How Robben Island was robbed

Just another sad case of corruption, affirmative action and jobs for pals which we tax payers have to foot the bill for with all the rest of the crap the ANC are dishing out these days. Long live BEE hooray for Zuma may God help us all.

Theft, corruption with no conscience, the hallmarks of our so-called rainbow nation. O yes, and the few rich ones get richer and the growing number of poor ones get poorer. And the best the ANC seem to come up with to "remedy" the situation is to make a PR designed visit to a camp of poor people and blah, blah, blah about it from the comforts of their own positions of undeserved wealth.

This is so typical of the nature of the so called people put into positions of power - they bleed coffers dry for their own greed - and the very icon they were put in power to manage was not regarded at any one moment to be the largest part of the struggle that got them to where they would lead better lives. The broad disregard for anything and anyone in the name of personal greed and power. So the corruption goes on. Moan moan - make an example of the bastards.

Most of what is said in the article may be proved to be true in a formal forum. The same may be said for most of the daily dose of similar stories dominating our democracy the past ten years of restructuring the corrupt and evil system of apartheid which lacked all morality and decency. Some of us entrusted to do the restructuring unfortunately succumbed to laziness opted for the saying 'why reinvent the wheel' to the absolute liking of the apartheid administrators and beneficiaries. These lazy and corrupt 'donkeys' who are mainly political appointees are not however unique to RSA. The UK, USA and others abound. Checkout the BAe System and other American corruption scandals. To read the comments from the two compatriots does not help. South Africa present remain the best thing that could have happened to the world. We are not only the best but better then the rest too. It is for this reason that you read all these bad stories which are actually good stories for our young democracy. Please react and comment but let us all move from the same platform. South Africa First and Foremost.

Typical ANC leadership , "give them a finger and they take the whole arm"

Maybe they should re-open part the prison, they the management can "book" themselves into their own cells. Then when tourists arrive they can be given a special tour showing what the leadership of this country is capable of.

Put the guilty on public display and ridicule... maybe then the oversea's foreign governments will wake up to the prolifiration of corruption that is drowning this country.

This is extraordinary (though perhaps not in the light of all the other looting that we hear about in the news). Not least of the shocking facts is Pallo Jordan's suggestion that the looters, liars and incompetents not be disciplined but allowed instead to resign quietly. Sure, we know that government criminals generally escape the consequences of their behaviour; however, it is perhaps more critical that, once again, the ANC has tried to evade accountability to the tax-paying SA public. Just what is it that drives ANC and government officials inevitably to be crooks or supporters of criminality?

Gross mismanagement, incompetence, fraud and outright theft

Amazing most headlines in South Africa starts with similar words. They probably have a template and just change the subject.
Gross mismanagement, incompetence, fraud and outright theft - Government
Gross mismanagement, incompetence, fraud and outright theft - Fuel
Gross mismanagement, incompetence, fraud and outright theft - Jobs
Gross mismanagement, incompetence, fraud and outright theft - Sport

Can I apply for a job as a journalist. Stories will be easy to cover and will be pretty accurate too.

I would like to know why did it take so long for corruption on such a large scale to be actioned by government. The Minister should have taken action long, being sensetive to fellow comrades etc must automatically dissolve when they betray and manipulate the current South Africa that many bled, suffered and died for. Mr Grootboom needs to call a spade a spade.

Well, the affirmative-actioned people in charge, like all "strugglistas", didn't struggle in order to be poor, remember?

As I perused the comments by what appeared to be mostly white South Africans, I was struck by the "woe is us" mentality. Also, they seem to be saying that only representatives of the ANC are corrupt in South Africa. I'll bet they weren't so sad that the thieves were of a certain hue during the reign of the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Oops, I'm sorry - they're still in charge. I forgot.

Gary Nelson USA
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Gary Nelson USA said:

"As I perused the comments by what appeared to be mostly white South Africans, I was struck by the "woe is us" mentality. Also, they seem to be saying that only representatives of the ANC are corrupt in South Africa. I'll bet they weren't so sad that the thieves were of a certain hue during the reign of the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Oops, I'm sorry - they're still in charge. I forgot."

Well well, yet another armchair expert! Say, why don't you move to South Africa and go and get a taste of the ANC for yourself? I'll bet that, like all bleeding heart liberal idiots before, you too will sing a different song once you are exposed to gross incompetence and record level crime at the hands of the beloved ANC! Until then, why don't you just keep your uninformed idiotic comments to yourself, ok? There is NO comparison between the Apartheid government, who actually did a GOOD job, and the ANC circus. More and more black South Africans are saying they were better off under the previous government. Why is that, do you think? Why would blacks, who 'suffered' under a "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" prefer that to the current day ANC?
Why did South Africa go from average levels of crime, to holding the top spots on the crime ladder IN THE WORLD in just 10 short years?
You have got to peel those liberal boo-ha eyeflaps off and ask the right questions if you want the truth.