The sound and the fury

The silence from the womens league on this and other issues is deafening. However considering how they stabbed Thabo in the back last year hardly surprising. It seems that in order to pursue their retributionist policies, place at the trough and vain hopes of a majority in the forthcoming elections, most in the ANC are willing to sacrifice their morals. in order to continue to deceive the largely uneducated electorate they will continue to bring on the song n dance and Jimmy Swaggart type of campaigning.

Ladies and gentlemen - it's time for change.

I think your dartboard image of Mr Malema is in extremely poor taste and it incites 'violence as innocent fun' in a society that is already breaking all records when it comes to violence.

It is even more distasteful, given that it serves to detract from the very important subject matter of the pervasive violence of rape and gender politics covered in your article.

You have crossed the fine line of tackling the issue and personalising/individualising the problem. If we focus our attention only on Mr Malema's utterings, we neglect the wider societal context that has shaped him. It makes us look away from ourselves and our own complicity in the shape this country is taking.

Isn't there another, less violent way to focus and channel our anger. I refuse to become part of an unthinking mob who thinks its fun to 'throw darts' at another human being - even if I disagree with his/her utterings. How about dialogue? How about asking us to engage him on your pages? For heaven's sake, please go and read up on some peace journalism!

Great article.
Sex, death and taxes will never go away BUT the manner in which leaders and ordinary people of South Africa speak of women shows that they, men in particular, do not respect other people. They speak of women like their mothers, sisters, daughters and grandmothers.
Shame on those who speak of women and all people in such a manner ("very ripe").
These narcissists (from the guy who liked himself so much the gods turned him into a flower, Narcissus) have never thought of being in someone else's shoes.
I wonder how they would react if they were raped?
Would they cover it up from the papers? Would
Would they be brave enough to face the man who raped them across a court room?
To qoute the present Dalai Lama (not my faith just cool words):
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

Judging by the comments of the people below it would seem that the average person in SA has extremely low morals, with them not being in line average man in the world. It proves again why Malema and Zuma have so many sheep behind them.

To all those chauvinists, misogynists, women abusers and simple basic pigs out there who think that their male animal 'instinct' is a natural right: You don't deserve to be called people. South Africa would be much better off without you (as would the whole world). Do you not understand that to be a so-called adult means actually learning about life, about yourself, about others, and about respect, morals, ethics, decency and consideration? And to those women who condone 'men' such as this: the same applies to you. SA will always be a backward fourth-rate nation until its individual citizens grow up and learn how to be conscious people.

South Africa, the beautiful. We need a total makeover in our thought process. Yes, it's later than we think. For a minute, in this rigmarole, replace "the woman" with a black person and "the man" with somebody white. Thrown into a cage full of hungry lions? Your teeth plucked out for eating maize in the farm you toil in? The language bears such similarities. THIS IS NO LONGER FUNNY!!

What horrifies me most, is who invites this clown to speak or goes to listen to his speeches.
Theo Ramlall

Rape still presents itself as one of RSA's worst heinous crimes, according to the stats!

BUT, society does nothing about the norms it accepts to live with. The huge majority of the 'struggle' folk, felt it a duty to help each other out even to passing casual sexual conduct, and it became a customary acceptable norm then.
It has now become a norm, for the younger folk, to express themselves quite freely in group sex, at every occasion they can. And as with all the younger generations, tomorrow will never come, so they get down low and the overwhelming demonstration of 'especially' the women, is to act like the proverbial "camp followers - nomadic chattels serving their warriors faithfully, for a fee of course". See the rabid zuma supporters!
The guys are even content to plough their way through the days and nights in a shared river of rancid seed in these communal extended family troughs, and so can no longer differentiate between rape and consensual responsibilty - deriving affirmation in the participation of group orgies.
The African Leaders truly have a long hard road to take, in order to bring their societies back to a more acceptable and nurturing normality!

We don't need morals. We need people to do their jobs. And that's what's NOT going to happen while the Malema/Zuma jockeying for power (and then - watch - for ABSOLUTE power) is going on.
When politicians say "morals" or "patriotism" smell a rat!

Don't look to politicians for moral leadership - they will use it and abuse it as the occasion demands.

Don't look to any Women's Movements or Women in Power (Naledi, Nomvete, Frene, Baleka, Nosiviwe, Nkosazana, etc you know who you are) for the faintest little peep of guidance. They're too busy shopping, travelling, acquiring BEE shares and wearing bling to have time for such side-issues.

They know too well that to say: "Julius, you're a disgrace" would promptly end the gravy train for them.

The word had started to acquire associations of immorality by 1637[1] and was used in the late 17th century with the meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations."[citation needed] This was by extension from the primary meaning of "carefree": implying "uninhibited by moral constraints." A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer and a gay house a brothel.

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