R.I.P

Jacob Mugabe??????

More important than the nation?????

Judiciary worth S**** in eyes of gov & nation, police too corrupt to carry out it's instructions anyway, and the fight is on for those comrades who have been left out in the cold with no taste of the GRAVY.

Let gov & big business spend the country flat, but use age old instruments to subjugate the ordinary citizen into permanent bankruptcy to pay for their big spend. Civil servants get paid completely out of proportion, for doing nothing - no forward planning, no vision, no preparation, no maintenance. Only financial institutions and gov have never felt the brunt of an empty tum!

Whose nxt for President - Judas Mamela?
Indeed RIP rsa.

Indeed, RIP Irene Grootboom. Her plight and undignified end is surely and indictment on governments both past and present.
One can’t help be amazed at the hysterical, steamroller approach by the ANC in endeavouring to fast track Mr. Zuma into the hot seat at the Union Buildings.
I wonder, did those ANC heavyweights in their support of brother Jacob in court the other day, apply for a days leave? Surely the lines are not that blurred between government official business and ANC support duties.

Whether we like it or not Zumageddon is coming - he has the support of the majority of the ANC (not the majority of South Africans) and the ANC will not lose power in the foreseeable future.

However few if any journalists have taken up the cudgel that was offered by Madiba to clobber Zuma when Nelson Mandela paid a surprise visit to a hospice near Alexandra in Johannesburg on Monday. Mandela told the children how important education was.

"Today, no person who is not well educated can lead the country. So you must attach importance to education because that's the only way you can be accepted as a leader."

Zuma most certainly is not well educated and so, according to the continent's most respected leader,he can not be accepted as a leader. Which, of course, means he should not be leader of the ANC let alone President of our country.

I have to admit that Zuma is not one of my favourate menus but he has rights just like all of us do so you are very wrong Richard.

The honest truth about the South Africa we are living in is a lack of credible leaders.I hoped that Motlanthe would rise above the challenge and be a man to lead south Africa but as the saying goes "birds of the same feather fly together.He seems to be too weak or too afraid of losing the deputy presidency if he doesn't come strong on the attack of the so called Anti-revolution institutions.

Its clear that the ANC lacks the kind of leaders that are needed to take South Africa forward but it will be wrong to accuse people who are going to vote it to the Presidency of idiocy.But let's hang on there,surely we wont go down with them,the cracks are already showing so at the end justice will prevail,and we will say Long Live South Africa.

Leaders are born,they do not have to be educated.A wise leader will always seek the company of the elite to run the country effiency.

People will like this person because of what he is,possesing leadrship characteristics.It is very difficult to desert the people who always admire and appreciate the way you handle their problems.

Running into Union Building does not mean that you will be working alone.You pick up people whom you think will help you accomplish the goals of helping the nation,but only to find that you will be surrounded by the most culprit in the country.

The point is, we should not judge people,say they not educated and not fit to be presidents.

The country's real priorities ANC style are self first, party second and if there is time left we can look at what we can do for the poor etc. Esentially we are a 1 party state, the opposition has no voice and nor do the public. The majority of the educated population providing that you are not a thief or a corrupt politician want the scorpions to remain but no matter what the public outcry they will be dibanded.
Zuma's profile is been elevated by the ANC executive to harness more votes because they know that the present government has been exposed as a bunch of corrupt, selfish and incompetent self serving rogues.
Through Zuma, Vavi and Malema they are targeting a section of the population that they know will carry them in the next elections. Even the blind can see that.

Thank you for an interesting article highlighting what I, a foreigner, see as 'two solitudes'. The DA and other like-minded souls seeing issues as 'right or wrong', with wrong being punished; and the ANC and associates, seeing 'persecution, humiliation and embarrassment'. It is difficult to see how these two views can be reconciled into policies and leadership which will move South AFrica forward, so that the poor are cared for and the homeless sheltered with dignity. Concerning Zimbabwe where I now live:"The international community will be guilty of the same offence if it disregards the opinion of Zimbabweans and what they are willing to live with.", the most common and vocal comment I hear these days is 'who does the MDC (of various stripes) think they are? No one is consulting ordinary Zimbabweans to see what THEY want out of these talks; more politicos of the ANC type feathering their nests, is the talk from the street. Please do NOT blame this, once again, on 'the international community', this appears to be ANC helping its brother clones.