Dominic Mahlangu

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THE DA wants the ANC banned from SABC election debates after supporters of the two parties clashed in Johannesburg after the latest TV show.

DA MP Ian Davidson said supporters of his party were assaulted with pipes and bricks by ANC supporters outside the University of Johannesburg, where the debate was taking place, on Sunday night.

He said: ‘‘The DA will write today to the SABC … requesting that the ANC be banned with immediate effect from taking part in the SABC election debate series.’’

The debates are screened on SABC2.

The ANC played down the incident, saying that the DA should report the alleged attack to the police if it had evidence.

Davidson said ANC supporters began misbehaving even before the show started when DA supporters were prevented from taking seats in parts of the hall where the debate was to be staged.

‘‘As a number of DA supporters took their seats, they were blocked by ANC supporters who sang ‘Block them this side, block them that side … we want to kill these dogs.’”

SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago said the corporation would investigate if the DA complained.

Davidson said a charge of assault will be lodged with the police once a report on the injuries suffered by DA supporters had been completed.

Via TheTimes

It is time that white South Africa accepted defeat and move with the times

The title of this article was inspired in part by the recent article which was written by Mr. Thula Bopela (see here) and largely by events which I have seen unfold over the last 15 years. These events have led me to conclude that Whites in general will never accept that they lost power, especially to a so called lesser race in intellect or that they are under a Black led government which is not going anywhere, anytime soon. The veteran comrade made a compelling argument in his article whose sentiments I fully agree with hence I decided to advise my White counterparts and fellow Black people who are in their pockets that the game is over.

They need to accept the fact that we have a Black government in power that was given a mandate by the masses and it is answerable to the general populace and not only them or their narrow interests. They must realise that we won’t allow our government to succumb to narrow capitalists’, selfish and/or self serving ambitions anymore which the latter successfully lobbied in the past 14 years. We expect government to forge a mixed economy where all this country’s citizenry will have a say in the running of its affairs. The Whites I’m referring to must accept too that no amount of abusing or manipulating the judicial system, the watchdog institutions who are but toothless when it comes to matters which affect Blacks and the media plus all forms of communication channels, will sway the South African voters. This confidence on my part is deduced from a Zulu idiom which goes “ukubona kanye ukubona kabili” or once beaten twice shy in English.

The days of apartheid era tactics, manoeuvres and tendencies of White people which were designed to force their will on our people will never return and are long gone albeit economic power still very much rests with them. As a people, we won’t ever again allow a minority to dictate terms to the majority of this country and those days which were characterised by the marginalisation of Black people and Africans in particular in all spheres of life will never again grace our shores. The sooner some people accept this fact the better for everyone concerned because then we can learn to coexist. Their silly innuendo in various radio stations and newspapers with an audacity to (ab)use courts in an attempt to discredit and vilify those who represent the majority are annoying though.

No longer will our people subject themselves to being ridiculed and embarrassed for taking principled positions which are seen as an inconvenient truth by the minority. Of course the comments made by the honourable state president in waiting Dr JG Zuma in Sandton at the BPF/BBF joint sitting, encouraged one to expect that the abuse levelled against our people is a thing of the past and that the wrongs committed back then will be corrected, if not reversed in the new administration. The president in his heartfelt address (see here) attested to the need to redress the economic imbalances and correct the misalignment of the past. He added that we need to utilise the Black middle class in order to make a lasting and far reaching impact in forging economic reforms.

He went further to say that the reason that an apartheid created middle class couldn’t work or make any impact was because they represented a minority group and thus they didn’t extend a helping hand to the majority whereas a Black middle class will be expected to reach a larger pool of people. He made a call to the Black professionals to go back to serve the public sector and help it to become efficient before they can have aspirations of going out to business.

We urgently need to transform the economy so that it becomes representative of the demographics of this country lest we risk the poor revolting against our government which they will see as colluding with their oppressors. That way our people can stop being useful idiots and servants to the highest bidder ‘cos that makes us compromise our being. Those White folks who are still stuck in memory lane need to subscribe to the adage, “if you can’t beat them, join them”. Zuma cited a perfect example, using the Afrikaners whom he said realised that they were no longer in control and were feeling left out, hence they started engaging various key stakeholders in an attempt to become part of the new dispensation and/or its processes instead of bickering or leaving the country and jokingly inferred about those who hold two passports in certain instances.

Without exonerating this grouping, but they realised that this is their land too albeit stolen with bloodshed and murder of our forefathers as Bopela rightly pointed out. Those resident dreamers, who remain fixated in the past, are like children who have skipped some developmental stages and in later years/adult life regress to the stage that they skipped. If anyone of the White people I’m referring to are hoping that may be some day power will revert to the oppressors, they have another thing coming.

Activists like myself will die first before we can allow any domination of the majority by the minority. This promise includes Black on Black oppression by the way, which further translates to a warning that the Black middle class is forbidden from oppressing our brothers and sisters who are still in the lower ranks of the various classes in society because we will fight them with the same venom we fought against Whites. It is for this reason that we need to guard against complacency in our midst, particularly the upper echelons of our party because it is they who are tasked with implementing these reforms as such it can turn out to be counter productive and discourage a lot of people if they abdicated their responsibility or neglected their duties.

The White folks were for instance given ample opportunity by their forefathers in a racially discriminatory, divided and exclusive government but they refuse to allow adequate time for change to effect equality in all respects. Their forefathers had to succumb to pressure from economic sanctions after 300 years but not until they were sure that they had starved us long enough to be able to get moles within or in our midst to continue to do their dirty work. Organisations like the Confusion of Angry people, is but one such example of initiatives and/or formations with leaders who are being used to fight against the government of the people, for the people and by the people (i.e. the ANC). Actually, the less said about COPE, the better because all they offer is confusion, anger, zeal for power, greed for economic wealth and selfish interests.

It is the Disgruntled Alliance (aka Democratic Alliance whom I’ve christened because there is nothing democratic about their practices) that I should perhaps devote a lot of attention to because of the constituency they represent. This is another such party which cannot escape my criticism and what with their futile exercise of a campaign to stop the ANC’s inevitable two-thirds majority. They are splashing out millions on propaganda ad campaigns instead of concentrating on their own programmes and what they have to offer the SA voters. More recently, Mrs. Helen Zille showed her true colours, when she threatened to take her attempt to stop democratic processes where South Africans are expected to vote for Zuma as head of the ANC into the presidency come April 22, by ab(using) the discredited constitutional court (see here).

This just shows the lack of tolerance from her party and again without failing to disappoint me about her racist tendencies, she also threatened to send the army in order to bully the taxi operators, in Cape Town, into accepting a BRT system that she neither consulted them about nor did she have any intention of doing so at any stage of her consultation with all the affected stakeholders. This of course is a typical White mentality that, “you don’t negotiate with a Black (as they regard us) but you simply give them orders and if they don’t comply/carry out those instructions you beat or lock them up”. They are so used to our brothers and sisters being their garden boys and kitchen girls respectively that even when they meet their match they fail to realise it. They can’t transcend from a home economics mode to a real life situation where they cannot only accept us as equals but perhaps having an upper hand in certain instances.

The afore mentioned despicable behaviour by the un(honourable) mayor of that city is a typical Terror Lekota (her new comrade in arms who is prepared to die for her, as he once claimed in their fuss of a convention in Sandton) bullying tactic which had one outcome – an egg on his face. We all still remember how he tried this stunt to disastrous consequences in Khutsong a few years ago, when he sought to force the people of that part of Gauteng to accept being moved to a smaller and impoverished province, thus forgetting a valuable lesson taught to the oppressors that no matter what weaponry the army has, the people will come up tops or with alternative tools to withstand their might and succeed at disorganising them.

In order to bring down the apartheid regime and render this country ungovernable, our people used stones and petrol bombs thus we were able to face and brave rubber bullets and at times live ammunition plus teargases against the oppressor’s dogs of war and emerged still united even in defeat. The DA represents backward politics and a White minority group which still harbours hopes of taking us back to the ugly years of being in the dungeon when we were regarded as second class citizens. This party of the affluent, particularly English speaking Whites still dreams that they can determine the future direction of this country by using any means necessary to enforce a minority rule with racially exclusive laws and dictate terms to us including who should become our president and/or who should occupy certain key positions in government. I am astounded by their arrogance which proves one thing and that is that these people only know democracy when the results suite them otherwise democratic processes are simply meaningless.

In conclusion, I want to say that I love White people but these parties and individuals who claim to represent them are doing a disservice to them. These parties won’t succeed in their evil intentions and those Blacks who collude with them will fail too. For my part I welcome everyone to join the ANC branch in which I belong or elsewhere, be it White, Yellow or green because I believe that everyone has a role to play and can add value thus making the ANC a party of choice which can make a better life for all a reality.

Musa Xulu is head of ANC media & communications in the greater Johannesburg region. The views expressed in this article are made in his personal capacity.

Via PoliticsWeb

If we may be so bold as to say “fuck you Xulu you racist buffoon”. If you’re still thinking in black and white then its is you that will fail. You didn’t bring down the Apartheid government with petrol bombs and stones, the change came as a result of cooperation between intelligent, free-thinking individuals during a time that required great courage of ones convictions – these are things which you DO NOT possess.

Frankly, Xulu you should be tried for hate speech and then put in a public square so that true South Africans (of all races, ages and cultures) may pelt you with festering turds for that is all that you deserve, you utter disgrace to the good people of South Africa.

Ok, so it’s Photoshop and actually no he doesn’t have a profile, well maybe he does but we can’t be bothered trying track him down.
Here are a few other Jacob Zuma groups though:

Group: Help us stop Jacob Zuma from becoming South Africas next President

Size: 63,614 members

Group: FUCK JACOB ZUMA!!!

Size: 864 members

Group: I hate Jacob Zuma

Size: 114 members

Thanks, again, to the SystemShock community. Big ‘ love ya’ll.

ZUMATELLO: Weapon of choice - showercap

God bless the fine people of Slackers for this one and the SystemShock Community for creating this little gem.

Thanks to Kevin Jones for sending this picture in, it’s a classic.

Thanks to Slackers, where we found this. And credit to ThoughtLeader.

Register to vote in 2009

Bathandwa Mbola

19 September 2008

The Independent Electoral Commission has called on South Africans who are not registered to vote in next year’s general elections to do so between 8 and 9 November, when voting stations will be open from 8am to 5pm.

A further voter registration drive will be held in February 2009, for those who missed the previous campaign or for those who want to make changes to their personal details or residential addresses.

According to the commission, there are currently over 20-million registered voters on the national voters’ roll, together with 137 registered political parties.

“In a proportional representation system such as ours, every vote counts,” Chief Electoral Officer Pansy Tlakula said in Johannesburg this week.

“I trust that South Africans will come out in their numbers, firstly to register and then cast their votes as we together continue to shape our amazing country’s future.”

President Thabo Mbeki’s second term in charge of the country comes to an end in April next year, by which time he will have announced the official election date.

Election preparations

In preparation for the election, the commission is recruiting and training 59 115 election official to help conduct the registrations, while it has already started procuring vast quantities of materials to be used to persuade South Africans to exercise their voting rights.

“These include 20-million voter registration forms, 300 000 street pole posters, 44 000 stationary packs and 40 000 banners,” said Tlakula. “In addition to this, we have begun work on enhancing our IT infrastructure to ensure the smooth running of the registration, voting and results processes.”

Significantly, the commission has replaced its aging fleet of scanners and now have 30 000 new units which will be used for the registration weekend.

Free and fair elections

IEC chairperson Brigalia Bam said it was important for all the commission’s systems and employees responsible for the management of the election to be independent, impartial, transparent and accountable in their functioning.

She stressed that the 2009 elections would be free and fair, and would not be compromised by political interference.

The IEC was formally established in terms of Chapter 9 of the country’s Constitution and the Electoral Commission Act of 1996.

When the IEC was established in 1997, South Africa did not have a national common voters’ roll. The first voters roll, compiled by the IEC in 1999, contained more than 18-million names. Ten years later, the number had grown to more than 20-million.

The country also did not have any voting districts until the IEC created 14 650 of them between June and November 1998, for the first registration weekend. This year the commission will increase the stations to 19 705.

To find out if you are on the voter’s roll, SMS your ID number to 32810 or visit the IEC website.

SAinfo reporter

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The following is taken from a statement to the Human Rights Commission “by” Malema on behalf of the ANCYL:

Dear Chairperson,

The African National Congress Youth League requests the South African Human Rights Commission to make an urgent intervention on the recurrent statements and public utterances of Mr. Patrick Lekota, the founder member of the splinter rebel political movement, recently resolved by a Convention at the Sandton Convention Centre. In his many interviews and public utterances, including on the interview with Kaya FM on the 30^th of October 2008, Mr. Lekota has said that the leadership of the ANC and ANC YL will kill anyone who does not vote for ANC President Jacob Zuma in the 2009 General Elections.

In the statement the ANC YL jointly released on the 3^rd of July 2008, it was clearly stated “Mr Malema appreciated the criticism levelled against him for using the word “kill” and recognizes that the word could have been interpreted differently.

Wait, wait, STOP right there! WTF?! “The word “kill”… could have been interpreted differently.” Are you fucking nuts? We refer you the long list of definitions for the world kill.

Just how do you suppose “kill” could be interpreted differently, you slithering big bubble-headed moron, please enlighten us?

Mr Malema also explained that it was never his intention to incite violence and undertakes never again to use the word and is committed to democracy and the advancement of human rights”. Even on the metaphor we used at the June 16 Rally, we never said that the ANC YL will kill people who do not vote for the President of the ANC.

You did, actually – “take up arms and kill” were your words, exactly.

The ANC YL is concerned by the utterances of the of Mr. Lekota as they seek to entail that the ANC YL will literally kill people who do not vote for the African National Congress in the incoming General Elections. Mr. Lekota continues to say and imply that the ANC YL and/or its members and leadership are potential murderers and/or assassins who will kill people for political reasons.

The ANC YL re-affirms its commitment to non-violent political engagements and interaction and re-emphasises the reality that our organisation and the entirety of its membership will never do anything that violates our Constitution and democratic principles. We further re-affirm our commitment we will never incite violence or engage in anything that might appear as if we are inciting violence. The ANC YL values the Constitutional principles, which those who came before us fought for and will never undermine anything represent.

For the record, the ANC YL will be at the forefront of ensuring that the 2009 General Elections are the most peaceful elections to ever happen in South Africa. So anyone who seek and attempt to link the ANC YL to political violence should not be given any consideration.

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We therefore would like to request the intervention of the South African Human Rights Commission concerning the allegations and cheap electioneering of Mr. Lekota on things we never said in the statement we discussed and clarified with the SAHRC. We believe that the continued allegations and utterances by Mr. Lekota that the ANC YL or any of its members are potential murderers and/or assassins violate our rights to integrity as individual members of the ANC YL and as an organisation.

The ANC YL will continue to hold the SAHRC in high regard and hope that yours will remain a responsible and focused task to protect our Constitutional democracy and human rights. The ANC YL respects all Constitutional rights and freedoms, including the freedom of expression, within the context of South Africa’s Constitution and the limitations provided thereof.

We hope that our most sincere request will be attended to whilst await a prompt response and intervention,

Yours,

Julius Malema, ANC YL President

Many thanks to kaapstorm for the source link.

Thoughts South Africa?

Quoted from Wikipedia:

Motlanthe is a shareholder of Pamodzi Investment Holdings. In February 2006, auditors revealed that a total of about R2 billion in loans by the Land Bank, a government institution established to help farmers, had gone sour. Earlier, a R800 million (about $112 million) 10 year loan had been given to Pamodzi. This amounted to nearly one-third of the Land Bank’s total assets, and was a non-agricultural investment.

Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the new President of South Africa – Kgalema Motlanthe.

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