Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

3rd World War Hypothesis

No-one from the latter half of the 19th century could ever have envisioned the wars that would plague the world at the first half of the 20th century. These wars first started with the 1st World War and become known as the "Great War". During the later conflict in 1939 both wars became known as the 2 World Wars. These Wars, these terrifying conflicts that took so many lives, caused untold misery and opened the Pandora's box to many later conflicts was unimaginable and unthinkable......but what of a 3rd World War?
How would the present South Africa under the ANC see this, who would they side with?

When America and Britain helped bring about the end of the "Apartheid era" the belief was that the ANC would side with them. The logic did not calculate, the ANC were supported by the Communists- the ANC were and are COMMUNISTS! What were the powers of the West thinking. They had lost an ally when they helped hand power over to the Terrorists.
As far as I am concerned this was brought about under the guise of "Racism" a well played card by the Russians and the ANC alike.

I believe things happen in cycles, what goes around inevitably comes around. Maybe not quite the same but close as dammit. Case and point the rise of Russia again.....who do the West think the ANC will side with in a war? Definitely not them! Russia is an old ally as Mbeki has made a point with Robert Mugabe, his old friend in arms.

All I can say is the West lost an ally an gained a wolf in sheep's clothing - Well done Mr. Bush snr. you out did your self again. And as for Mr. De klerk, well I am sure he had sleepless nights but we should have gone down fighting and not have ended up like Rhodesia- on the skids. 

Anyway maybe one day the old Terrorists will be helping their old friends and the West- who knows? Still screwing up everything as usual.
 

Thursday, August 21, 2008

THE POLITICS OF SPORT

People generally accept that if there is something that they can get that favours them and this includes giving up their principles and morals they generally don't have a problem with it. Whilst this applies to some people it does not necessarily apply to everyone.

This said and done it is amazing to see the Olympics sport body having given the 2008 Olympics to China. Everyone knows they have one of the world's worst track records when it comes to human rights, and that's just the beginning. Yesterday two old people in their 70's were sent to a "labour re-education camp" because they continuously were seeking police permission to stage a demonstration. 

I find it all ironic that while you can understand that Rogge and his team would give the Olympics to China due to the fact that the Chinese would get things done- they overlooked a few things which in my mind takes away their credibility and at the end of the day make them hypocrites for past actions. In a media statement Rogge stated that the sporting body is only representative of sport and that it does not represent politics well.......

In the 1970's the Olympic body imposed sanctions on South Africa, taking away any chance of our sportsmen and women ever getting a medal- regardless of the "spirit" of sportsmanship which took a back seat. Compared to China, South Africa was nothing in the arena of murder and misery. Back then there was no need for the Olympic body to need or want anything from South Africa, we were unmarketable! 
Have they posed sporting sanctions on Robert Mugabe for an oppressive regime- No! Why not? Technically the government has sanctions placed on it......!

To also have George Bush and the Japanese PM say in a newspaper article that sport and politics should not mix is utter and total hypocrisy. Given that politics knows no friends and ignorance is the drug of fools you would think people would remember or make the right decisions.

But hey, the Olympics are a success, Tibet is all but forgotten once again and money and political influence will walk all over the individual trying to make a difference in the name of common decency. Well done Mr. Rogge, maybe you should give the 2012 Olympics to Myanmar I am sure they could use slave labour to build a stadium.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Float like a butterfly, sting like B.E.E

With South Africa's Black Empowerment  policies there is no hope. Instead of creating jobs for people the ANC is taking away jobs and giving them to individuals who are not qualified for the position. So now what do we have? A whole lot of whites sick to death of everything and leaving the country in droves. What do the ANC do? They hire Algerians, Libyans, Poles ect. etc to work in South Africa. Bit of a waste if you ask me when they could just stop their bullshit. But then again the ANC don't create they destroy, they steal ideas and the best one so far....they shoot themselves in the foot- all to hold onto power.
When the National Party were in power they created a base of rich Afrikaners to maintain the economics of the country, the ANC's less than charismatic, Oliver Tambo studied that and came to the realisation that that was the way to go. 
Now, a few years down the line Mbeki has gone from implementing job opportunities where a certain percentage of staff for business's had to be black, this is  called Affirmative Action, to companies earning more than 250 000 rand per year having to implement the BEE (Black Equity Empowerment) policy and having to give 40% of the company to a black partner- qualified or not and whether they like  it or not in spite of it being racist, or as it is called "positive racism". I am still trying to see what is positive about it
 I think the ANC use the excuse of equal rights just to hold onto the economic powerbase as I explained earlier so that no-one and I mean no-one can take it away from them- checkmate!

So what could have been done? Well, South Africa could have spent a period of time putting up training faclities- decent universities, hired decent lecturers not dropped the level or standard of schools- you fail, too bad, and created training programs for blue-collar workers, slowly introducing them into the work market. Instead of taxing the whites to death they could have created an overall tax- now S.A. sits with the same problem as Egypt, most people are spending money in the informal sector but no-one is paying tax. Result- false economy. 
Lets not forget the Nelson Mandela bridge in Johannesburg which cost 80 million rand to build- when there was already a bridge there!!!! Very, very clever!  That money could have created more desperately needed jobs, but hey I dont know what I am talking about after all we need the Nelson Mandela bridge, the Nelson Mandela hospital, the Nelson Mandela prison and lets not forget the Nelson Mandela square.........hmmmm, I am sure they are going to change the name of the country to the only hero the ANC ever had, how about Mandelaland?

What of the Future for South Africans abroad?

No-one can really tell what will happen in the future, whether it be 2 years, 2 decades or 2 generations. As far as it goes with South Africans living overseas the chances are greater that they will be assimilated into the society of their choosing.
Case and study is a group of Boer soldiers that were captured by the British during the Second Boer War. Like most countries during wartime P.O.W's are removed sometimes as far from the battlefield as possible, in this case the South African soldiers were shipped to Argentina where, after the war they could not return, or at least the British did not give a damn and just left them there. This all happened before the Treaty of Versailles or before any boundaries were drawn up as to conduct in war.
The families of these soldiers still live in Argentina, they speak Spanish and still to this day carry Afrikaans names, they are very religious and still speak a type of Afrikaans that has become bastardised over time, yet the one thing that they all can sing and are taught is .......Sarie Marais, a song sung by the Boers during the Boer War.

Whilst air travel makes it easier to get around the question here is are we all aware what will become of us, do we know who we are and are we willing to give up our South African roots for another cultures? This is a question I ask my self a lot- I do not have the answer but I hope that one day I will.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Protest!

William Shakespeare once wrote, the pen is mightier than the sword. In the case of South Africa this rings true. For 4 decades South Africa was at war, at home and internationally. Where the Old South African government waged bush war, members of the ANC were at the time exiled or imprisoned. For those who were in exile their benefactors were none other than the governments of the day, Sweden, Norway,  Cuba, various African countries and primarily Russia, who, at the time, bent on world domination funded a large portion of the ANC's financial needs and provided weapons which were turned on civilians and even the black population at large with bombing campaigns in the cities. Due to support from Russia and the ANC"S allies they created an international campaign which allowed themselves to be exposed as the fighters of justice, peace and equal rights. This said the ANC, a mainly communist body played the racist card to meet their end, unfortunately for the South African government at this time, it was the perfect recipe for disaster as the world became more aware of the term"apartheid" which was originally coined by Hendrik Verwoerd.
Due to this sympathy was in the ANC's favour whilst the old South African regime waged war on the fronts, the ANC waged war in the halls of the U.N. and in countries sympathetic to their cause. The ANC branches used every means possible to meet their ends including using photos of blacks sleeping in parks and then declaring to the world that the individual in the shot had indeed been killed by the police. Disinformation had found a new ally.

Eventually the ANC won out and the country was forced to take steps to allow the ANC to take power. However, what was thought to be a new beginning for all has escalated into absolute chaos. Murder is the order of the day, cities lie in ruin, becoming squatter camps, nothing is maintained and what used to be an orderly society and an almost 1st world country has descended into a dustbowl of litter, dirt, shanty towns and a society falling apart at the seams.

Now, the world suffers from Apartheid fatigue, no-one cares about the little old woman who is raped, stabbed has boiling water thrown over her and eventually and probably mercifully she is put out of her misery with a bullet to the head- her crime..........she is white. A lie? No, it happened and has happened to an old woman I knew and I have heard stories of other places where this has also occurred.

Where are the ANC now when they are suppose to protect and support everyone no matter what colour you are???
 Busy grooming their future leader, a convicted felon who is doing his best to dissolve any group who opposes his rise to stardom. 
The ANC have learnt well from their Russian masters,  yes, the pen is mightier than the sword. I think even Shakespeare would have a deep admiration for the ploys of the present government.