SA will crack down on rioters, warns Zuma

As always, when people's fustrations reach boiling point with corrupt and incompetent government officials and take matters into own hands. The knee jerk reaction of the gov is to promise harsh punishment.
They should be rather looking at why these people have rioted.
If a mayor has lost the faith of the people whom he is supposed to reprsent to such an extend that he has to be escorted by police in a armoured merc, then he should do the honourabel thing and resign. But a ANC official having honor!!!! what a laugh.
He should rather get into his bling merc and drive off into the sunset.

While "service delivery" protests mount, Max du Preez observes, we hear that senior ANC figures refuse to stay in the housing provided for them, and instead rent homes worth more than R30 000 a month - again, using taxpayers' money. Sensitive, né?

Start delivering to the promises,otherwise it will get worse.

While "service delivery" protests mount, Max du Preez observes, we hear that senior ANC figures refuse to stay in the housing provided for them, and instead rent homes worth more than R30 000 a month - again, using taxpayers' money. Sensitive, né?
I'm glad this guy Siphiwo nguSiphiwo can finally see the light coming at the end of the tunnel. But unfortunatelly it's a train coming. He and others must be very carefull. I said this guy's views and opinions are driven by false, ill-informed and confused ideologcal bias about ANC (and no-matter what!!!, and no realism and rationality . We all grew up and paid a heavy price fighting in the frontline in the ANC. But when we started seeing this train going in a wrong direction and could not be redeemed, we left to new hopes to defend democracy and the honest voice of liberty. You know what, there is a new NGO for sextually abused women and children. It provides breakfast and raises taxi-fares for raped and abused women. Bye!!!

While "service delivery" protests mount, we hear that senior ANC figures refuse to stay in the housing provided for them, and instead rent homes worth more than R30 000 a month - again, using taxpayers' money. Sensitive, né?
I'm glad this guy Siphiwo nguSiphiwo can finally see the light coming at the end of the tunnel. But unfortunatelly it's a train coming. He and others must be very carefull. I said this guy's views and opinions are driven by false, ill-informed and confused ideologcal bias about ANC (and no-matter what!!!, and no realism and rationality . We all grew up and paid a heavy price fighting in the frontline in the ANC. But when we started seeing this train going in a wrong direction and could not be redeemed, we left to new hopes to defend democracy and the honest voice of liberty. You know what, there is a new NGO for sextually abused women and children. It provides breakfast and raises taxi-fares for raped and abused women. Bye!!!

I dont know whether this is a joke or what, as our service delivery is better than Zimbabwe, come on please lets not get to those standards. Its now said,"Zimbabwe has been chosen to host this year's World Conference of Mayors, officials said Friday. World Conference on Mayors (WCM) official, Oscar Webb, said the meeting would be held either in December or January next year in Zimbabwe, and draw around 2,200 Mayors from around the world.

"I am working on the modalities of bringing the Mayors to Zimbabwe. For starters, I am definitely bringing a group of at least 50 Mayors in October to the Sanganai Travel Exposition and e ventually come for the conference in December 2009 or January next year," Webb, who is the WCM's international ambass ador, said.

The WCM official, who is a US citizen, was appointed honorary Zimbabwean tourism ambassador to the United States.

Zimbabwe is trying to re-build its tourism image, which was badly damaged by years of political instability.

It has engaged high profile world personalities to help woo back tourists."

What happened to the cholera, broken down sewarage system, broken down infrastructure or the lack of it. Lets work and built our Limpopo Province and clean out the foreigners who have broken don our systems because they dont know how to use a simple toilet.

Is it just me, or is Themba Ndou littering every comments page with his comments about clearing out foreigners, which is more than just bordering on hate speech?
Themba - apart from profiling people based on their face and head shape and then clearing them out - do you not think that the govt should do more on border control, stamp out corruption at border posts etc rather than let you the angry citizen stir up hatred?

"Zuma told businessmen late on Thursday"... You would think that he would go on television and speak to the nation. Imagine Barack Obama hiding in his bunker because a little bit of social unrest has broken out. EVEN THEN he would appear on the television and speak to the nation. Chance LOST! Too late to speak now. He should have been on the radio and television immediately. Acknowledge the problem. THE REAL PROBLEM and tell people what you have done about it and what you will be doing in the near future. Everyone knows he's only had the post for a short while and it's not fair to point a finger at him for not delivering what the ANC promised all these years, BUT we have public violence here! You learn most about leaders in times of crisis and JZ just flunked test one. What a pity.