The Dumb Award goes to...

...Mr KA!

The a*hole today not only tried to tell me, the person that has managed to built a website, do the seo and within 2.5 months have this website stand on more than 2000 visitors for the last 30 days - that maybe I should use Google Analytics and SEO to get more visitors... in the meanwhile, MR KA has a an obscure website that needs a lot of SEO, not to mention someone to read the copy he has in Afrikaans (not able to find a link to the English version) - adding some bullet points won't hurt either.

Maybe Mr KA should focus on learning to read and not to leave unpaid accounts for advertising. People like this piss me off. A*holes that think they are smarter than me - right...

Another criminal walks free

I am so disappointed in South Africa's justice system. We might as well let all judges, prosecutors and police officers go - criminals (murderers and white collar criminals) rarely get convicted in this country, so why bother paying salaries for people that have less rights than criminals?

Jacob Zuma, Mr I take showers after (allegedly) raping a woman in my home to prevent getting aids, is now rumored to get off with no jail time after (allegedly... read definitely) accepted bribes from French arms dealers.

Read these articles:
first article
second article

I move to take all bodyguards away from political party members if the tax payer forks out the money for it. It is their personal safety - they should pay for it themselves. They earn and steal enough money to afford it.

Politics and religion...

Zuma attended a Rhema service this weekend. This is deeply disturbing as 1) is he a memebr of this church or just a 1 day attendee? 2) is he trying to use religion as part of his political party's campaign? 3)did he shower before going into the church to wash away all the lies?

Then Zuma went as far stating "the struggle" was like when Moses got the Israelites out of Egypt... tut tut... blasphemy is a sin.

Now... as far as I can remember a lot of things were done by both sides. The ANC has just as much blood on their hands with all the bombs and landmines they planted that blew up innocents/children.

http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2485997,00.html

Past. Ray McCauley het Zuma te midde van luide applous verwelkom en gesê Rhema “hoop al maande lank” om die ANC-leier in dié kerk te kry. Zuma het van die verhoog af gesê sy gunsteling-boek in die Bybel is Eksodus. Hy het ’n lyn getrek tussen Moses wat sy volk uit slawerny gelei het en die ANC se eie bevrydingstryd.

Zuma het klem gelê op wat hy die sterk Christelike tradisie binne die ANC genoem het. “Die ANC het sy morele visie onder meer van die kerk gekry en ná die 2009-verkiesing sal ons werk om ons vennootskap met gelowige groepe voort te sit.”

Hy het gesê die ANC het die hulp van kerke nodig in die stryd teen armoede, misdaad, ongeletterdheid en om die impak van die vigs-pandemie te versag.

Whoa, stop the wagon Malema

“If Zuma is corrupt, then we want him with all his corruption. We want him with all his weaknesses. If he is uneducated, then we want him as our uneducated president.” (Julius Malema ANCYL president at Cato Manor) Zuma, he said, understood South African economics, which amounted to: “Put a bread on the table. We don’t want sophistication.” (Times)

Should a leader of a country not have formal education and some decent manners????

Thank you Thought Leader for putting a little poem together! Visit the url and get a kick out of it.

Geagte Malema,

Die rand is reeds swak en miljoene is reeds deur ANC lede verduister. Zuma is uiteindelik weer in die hof omdat hy hom skuldig maak aan skelm dinge wat nie in belang is van Suid Afrikaners.

Ek sal graag wil sien dat ons 'n eerbare president vir Suid Afrika kry... soos Mandela was. Iemand wat bietjie skoolgegaan het (en klaargemaak het) en oor belangrike dinge met ander lande se leiers sal kan praat sonder om soos 'n idioot te klink. Iemand wat nie die land in die skande sal steek met 'n gehoerdery en baie (hoeveel weet die vet alleen) vrouens. Ek vind dit steeds aanstootlik dat iemand 'n poligamis kan wees en nie ook in die tronk beland vir dit.

Ek weet jy hou daarvan om mense name te noem, so jy kan my maar Me. Deysel noem... want ek is nie klein genoeg om Minie Muis genoem te word.

Dankie dat jy die afgelope tyd so baie nonsens spuug, ek vind dit heel komies.

Groete

Ek sal nou maar DA stem.

Blame it on apartheid - I have not lost weight this week

The next few days I'm on the "BLAME IT ON APARTHEID" bandwagon. I will be blaming weight gain, sore muscles, the zit in my neck and everything else on apartheid - just like the ANC!

Sounds ridiculous - right? Well, if Carl Niehaus can blame stealing money from people while living the ANC socialite life - then I can blame anything I like on apartheid too.

Send me your best "Blame It On Apartheid" jokes. Nothing is too ridiculous - we are afterall 10 years down the road.

Malema & Phosa - the ANC comedians

Phosa... we have spies in the DA (ie. we are unethical, but it is ok, we are ANC we can do what we want)

Malema... Zille, you are a racist, colonialist and imperialist - nevermind that you lived in this country and grew up here (I think Malema doesn't really know what it means, he just strung a bunch of big words together and added racist for good measure because that is the easiest thing to do)

Jokes straight from the ANC comedians:

After Helen Zille (DA said that Malema is a inkwnekwe)
Phosa: "Phosa said an inkwenkwe was the lowest possible thing that you could call a man in isiXhosa.

"What she says is that he is uncircumcised. What if we say that about her husband, because he is not circumcised.

"Malema is not circumcised, but let us not go there, let's keep it decent. We think the call is more an electioneering stunt," Phosa said.

"She stooped very low in her response, very low. It means that she is not able to take the punches that we do. She is hysterical. As a leader, she went below the bar with her response," he said.

Phosa said the ANC would respond to Zille's remarks in a similar way, "to try to make her aware that if you throw mud, there's a lot of mud around. Anyone can throw mud.""
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090224091158827C721136

• Does Malema lack self-confindence?
• Phosa... "electioneering stunt" from the guy that admitted the ANC spies on the DA and the party that parades Mandela as a poster boy - even though they kicked him off the politics grid a year or 2 ago.
• "It means that she is not able to take the punches that we do." Dude, you just whined about Malema being punched a little on his manly ego... seems like the kettle is trying to boil a little bit of empty!
• "What if we say that about her husband, because he is not circumcised." It really doesn't matter - it doesn't make him any less manly! When will Phosa realise that he should not just open his mouth to utter stupid things???

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090223120627221C451743

Malema: calls Khume Ramulifho a "garden boy"

• One, there is nothing wrong with being a garden boy... at least gardeners earn a honest living (unlike our esteemed ANC goverment officials).
• Sounds like Malema is a bit of a snob, looking down at ordinary people...
• Then Malema also shows he has no balls (on top of being uncircumsized) by not stepping up to the challenge to publicily debate with the DA's youth. Why? Is it because Malema can only open his mouth to spew insults when he doesn't look right at the people he is trying to insult?
• I love reading comments from cowards. ""There is no DA youth. The last time we had a DA youth was when they defected to the ANC. There is no DA youth in South Africa. Malema said those posing as a DA youth body were in fact "the garden boys of Helen Zille"".

The mouse Malema calls the IFP leader Mangosothu Buthelezi "Mickey Mouse"

Also at the rally on Saturday, Malema was reported to have again called IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi "Mickey Mouse" and members of Cope "angryists" who "don't smile". But last night the ANCYL issued a statement denying that Malema had referred to Buthelezi as "Mickey Mouse".

"He instead said KwaZulu- Natal is home of the ANC and not of 'Mickey Mouse' political organisations," said Floyd Shivambu, ANCYL national spokesperson.

• Malema, you are really a petulent little child that loves to name call - aren't you? There is a word for people like you PETTY. (and thank you Khume for saying it for the press to hear)
  

I hurt my toe - and it is apartheid's fault!

I'm so tired of hearing the constant whining of people about apartheid. It has been over for more than 1o years, stop blaming apartheid for your bankruptcy (Carl Niehaus), the fact that you don't live in Sandton, or because you are just plain stupid.

Grow some brains, use it and stop f***ing whining about apartheid. 

ANC spies on DA

So, the ANC yet again stuck their foot in it... now after the departure of Carl Niehaus (a polygamist that conned a lot of people out of money and was the SPOKESPERSON for the ANC), the ANC had to do something stupid again to get some free publicity!

Ok, so now we have moles being planted in the DA by the ANC. Phosa even said that they didn't bug the phones (that means they had thought about it anyways) ... as if I would believe a word from a person that works for a party that plants moles. Just ask the DA what they are up to and stop looking like a bunch of idiots.

Then Phosa also whined about DA members taking ANC member to lunch. "He alleged that the DA also spied on the ruling party, by taking ANC members to lunch to get information from them. The DA has shrugged off the allegations." Now that, to me, sounds a whole lot more upfront than the ANC tactics! 

We have spies in the DA, claims Phosa By Carien Du Plessis

The ANC has admitted to spying on high-level meetings of the DA.

ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa told the Cape Argus on Tuesday that the party had "moles" in the DA who fed the ANC information about the party's election campaign strategies, but he denied that phones had been tapped, as this "would be illegal".

He alleged that the DA also spied on the ruling party, by taking ANC members to lunch to get information from them. The DA has shrugged off the allegations.

Phosa said the ANC had learnt that the DA's campaign strategies were aimed at creating negative publicity about ANC leaders and their personal lives, rather than policy issues.

"We monitor them very closely all the time; there is no policy coming out of it," he said.

Phosa referred specifically to an open letter from DA leader Helen Zille to ANC president Jacob Zuma last week, asking him to step down as the ruling party's presidential candidate because of the corruption charges he is facing.

Read the rest of this article here on IOL.\

UK visits for South Africans just became R900 more expensive

Now we have to pay to go to the UK, a whole R900! That is worth almost 70 pounds that you could have spent on something else.

I'm sorry, but I can only lay the blame in front of our "esteemed/competent" government's door. There is no-one else to blame... and I know I'm right.

I have to take this opportunity to thank the government for making it so easy for skelms to get their hands on SA IDs... for government officials that are corrupt... and most importantly, thank the government for letting skelms, murders, rapists and what not roam the streets of South Africa.

Motorcycle owner sends sms while driving

This Saturday, enroute to Fourways Mall, a motorcycle pulled in behind us. Then the guy started sms-ing. He even passed us while doing this at 80kmph!

Talk about being stupid.

Hope is not enough, it doesn't put bread on the table

I always enjoy when people share their opinions, but... {here goes the reply to this post from D}

It is great and all to hope that South Africa's leaders will one day stand tall like their American counterparts, but lets face it, it is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN if it is the current government. It is a nice little dream to hope that some of "Obama's magic" will rub off on our money-loving-pocket-lining-nepotistic-liars-(you get my drift). The reality is, if they can't learn from people like Mandela and Tutu even, how the hell will they learn from other people living on another continent?

So anyway, hope is not enough. You can't eat hope, sleep under it or buy anything with it. I want to see results. Change. Not hope for it.

About our dear president complaining that his privacy is being invaded:

Hey Mr President, it is me, one of the poor idiots paying your exorbitant salary for sitting on your thumb and regurgitating crap. If you don't want people to talk about your private life, don't do something you should be ashamed of! People aren't interested in people that do no wrong. Unfortunately what you do and say influence the already weak rand - so deal with being in the spotlight. You wanted the job (and money)...

I particularly enjoyed Noeleen's show (yes, I sometimes tune in if there is something interesting) this week with some guy from the ANC spewing some nonsense over the air. I also like that chick with the painted face's expression when she thought the same as me. Gareth Cliff - go boy!

Now my favourite... That guy with legal woes

Zuma, may your trial go well, you get prosecuted for your illegal operations. May you get a jail sentence and get to know Bubba.

Unfortunately the reality is that South Africa's legal system is up to **** and he won't even get a slap on the wrist.

About having more than 1 wife in South Africa:

I don't give a damn that it is ok in some cultures to have more than 1 wife... if you live in South Africa, you fall under South African law. What applies to one applies to all.

Click on this Home Affairs link about marriage in South Africa. I quote: "Persons already married. Bigamy is a punishable offence in South Africa. Such marriages are also null and void in our law." I say, prosecute those with more than 1 wife - else I demand to have R1 000 000 deposited in my account!

What will Obama do... for South Africans?

Ok, here it goes. Nothing. F*all. So why the hell is "Obamania" rampant in South Africa?

On the day Obama got inaugurated as president of the USA, some South Africans went on a jolly little trip celebrating it. Why? Is it because... he is black???? Is it because he is going to save Zimbabwe from Mugabe? Or is it that he will deposit a $1000 into every person's account in the world? I don't understand.

Is it because Obama is black? Yes, I'm asking it. Why did black South Africans make such a big fuss about it... on TV and today a guy at a liquor store. I thought South Africans were supposed to be color blind. In my eyes he is just another human being and was qualified politically and therefore elected as president of the UNITED STATES (not South Africa). Why is it ok to shout black power from the top of their lungs but it is not ok to shout white power (you could land in jail for that)... I think 1 rule for all should suffice.

As I mentioned today some guy tried to talk politics to me in a liquor store - as annoying as that is I wanted to hear just how stupid he is and I was not disappointed. Anyway first he went on about COPE being useless and that they won't ever make a difference in the life of the ANC and then it came... he tried to tell me just how great it is that Obama got elected as president. Obviously by this time I was ready to slap him around for being an idiot, but I indulged his ignorance - then I asked "So, what is Obama going to do for you, a South African?" Mr Idiot then answered that Obama will help Zimbabwe (thanks for telling me what he is going to do for you a South African)... Ok, now, why would Bob Mugabe listen to Obama - especially if he tries to tell him the same thing Mbeki and Kgalema, the AU and other heads of state tried to tell him. Does Mr Idiot think that just because the president of the US is black and has a nice afternoon tea with Bob and asks him to give up "BOB's ZIMBABWE" that Bob will do it??? Now if Obama said the US will invade Zim, like Irak and other countries, I would be impressed... but talking to Bob... ok... yeah BOB IS SENILE.

I know that thousands of South Africans are stupid enough to believe that Obama will line their pockets with some spare cash he has in the White House - since they believed it from the ANC not just once... BUT TWICE. Gotta admire people for believing crap.

Now on the whole ANC glory... you can kiss my ass. The ANC has done F*all for poor South Africans in the last... oh 10 years... so, I think that some South Africans would have noticed. I think that between the DA and COPE we are going to see the ANC losing lots of ground. Eat dust corrupt ANC government.

What have we seen since the ANC came into power: some good things in the beginning. Now it is just annoying to see AA in job adverts - it is time to let go... 10 years was more than enough. Then there was the nice little gravy train for Tony Yengeni. Winnie had a boy killed and got away with it. Zuma is acting like a whore... how many wives does he have anyway... and lets not forget the shower scene oh and the legal proceedings against him. Thank you also for the weak rand! Xenophobia. Should I go on????

Now on multiple wives... isn't it illegal to marry more than 1 person for whites? Then why is it acceptable for blacks? Same country - same law. Prosecute everyone with more than 1 marital partner.

Stop the gravy train

You know what really grinds my beans? Politics.TO be more precise, South African politics. All I wanted for Christmas was a year with no Zuma, no xenophobia, no mudslinging, just peace and quiet.

SA politics is just so pathetic. The ANC is upset about the new COPE party, nobody else is. Suddenly people have to swear their undying love to a party to keep their jobs.

In my opinion, COPE and the DA should make a deal... I'm positive that the elections will see a lot of people voting for these two parties and it will only make sense if they work together. I'm just saying... 2 heads have always been better than 1 - and more votes, well, that could change the leadership for us.

The question is, just how deep are tribal loyalties? Will some people realise that empty promises will never be enough, or will they once again just vote for a party that did good in the past but in more recent years got quite good at riding a leaking gravy train, covering up incompetence and general nepotism?

SA has come a long way, but another change is needed to get this country to where it could be. Unfortunately I doubt that the current government is up for the challenge.

I really sometimes doubt that SA is still the place to be

I read a lot of stuff online. I see what is happening around me and then I wonder, is it really worth it? Staying in SA with its unstable politics... and people.

Just yesterday an isolated event described on an IOL article (that passed under my eyes) yet another racist remark against citizens of South Africa and I realised that forgiveness is not a word that everybody understands. Some people will always carry hate in their hearts and then pass this on to the next generation.

Now I want to see if these two police officers that made themselves guilty of racism will be punished just as harshly as a white person would that does the same thing.

After watching Hotel Rwanda last week... well, imagine the gory images I now have in my head. Being carved by a panga or burnt alive...

I think my biggest fear is that South Africa will have more blood in the soil. It is so unnecessary.

You just can't get away from racism

I quote an article from IOL

'All white dogs in SA will be killed'

The Freedom Front Plus is laying charges with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against two Odendaalsrus police officers for allegedly calling a farmer a "white dog".

In a letter to the SAHRC on Monday, FF Plus spokesperson Pieter Groenewald referred to a recent Bloemfontein newspaper report alleging Constables Mokwena and Mafabatho of the Odendaalsrus police station had called a farmer a "white dog" and said "all white dogs in South Africa will be killed".

"You would surely agree that such actions, especially by members of the police, cannot be tolerated and is definitely hate speech," he said.

It seemed the reference to white people as white dogs was becoming more and more prevalent, especially in the police service.

"It cannot be tolerated and decisive action is required. This hate speech is unconstitutional, and a contravention of section 16 of the Constitution, Act 108 of 1996.

"The Freedom Front Plus therefore lays an official complaint in this regard and requests that you investigate the case speedily," Groenewald said.

In a statement later, Groenewald said the FF Plus also intended to ask Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa to immediately suspend the two constables.

"These actions of police members attest to naked racism and hate speech. Actions such as these incite racial hatred between black and white people which will in future boil over into open conflict if drastic action is not taken."

The farmer concerned had officially laid charges against the two constables last week for illegally pointing a firearm, crimen injuria and illegal trespassing, he said.

The Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA) has also expressed concern over the allegations saying the matter needed to be fully investigated.

"We will follow how the complaint laid by the FF Plus is handled with interest," said CDA spokesperson for safety and security Kevin Southgate.

"Actions where race hate is stoked are unacceptable, especially when coming from people in positions of power," Southgate said. - Sapa

Putting GAME to the test

I bought a camera for my folks on Saturday that was on special at GAME this weekend. After I bought it I went to Pick n Pay... and lo-and-behold... there it was R100 cheaper.

So I phoned GAME and explained it... since they have the find it cheaper in 21 days... and we beat it...

It worked... I gor back the difference in cash. TO top it off the Game one already came with a R100 photo printing voucher!

Hotel Rwanda

I know, this movie has been out for ages, but I only saw it this week. I was really hesitant to rent the DVD and watch it as I don't cope well with violent movies.

Anyway, back to the movie.

Hotel Rwanda is based upon the story of Paul, a Hutu, that saved the lives of +- a 1 000 people by letting them stay in the luxury hotel (owned by Sabena airlines) he managed. He bribed the Hutu militia and rogue extremist Hutus into sparing the people in the hotel many times.

The world basically folded its hands and let the genocide happen. Europeans were evacuated and the UN left little more than a dozen after 10 UN soldiers were killed.

The genocide in Rwanda lasted 3 months in 1994, but an estimated 1 000 000 Tutsis and Hutus were killed during this time. Hutus that didn't want to participate in the genocide were killed or forced to kill neighbours and loved ones.

A favourite weapon of the extremists, a panga... Just how sick are you to get that close to a person to kill them with a "big knife"? Just how sick?

Background info on why this happened:
Rwanda has 2 groups the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Hutu are darker and "look more africa" whereas the Tutsis are lighter with smaller noses. When the Belgians got Rwanda from Germany (after the WW) they put the Tutsis in charge even though they are the minority. Rwanda got their independence from Belgium... and the Hutus took control.

Hatred for the Tutsis festered in the hearts of some Hutus and eventually it burst open like a volcano... and a mass genocide of the "cockroach Tutsis".

The sad thing about this was that once the violence started it spread like gangreen. Neighbours, friends and family were killed... mixed Hutu / Tutsi families broken up.

The Tutsis:
I read that the Tutsis may have been from Somalia, but that they have been in Rwanda so long that they spoke the same language as the Hutus and had the same customs etc too. It is also said that during the genocide the extremists threw the bodies of their victims into the river, hoping that it would carry them back to Somalia.

HOTEL RWANDA made me think of the xenophobic attacks in South Africa last year... unnecessary violence and hatred of other human beings.

May something like this never happen on the African continent again.

Petrol prices, food prices and all that jazz

Sometimes I really wish that we just go back to being cave people that don't need to travel to work, therefore have to have a car, use petrol, take the car for services, etc...

At least the petrol price is coming down soon - which will make a small difference.

I just wish things in Zimbabwe get better soon.

Spare a thought for Zimbabweans

This Christmas I realised just how privileged South Africans are.

Imagine this. You flee from the economic crisis in your country and arrive in South Africa with little more than what you are wearing. You will take any job as long as you could send some money back to family. You buy food but not everything you need - including a blanket. You sleep with the clothes you have, no blanket. You have 1 pair of shoes you got, so you walk around barefoot so as to not ruin the shoes unnecessarily.

Finally you find a job - even though you have a diploma or degree - all you do is make sure that wild animals don't eat crops, but you are thankful and get up every morning to be on time and work on public holidays so you can get overtime pay so you can earn more to support your family in Zimbabwe.

Please spare a thought for Zim's innocent people that Bob kills with his idiocy.

... and let that be a lesson to toyi-toying South Africans.

Meery Xmas

I'll talk to all again after the merriment has died down!