFF.

Yours truly
Gayton McKenzie, Patriotic Alliance President

Murdering History

Here is a great read, fascinating and true. Absolutely brilliant! Makes sense to me, and perhaps it is about time, somebody told the rioting students that they cannot "Murder History".

Posted by Greer Noble on Facebook who wants this shared.

Probably the best letter I've ever read – how’s the statement “..you’re murdering history.. !?”. It deserves exposure. Distribute it far and wide.

Interestingly, Chris Patten (Lord Patten of Barnes), The Chancellor of Oxford University, was on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 yesterday on precisely the same topic. The Daily Telegraph headline yesterday was "Oxford will not rewrite history".

Patten commented "“Education is not indoctrination. Our history is not a blank page on which we can write our own version of what it should have been according to our contemporary views and prejudice"
Rhodes must fall ????
“Dear scrotty students,
Cecil Rhodes’s generous bequest has contributed greatly to the comfort and well being of many generations of Oxford students – a good many of them, dare we say it, better, brighter and more deserving than you.
This does not necessarily mean we approve of everything Rhodes did in his lifetime – but then we don’t have to. Cecil Rhodes died over a century ago. Autres temps, autres moeurs 2. If you don’t understand what this means – and it would not remotely surprise us if that were the case – then we really think you should ask yourself the question: “Why am I at Oxford?”
Oxford, let us remind you, is the world’s second oldest extant university. Scholars have been studying here since at least the 11th century. We’ve played a major part in the invention of Western civilisation, from the 12th century intellectual renaissance through the Enlightenment and beyond. Our alumni include William of Ockham, Roger Bacon, William Tyndale, John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, Erasmus, Sir Christopher Wren, William Penn, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), Samuel Johnson, Robert Hooke, William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Emily Davison, Cardinal Newman. We’re a big deal. And most of the people privileged to come and study here are conscious of what a big deal we are. Oxford is their alma mater – their dear mother – and they respect and revere her accordingly.
And what were your ancestors doing in that period? Living in mud huts, mainly. Sure we’ll concede you the short lived Southern African civilisation of Great Zimbabwe. But let’s be brutally honest here. The contribution of the Bantu tribes to modern civilisation has been as near as damn it to zilch.
You’ll probably say that’s “racist”. But it’s what we here at Oxford prefer to call “true.” Perhaps the rules are different at other universities. In fact, we know things are different at other universities. We’ve watched with horror at what has been happening across the pond from the University of Missouri to the University of Virginia and even to revered institutions like Harvard and Yale: the “safe spaces”; the ‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬; the creeping cultural relativism; the stifling political correctness; what Allan Bloom rightly called “the closing of the American mind”. At Oxford however, we will always prefer facts and free, open debate to petty grievance-mongering, identity politics and empty sloganeering. The day we cease to do so is the day we lose the right to call ourselves the world’s greatest university.
Of course, you are perfectly within your rights to squander your time at Oxford on silly, vexatious, single-issue political campaigns. (Though it does make us wonder how stringent the vetting procedure is these days for Rhodes scholarships and even more so, for Mandela Rhodes scholarships) We are well used to seeing undergraduates – or, in your case – postgraduates, making idiots of themselves. Just don’t expect us to indulge your idiocy, let alone genuflect before it. You may be black – “BME” as the grisly modern terminology has it – but we are colour blind. We have been educating gifted undergraduates from our former colonies, our Empire, our Commonwealth and beyond for many generations. We do not discriminate over sex, race, colour or creed. We do, however, discriminate according to intellect.
That means, inter alia, that when our undergrads or postgrads come up with fatuous ideas, we don’t pat them on the back, give them a red rosette and say: “Ooh, you’re black and you come from South Africa. What a clever chap you are!”1 No. We prefer to see the quality of those ideas tested in the crucible of public debate. That’s another key part of the Oxford intellectual tradition you see: you can argue any damn thing you like but you need to be able to justify it with facts and logic – otherwise your idea is worthless.
This ludicrous notion you have that a bronze statue of Cecil Rhodes should be removed from Oriel College, because it’s symbolic of “institutional racism” and “white slavery”. Well even if it is – which we dispute – so bloody what? Any undergraduate so feeble-minded that they can’t pass a bronze statue without having their “safe space” violated really does not deserve to be here. And besides, if we were to remove Rhodes’s statue on the premise that his life wasn’t blemish-free, where would we stop? As one of our alumni Dan Hannan has pointed out, Oriel’s other benefactors include two kings so awful – Edward II and Charles I – that their subjects had them killed. The college opposite – Christ Church – was built by a murderous, thieving bully who bumped off two of his wives. Thomas Jefferson kept slaves: does that invalidate the US Constitution? Winston Churchill had unenlightened views about Muslims and India: was he then the wrong man to lead Britain in the war?”
Actually, we’ll go further than that. Your Rhodes Must Fall campaign is not merely fatuous but ugly, vandalistic and dangerous. We agree with Oxford historian RW Johnson that what you are trying to do here is no different from what ISIS and the Al-Qaeda have been doing to artefacts in places like Mali and Syria. You are murdering history.
And who are you, anyway, to be lecturing Oxford University on how it should order its affairs? Your ‪#‎rhodesmustfall‬ campaign, we understand, originates in South Africa and was initiated by a black activist who told one of his lecturers “whites have to be killed”. One of you – Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh – is the privileged son of a rich politician and a member of a party whose slogan is “Kill the Boer; Kill the Farmer”; another of you, Ntokozo Qwabe, who is only in Oxford as a beneficiary of a Rhodes scholarship, has boasted about the need for “socially conscious black students” to “dominate white universities, and do so ruthlessly and decisively!”
Great. That’s just what Oxford University needs. Some cultural enrichment from the land of Winnie Mandela, burning tyre necklaces, an AIDS epidemic almost entirely the result of government indifference and ignorance, one of the world’s highest per capita murder rates, institutionalised corruption, tribal politics, anti-white racism and a collapsing economy. Please name which of the above items you think will enhance the lives of the 22,000 students studying here at Oxford.
And then please explain what it is that makes your attention grabbing campaign to remove a listed statue from an Oxford college more urgent, more deserving than the desire of probably at least 20,000 of those 22,000 students to enjoy their time here unencumbered by the irritation of spoilt, ungrateful little tossers on scholarships they clearly don’t merit using racial politics and cheap guilt-tripping to ruin the life and fabric of our beloved university.
Understand us and understand this clearly: you have everything to learn from us; we have nothing to learn from you.
Yours,
Oriel College, Oxford

The Filthy Townships of South Africa

Yes, it is appalling, to say the least, townships in South Africa are filthy. One would imagine that after 21 years of democracy, living conditions of the poor would have improved. Not here, it seems as though life has become so terrible that people have no choice but to live in dirty, overcrowded surroundings. Besides townships spewing out filth all over the place, hostels are another concern that depicts how dirty people have to live.

The Democratic Alliance (DA), Johannesburg mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba, said that he was ashamed to call himself a South African after visiting the Madala Hostel and Alexandra, a township situated near the almost perfect suburb of Sandton. He described the filth, the broken windows, doors, and living conditions as dreadful. Water, electricity, sanitation and pollution all contribute to a health risk for the people who live in townships.

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) have over the last 21 years done absolutely nothing to uplift the poor, yet expect these people to cast a vote for a government who does not care. The gullible people, many unemployed, do receive grants from the ANC and thus appear to be content to carry on voting and at the same time living in these terrible conditions. 

Democracy has brought freedom to most South Africans and an opportunity to rise above the shackles of apartheid yet the living conditions have deteriorated to such a pathetic state and I wonder if people really care. I suppose that not all the blame can be cast on the ANC ruling government, after all, people could take the initiative and clean up after they mess. It appears that people might be too lazy to through papers in the provided dustbins; it is easier to throw it in the streets. People cannot expect others to clean up after they mess, it is unfair. On the other hand, the government could have made provision to house these people in better surroundings and provide proper infrastructure. 

Several suburbs in Johannesburg were reserved for “whites” only during the apartheid years and after the 1994 democratic elections saw the move of many black, colored and Indian families move into these areas. These areas had proper infrastructure, clean and decent but over the years, the deterioration has become so infested with rats, dirt and overcrowding. It is almost as though once decent living quarters have turned into township status. So then, I guess it is the people who prefer to live in these conditions. 

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