2011 - By News 24

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF SOUTH AFRICA IN 2011 AS DEPICTED BY NEWS 24

ANCYL Julius Malema was suspended for five years, meaning he must step down as president of the ANC's youth wing, a party disciplinary committee ruled. The charges against him referred to calling for regime change in neighbouring Botswana, unfavourably comparing president Jacob Zuma to his predecessor Thabo Mbeki and storming into a meeting of top ANC officials.

Andries Tatane was killed allegedly by a group of policemen during a protest in Ficksburg, Bloemfontein. He had challenged the officers to spray him with a water cannon during the protest march. Six public order policemen have been charged in connection with the death of Tatane.

 

 

National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele was suspended pending the outcome of an investigation into "unlawful" police lease agreements. This came after the Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found that Cele's actions involving the procurement of two building leases for new police headquarters, valued at R1.6bn, were unlawful and amounted to maladministration.

 

 

Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde was axed after the probe of the controversial building lease. Her decision to allow two controversial building leases valued at R1.6bn to go ahead, despite tender procedures not being followed and legal advice to the contrary, amounted to maladministration, according to a finding by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela.

 

 

Sheryl Cwele, the wife of the state security minister, and her Nigerian co-accused Frank Nabolisa were sentenced to 12 years for drug dealing by the Pietermaritzburg High Court. They had pleaded not guilty of dealing or conspiring to deal in drugs, procuring a woman, Charmaine Moss, to collect drugs in Turkey, and procuring another woman, Tessa Beetge, to smuggle cocaine from South America.

 

 

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Parliament, Cape Town, in protest of the passing of the Information Bill.

 

 

The Protection of Information Bil was passed and it could see whistle blowers and journalists who publish "classified" information jailed for up to 25 years.

 

A South African woman was executed in China by lethal injection for drug smuggling after rejecting last-minute pleas for clemency. Linden, 35, was convicted of trying to sneak three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of methamphetamine into the country in her luggage through the southern city of Guangzhou in 2008.

 

 

Hundreds of people were left homeless, when a tornado tore through the Duduza township near Nigel, east of Johannesburg. Several people were also injured.

 

The 17th United Nations Conference of Parties (Cop17) was held in Durban. The conference focused on efforts to move toward a future agreement to legally bind all nations to emissions targets, including China and the United States.

 

 

Protesters gathered outside the JSE in Johannesburg to march against alleged corporate greed. The protests began in Canada and spread to cities across the US, Asia, South Africa and Europe.

 

 

23-year-old Nolubabalo "Babsi" Nobanda, from Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, was caught by Thai authorities for trying to smuggle 1,5 kg of cocaine matted in her dreadlocked hair. She is set to appear in court in three months' time.

 

 

Democratic Alliance member Lindiwe Mazibuko was elected as the leader of the DA group in South African Parliament. At 31, she is the country's fourth youngest parliamentarian.

 

 

Supporters of the Dalai Lama protested outside Parliament in Cape Town, to push for a visa to be granted to the spiritual leader. The visa was never approved and the Dalai Lama couldn't visit the country to celebrate Archbishop Tutu's birthday.

 

 

Prince Albert II of Monaco married Charlene Whittstock from South Africa

 

Table Mountain was provisionally named a New 7 Wonder of Nature following a three-year global race to choose the world's seven most wonderful natural sites.

IF THIS IS HOW NEWS 24 PORTRAYS US TO THE WORLD - WE AS SOUTH AFRICAN'S ARE DOOMED!!

 

http://www.news24.com/Multimedia/South-Africa/SA-news-highlights-of-2011-20111221

2012

Never in our lifetime has the future been in a more uncertain state.

Obviously, neither Chantell Ilbury nor I experienced the horrors of the two world wars of the last century. So the phrase that change has become more extreme is simply not valid. However, the potential for major upsets is huge; and it is against that backdrop that we offer our list of events, trends or issues that could make headlines in 2012:
1) Red Flags Rising
In terms of the global economy, we have upped the probability on the “forked Lightning” scenario of a double dip, where the second crash is even bigger than the one of 2008, to 20% (from 10).

The reason is that one of the flags for this scenario has always been a sovereign default of note. Italy and Spain are candidates, the crucial thing to watch being the interest rate on their 10 year bonds. If it jumps above 7% for a prolonged time, the servicing of the bonds becomes problematic given the challenge of reducing the overall deficit.

The hike in interest payments will overshadow the cuts in government expenditure affected elsewhere to improve solvency. The deficit will thereby worsen creating a vicious circle of even higher interest rates. Greece has already entered this downward spiral.

In regard to South Africa, we have raised the probability on the “Failed State” scenario from 10 to 15% following the passing of the Secrecy Bill. While the main flag for the scenario remains the level of violence which is certainly nowhere near what is happening in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq, a subsidiary flag was the gagging of the press.

The latter could cause a massive leap in corruption as there will no longer be the counterbalancing fear of exposure. Critical factors to watch now will be the scope of topics defined as secret and the magnitude of punishment meted out to journalists found guilty of breaking the law.

Both scenarios are still outsiders, but have become more heavily tipped to challenge the favourites.
2) Dances with Wolves
The recent climate change conference in Durban has only revealed the deep divisions that still exist between nations on how to handle the issues. The upshot was to kick the can into convocation in two years time.

Accordingly we attach a 90% probability to one scenario “Dances with Wolves” in which the super-emitters like China and America carry on their dirty dancing act regardless. Alas, “Strictly Ballroom” – a tight agreement forcing nations to waltz together towards clearly set reductions in carbon emissions – is given a wild card probability of 10%
3) Fragile China
Last year we showcased “Ultraviolet”, a scenario where advanced economies were caught in a U-shaped trap of lacklustre growth while emerging economies were enjoying a V-shaped recovery, as our favourite to win the race over the next five years.

We have now switched back to “Hard Times” for everybody, the flag being China’s future GDP growth rate. We are less convinced that China can contain or exceed 8% per annum for two reasons: exports are 38% of China’s GDP and exporting into a flat Europe is taking its toll; and there are two indications of an imminent bursting of the property bubble which could lead to defaults on loans provided to municipalities by Chinese banks. If China dips below 5% economic growth, all the countries which supply resources to China will feel the heat too. We are now 60:40 on China having a soft or hard landing versus a continuing boom.
4) American Civil war (Part 2)
Relations between Democrats and Republicans have taken to an all-time low, just when co-operation between the two parties is essential to get America’s finances back in order. The focus has been on Europe; but it could easily switch to America if inflation picks up unexpectedly and interest rates rise.

Nevertheless, its economy is in better shape; and it is a unitary state capable of fixing things in a way that Europe – without establishing closer fiscal ties between its members – cannot do. It remains to be seen whether the presidential election will degenerate into an all-out war between the candidates.
Given the widening gap between the rich and the middle class and the poor caused by the recession; social unrest cannot be rules out. Meanwhile, it is unlikely during an election year that any meaningful solution will be found to the escalatory cost of government health and welfare programmes.

Democracy and austerity are uneasy bedfellows. But if anyone can find a way through, the Americans can. Never count them out.
5) Syrian Showdown / Russian Spring
2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring which toppled regimes in some countries and continues to be a revolutionary influence in others.

The jury is still out on whether genuine democracy and a better life for all will result from what has happened so far. The situation in Syria with its ties to Iran and its proximity to Israel could have far more complex and explosive repercussions.

The surprise is that the Russians seem to have caught the bug too with all kinds of implications for the nation possessing the second biggest nuclear armoury on Earth. Rightly, Time magazine has named the protester as its person of the year.
6) The Age of Intelligence
We have through the Age of Industrialisation and more recently through the Age of Knowledge, and currently stand at the dawn of the Age of Intelligence.

With all the tools and machinery of the first era and all the information at our fingertips from the second era, we now face challenges of much higher complexity demanding a huge leap in the quality education, skills, creativity, and all-round intelligence. Nations that understand this will do better than nations which remain blissfully ignorant.

Companies that apply their intelligence to engaging new producers and services which offer value for money in the “Hard Times” scenario will continue to grow and flourish. Unintelligent companies will go to the wall. Individuals who demonstrate versatility of skills and flexibility of mind will make a good living. Those that fail to adapt will limit their chances.
7) The Dutch Disease
Last year we talked about more smacks from Mother Nature. Sure enough, she duly delivered those smacks in Japan, New Zealand and several other countries.

This year is the risk that deadly strain of bird flu – a genetic mutation of H5N1 into a highly infectious influenza transmittable through coughing and sneezing – could escape from the laboratory that created it in Rotterdam. H5N1 kills 60 percent of the people it has infected.

The knowledge of how to manufacture the new strain could also be leaked to terrorist groups. With seven billion inhabitants on this planet, with the concentration of a large portion in megacities and increased mobility offered by travel by air, sea, rail or road, the danger of a global epidemic always lurks in the background.
8) The Year of the Bull
Our mainframe scenarios for South Africa are “Premier League” to which we assign a 50% probability and “Second Division” which we give a 35% probability.

If you take into account the 15% probability for “failed state”, we are now at a 50:50 ratio between good and bad scenarios. In other words, we are at a second tipping point, the first one being in the early 1990s when we could have tipped into civil war. Fortunately, Codesa 1 and 2 produced a new constitution and a free and fair election in 1994.

The real issue at the current tipping point is no longer political freedom but economic freedom. South Africa still has a highly exclusive, lopsided economy plagued by an unacceptably high unemployment rate.

At the same time, 2012 is a year of note for the ANC starting with centenary celebrations through a debate on national economic strategy and ending up with a leadership contest. Will the young, radical bulls in the kraal push through their nationalisation and land expropriation agenda: or will the older, more experienced bulls prevail?

We would prefer 2012 to have another forum for creating a new economic blueprint: a Codesa 3 involving all the major economic actors. Only a joint approach will succeed.

Otherwise, it could be all bull.
http://www.news24.com/Columnists/ClemSunter/Breaking-futures-2012-20120103

Is necklacing returning to South Africa?

Earlier this year, South African townships were rocked by incidents of necklacing - mob-justice punishment in which tyres are forced over victims' shoulders and set alight. Is this notorious form of killing from the 1980s in danger of making a comeback?

Angelina Maholwana, 74, felt that justice was being done as she watched two young men burn to death.

Tyres had been forced over their shoulders, doused in petrol and set alight.



She had just identified Mabhutana Siwisa, 19, and Mloza Gqomfa, 20, as the men who had broken into her home, killed her son, tried to sexually assault her and stolen their belongings.

It was the fourth incident of necklacing in one month, in New Brighton township, in the industrial city of Port Elizabeth.

The practice dates back to the 1980s, when it became the punishment of choice among supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) for alleged collaborators with the apartheid regime - though the ANC leadership said it did not condone it.

It was also used against common criminals.

But necklacing appeared to die away in 1987. There had only been one recorded case in more than a decade - until June this year.

Beating and Stoning

The Port Elizabeth incidents - and a number of others elsewhere in the Eastern Cape Province in June and July - have raised fears that necklacing is returning as the most extreme form of a rising tide of vigilante justice.

Last year's police statistics show that of the 46 killings committed on an average day in South Africa, 5% are a result of vigilantism. Beating and stoning are two of the most common ways the killings are carried out.

Many people in poor communities like New Brighton township have lost faith in the police and see vigilantism as the best way of keeping the streets safe.

"Mob justice is not right but it has its place in our society," says Scelo Lucas, 28.

"It does reduce crime. We have seen a decrease in the crime here. People are scared because they know the community will rise up against them."

Some do worry, however, about the risk of the innocent being punished for crimes they did not commit.

"Mob justice is wrong because sometimes the wrong people get punished," says 19-year-old Siyasamkela Solani. "In the heat of the moment, there is a lot of room for mistaken identity."

Tied Up
 
The government has warned that those who take part in lynchings may be tried for murder and the police have embarked on a campaign to persuade communities to give it up.

Since July, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has visited the Eastern Cape twice. There are also plans to take the campaign to other parts of the country, amid fears that necklacing could spread to other provinces.

In practice, however, communities tend to close ranks and protect each other when police investigate, so prosecutions are rare.

Ms Maholwana told the BBC that, in her view, the two men who killed her son got what they deserved.

"They killed my David like they were killing an animal," she says.

"They broke into our home and tied me and my son up and then put us in separate rooms. My feet were tied together so tight that they got swollen," she says.

In an ordeal that lasted some four hours, her son was stabbed in the neck and strangled with a power cord. After the robbers had left, she found him lying lifeless in a pool of blood.

The next day, the alleged perpetrators - thought to have been behind a string of house robberies - were brought by a crowd to her house. One was wearing her son's clothes.

After she had identified them, the mob beat them with sticks, pelted them with stones, forced on the tyres and set fire to them.

The more they tried to escape the angrier and more violent the crowd became, Ms Maholwana says.

"I know that killing these boys won't bring back my son but I sleep better now, knowing those boys will never hurt anyone else again."

History of necklacing

• 1984 -1987: About 672 people were burnt, half of them necklaced
• March 1985 : Thamsanqa Kinini is killed in the first widely reported case of necklacing, which occurs in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province
• July 1985: The first female victim, Maki Skhosana, is killed in Gauteng
• 2008 - A Mozambican national is necklaced as a wave of xenophobic violence sweeps the country
• June 2011 - More than seven people are necklaced in the Eastern Cape

Source: Police; South African Institution of Race Relations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14914526

Physical Geographical Separation, and not Segregation

Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877–1947) was possibly America’s most controversial politician to ever be elected to high office, including the governorship and senate of the state of Mississippi.

An avowed Southern nationalist, Bilbo was even a member of the Ku Klux Klan in his youth, although he left that organisation before he was elected to office.

Although a firm defender of Southern state’s rights and segregation, he was unusual in that he was one of the few who realised that racial segregation provided no answer to racial issues, and invoked considerable opposition from his fellow Southerners because of his demand that physical geographical separation, and not segregation, was the only way to preserve America and Western Civilization.

This book, written while Bilbo was awaiting a ruling by the US Senate designed to strip him of his senate seat, summed up his core beliefs about race, civilization and what he called the only solution to racial conflict: separate geographical states. It is a valuable historical document which accurately reflects racial thinking in the Deep South prior to the Civil Rights Era.

"If we choose any plan short of the physical separation of the races, we are in effect adopting the scheme of amalgamation of the races. We have thousands of years of racial contact in world history to prove to us that where different races live side by side, their blood will intermingle and a mongrel people will be the result. The road of amalgamation and mongrelization leads to the destruction of both the white and the Negro races and to the decay of our civilization which is the product of the white man.

Any student of racial history knows that if the Negroes remain in the United States, the last American will be an octoroon or a mongrel with some portion of Negro blood. If the Negroes are not removed, this condition may come about in three to five hundred years: The fact that it will come sooner or later is a certainty." P/B 257 pp

Zuma hails SA's 'visible progress'

President Jacob Zuma claiming great strides had been made in improving South Africa!!!!

The year 2011 has ended better than it started in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday, claiming great strides had been made in improving healthcare, education, service delivery and fighting crime.
"We have made visible progress in reducing serious and violent crimes, in improving healthcare, rural development, education, social security and the general expansion of access to basic services," he said.

In 2011 the government created partnerships for job creation and made firm plans to improve infrastructure. A great achievement for the country was hosting the COP17 climate change conference.

Hosting the event in Durban, and the International Olympic Committee General Assembly in July, enhanced the country's image as a first class organiser of international events.

Zuma urged South Africans to make 2012 a year of unity and to celebrate the country's political heritage.

"We have an opportunity to showcase our country's remarkable successes, given the historic celebration of the centenary of the ruling party, on January 8 2012.

"Our country proved to the world that it is possible to rise above institutionalised racism, hatred, colonial oppression and apartheid, and build on its ruins a modern democracy which enshrines justice, human rights and dignity

READERS COMMENTS FROM FACEBOOK

Michael Van Staden

I think he has got it the wrong way round, he should have said we ruined a prosperous country, who held its own during sanctions, we killed the manufacturing industry, go take a drive through your local industrial area, then we destroyed the best railway system in the Southern hemisphere, we f****d up your hospitals, we f****d up your roads, we are over charging you to maintain these with ridiculous taxes on your fuel and have now decided to burden you even further with foreign companies taking the last of what you have got left with their toll gates of which the ANC government will only see 45% of the takings, we closed most of the schools in the rural areas especially farm schools, so we at the ANC can force you to make your kids walk the 30 plus kilometers to the nearest town school. We have also decided that it would be more prestigious to host a Soccer world cup than to build our people homes with the money we spent on the cup and of which we still are in dept for to the different foreign investors, for those of you living in the peace and tranquility of the Karoo, you will get to know us in the very near future when we are going to drill a lot of holes and poison you water supply, but don't worry, we will be creating jobs by having to hire or out source the different companies to deliver drinkable water to your house.

 

I forgot the bit with the over filled jails, because the criminals have more rights than the law abiding tax payer. Taken our guns to make it safer for them to climb through our bed room windows, once they have gained access over my electric fence, poisoned my dog and would like to have their way with my Mrs against her will, then take all the money and jewelry and be off in the dark of the night, it wont help phoning the cops, because they don't have the funds to maintain their one and only vehicle at my local cop shop, if its running it probably on its way to collect the next shift of coppers.

 

READERS COMMENTS FROM MAIL & GUARDIAN:

Oh dear. This is about as meaningful as the late Dear Leader of North Korea and his newly appointed son and heir. I've read the sad speech and it's partly fantasy about SA's achievements, mostly generalised and mostly out of step with what really is, and partly a lot of partisan fluff about his own political party's centenary. Hardly the way to go for a nation's head, but I guess that he just asks some henchman to draft some vapid spin for the occasion. And I guess that he anticipates that a large proportion of ANC voters don't really have daily access to any form of critique of the abysmal performance of this exhausted and incompetent governing party.

Anyway, happy new year one and all, and may we have the guts and resources to make good and find peace in 2012 despite this goon at the helm.     

Mr. President, you cannot distinguish between right and wrong, so how can you say that the country has progressed? Progressed backwards or progressed forwards? How would you know?

"Our country proved to the world that it is
possible to rise above institutionalised racism, hatred, colonial
oppression and apartheid, and build on its ruins a modern democracy
which enshrines justice, human rights and dignity."
Mr President, I hope the above words were sincere and not just thoughtless political utterances. Especially when we remember that your nephew has violated human rights and dignity by leaving thousands Aurora Mine workers with nothing to celebrate this Christmas and new year.     

Are you really talking about South Africa? Our country has racist legislation in another guise, there is a lot of hatred, service delivery in ALL departments (except SARS) is virtually non existent. Look at education, defence, health, welfare, and all the rest. Corruption has grown out of proportion. Without colonialism, SA would have had no infrastructure at all! SA has become the word capitol of murder, drugs, aids, and most attributes in the negative!

It is the only country where laws are made against the minority to protect the majority. I would implore you to open your eyes and see what really is going on!     

I think the only ones who have benefited are government ministers and tenderpreneurs Mr President. Your family has benefited tremendously - one of them at the expense of the unpaid miners working for Aurora.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-12-30-zuma-hails-sas-visibile-progress-during-2011/

The Slow Death Of A Black Nation

I picked up an article in the Sowetan Newspaper on the 30th December 2011. For those of you who don't know it is a Black Newspaper printed daily in South Africa.

The follwing was written by a black matric student - probably something a standard 3 or 4 White student would write.

Submitted by Lwazi Nyanakancesh Nongauza for Youthtube: By the Youth, for the Youth. Written the day after her matric exams.

Chaw - chaw cheers quietly - peaceful - surprisingly they passed away, Boom boom like sick ants they die, In shock, anger , disbelief and frustration, We swear, Futsek this metric stupid black curse.
We cry - cry and cry

Why her- why him - why – why???

In despair we mourn

But she was cute, friendly open nice little kid.

Sobbing , we curse , question, curse and questions

why - why - why- why

In anguish , in depression - we blame

Even statistics SA show increase of matric kids suicides

But why?

Damn most of them are black kids.

But why?

Why most of them are black kids?

Why?

Is it because they are denied the luxury benefits Afrikaner students have in examination classrooms?

Is it because exams question papers are not translated into understandable languages?

In democratic 2011 but still like in Apartheid

Black kids are still underprivileged.

In Mzantsi under a black lead government are black kids still inferior creatures.

Indeed in this Mandela rainbow nation skin represents lower class citizen

In our days black race get the last end of the stick

In 2011 democratic but still in apartheid black kids still systematical oppressed

who will immense black kids from this men made hell in south Africa?

Why?

Why most black matriculations failure kill themselves?

Can it be the publication examination results to be one of the reasons?

But why?

Why is passing or failing Matric have to be a Public issue?

For 11 years passing or failing exams has been kids and tier parents business.

Why should the public know any of the Matric student results?

Where did who get person to publicly publish exams results

By the way who benefits from Matric publication business?

Matric students suicides be new to you.

But this belief has been like this for years.

Maybe the right question should be, why nothing is done about this issue?

You and you might not know.

Maybe those who want, can answer have bigger fish to fry.

Meaning

For now, more black Matric students will continue to die.

For now, more poor black parents will mourn.

For now, black kids lead suicides statistics.

For now, more black cloud will continue to hang over our generation.

Chaw - chaw cheers quietly - peaceful - surprisingly they passed away

Boom boom like sick ants they die

In shock, anger , disbelief and frustration

We swear

Futsek this metric stupid black curse

We cry - cry and cry

Why her- why him - why – why???

In despair we mourn

But she was cute, friendly open nice little kid.

Sobbing , we curse , question, curse and questions

why - why - why- why

In anguish , in depression - we blame

Even statistics SA show increase of Matric kids suicides

But why?

Damn most of them are black kids.

But why?

Why most of them are black kids?

Why?

http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/goodlife/youthtube/2011/12/30/the-slow-death-of-black-nation


Here is a comment a good FaceBook friend posted on a FaceBook page I contribute to:

Johan PB Prinsloo

‎"Why is passing or failing Matric have to be a Public issue?" Matric results have always been published in the mainstream media, but now it would need to be stopped, because the black children are committing suicide.

 I don't want to go into this too deeply, but I'm wondering if this is not because of expectations and pressure that kids were never used to before.

 

Black kids now being faced with competitiveness, which is something that never really existed in their culture before. Its something I'll definitely take up with some of the sober thinking blacks I know and get their opinion on.

 

Black kids suddenly have to compete on an equal basis with whites, coloured, Indian & Chinese students and the disgrace of not being able to keep up is too much for them.

 I experienced this while I was at MEDUNSA in the 1980's We had a few white students entering at the university at the time and the black students went on riot to get rid of them, because they outperformed the rest of the students. Once they achieved that they again went on strike to get rid of the Chinese and Indian students for the same reason.

 One has to question whether the competitiveness and pressures of western society, the expectations to perform are not overwhelming. Its too much too soon.

 WE also see it with blacks being put into top earing positions and they become alcoholics, because, suddenly they're earning so much money they don;t know how to handle it, they have to perform and keep up with the rest and meet dead-lines, while in their traditions time is of no concern, tomorrow is another day.

 

Having all this money suddenly they get into drinking and jolling like never before and they end up drinking all-day and even drugs, so much part of SA high society these days.

 The problem with the majority of black people, and I know I'm generalising here, is that they cannot take responsibility for their own shortcomings and mistakes, they always find someone or something else to blame.

 The publishing of the results in public is not the problem, its the inability to cope with what they're suddenly being confronted with thats the problem.

 This may perhaps be compared with what has been happening in SA sport for many years, where young guys enter a sport, the coaches suddenly realise the chap has great potential and they push him to fast. We saw this with young boxers so many times and also in Rugby. Where this young sportsman should have gone places, a year or two later he is gone, burned out and buggared, because he could not cope.

 I've been in tertiary education for many years and I've even been registered as an Evaluator for the Council for Higher Education and served a a High-school's governing body for 15 years and I've seen what they've been doing with these black students.

 

When I started at MEDUNSA in the 1980's we saw how they dropped the standards, just to get the numbers. Since 1994 this has been much, much worse as the standards have now been dropped so low these qualifications are not worth the paper its printed on.

 The late Prof. "Van" Myburgh always said to me that MEDUNSA is the most modern, the best equipped Medical School with the best lectures money could buy, ..... with the worst product being produced at the end.

 

For our foreign / international friends MEDUNSA was a black medical school built by the National Party Government in the 1970's. It still remains a black medical school, but there is very little left of it today.

 Now what happens is that this qualified, yet poorly educated graduate enters the job-market, he gets put in a job based on that qualification, but cannot do the job. He earns the salary and holds the title, he is expected to perform and compete, but he cannot. The end result is that he procrastinates, misses days at work to avoid the wrath of management and starts drinking. He slowly commits career-suicide and eventually ends up on the street a broken individual.

 Now imagine the young black kids suddenly ending up in a school among other rich white, coloured and indian children who are themselves being pushed like hell by their snobbish parents. Parents push their children to perform where they themselves could not, hoping that their kids would make up for their own failure. White children cannot cope, how do the black parents who are not used to and do not give their children any support of any kind expect those kids to perform and cope with it?

 I know I've already spoken too much again, but I just wanted to get this across that they are again finding something to blame rather than to seek the cause and address it.

 

Johan my friend - you never speak too much! Thank you for your post.

What has the Black Man Accomplished?

As Chika says “I want to be a CAPITALIST NIGGER.” He also says it is going to cause a lot of offence to the black race but he does not care! He says black people must wake up from their stupor as he is tired of their whining and victim mentality, tired of listening to the same old complaint – racism.

He also says that the black race has absolutely nothing to offer compared to others in the world. They are consumers and not producers. As the black race has answers to every charge of failure they have incurred themselves: the answer is blaming others for their failures. He goes on to say he believes the black race will descend further into the abyss of the world’s economic pole.

The black race is a slave – pure and simple ……I am frightened and disgusted at the same time, that people who produce nothing and consume everything that others produce. We are always ready to make excuses about the inventions and products our people have perfected in long gone eras, but which have been stolen from us and the ones who stole them have gone on to become very rich. This is nothing but another excuse for our failures.

What has the black man accomplished in business?

“I am sure someone from my group is liable to point out to me that a black man had the idea of the invention of the computer in his brains, of course, it stuck in his brains and couldn’t come out!!!” 

Who really invented the computer? http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html 

There are many success stories of people starting businesses in their garages or even their kitchens with very little or no money and who went on to make millions and even billions financially, but not one of those success stories involves a black man.

Chika talks of using a computer – made by a White man - to write his book - which he bought from a White man, he goes on to say he turns a light on – who invented the light bulb? Why Thomas Edison of course – no one doubts that.

But reading the http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/lewis-latimer.html many black men believe Lewis Latimer, a black man invented the light bulb. In actual fact he did not invent the light bulb – he just devised a way of encasing the filament within a cardboard envelope which prevented the carbon from breaking and thereby provided a much longer life to the bulb and hence made the bulb less expensive and more efficient.

LEWIS LATIMER

Every one knows how black men love their music – the black race spends more money on purchasing musical equipment than any other race.  Who invented radios, stereos, walkmans, and televisions?  – Not a black man, black men do not even own a factory to assemble radios or stereos etc. These items are made by the Japanese, and yet the Japanese have nothing but scorn for the black African. Two of Japans former Prime Ministers publically made the observation that black people were inferior in intelligence, and yet the black race are Japan’s biggest consumers. This is the intelligence of the black man, the black man embraces technology with no understanding of how technology works.

Take the Internet for example – it was founded by White men in their twenties or early thirties who forgot about the good life – the women, the fast cars, expensive suits, partying who rolled up their sleeves and worked hard. What did the black man do? They chose the path of slavery.

All over the world, the story is the same – White twenty–to-thirty something year olds raking in the money and what is the black man doing? Shooting each other in the streets over meaningless causes. Let’s face it the black mans work ethics leave a lot to be desired. They prefer others to establish a company so that they can come in and cry racism when Whites refuse to hire them.

Chika goes on to say that his book is not about separatism. Being a Capitalist Nigger does not involve asking for a separate land area for black people; it does not involve asking all Caucasians to get out of Africa; it is not about taking up arms to slaughter innocent White people.

On your last sentance Chika - you have NO idea of what you are saying. Thousands of White farmes have been mercilessly murdered, White women and White children raped and tortured. The black men and women in South Africa are all out to get the Whites!

Capitalist Nigger

In the following months I will endeavour to put on this blog excerpts from a book I have read and am in the process of re-reading.  It is called Capitalist Nigger - written by Chika Onyeani.

Chika Onyeani

INTRODUCTION

The power of a word...

"According to Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, the word "Nigger" has now come to rank as "perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English.....it is otherwise a word expressive of racial hatred and bigotry."

In October 1960 Nigeria received its independence from Britain. It was a time for celebrating Africa’s coming of age, as more and more African countries received their independence either from Britain or France.

It was especially a poignant time for Africa as then British Prime Minister Harold McMillan articulated his now famous "Wind of Change" sweeping Africa. We had high hopes for Africa, for the black race, that the insidious imposition of foreign rule on us, the looting of Africa’s natural resources by our colonial masters and the disrespect and disdain that these colonial masters accorded us would be things of history. Henrik Verwoerd's response. The tendency in Africa for nations to become independent, and at the same time to do justice to all, does not only mean being just to the black man of Africa, but also to be just to the White Man of Africa........

That was many , many years ago. Unfortunately, the promise of independence has not been fulfilled. Today, Africa has become more desolate; there is more starvation, disease and non-provision of essential services than when we got our independence. There are all kinds of wars in Africa and millions of lives have been lost. There are more dictators in Africa than the rest of the world put together.

The majority of so-called African leaders want to stay in power until the day their bodies are put in the grave. Through buffoonery, utter mismanagement and downright stealing of the wealth of the masses, these leaders have so impoverished Africa that we are now nothing but a beggar continent. We beg for everything; we are more dependent on our colonial masters than when we received our independence from them. Africa owes the west more money than we and our generations to come can repay.

In the last years I have watched with horror and outright helplessness as the downward slide of the African race continues to escalate. But rather than address the problems, we resort to blaming the Caucasian’s, Asians and others for our misfortune. We are not men enough to accept responsibility for our actions.

Africans blame either the British, French or little Portuguese / Spanish for their problems. African’s in America blame the Caucasian’s for all their problems, or any other ethnic group. Africans blame the International Monetary fund, the World Bank, the Group of7, the former colonial masters for the abject poverty in our respective countries. We blame the wars ravaging several African sectors on the interference of our former colonial masters on “our internal affairs” Ha! – some kind of independence.

When we decide to buy a house in a Caucasian neighbourhood, we blame the people for refusing to sell to us because of their belief that we spend more time and money on visible luxurious and ultimately worthless items, than in maintaining our property, which to everyone but us is a major part of their investment and retirement portfolio.

The blame game has become a permanent part of our lives to the exclusion of any other solution that could be more viable in solving our problems. It has become the most productive part of our lives, because without it the African cannot really point to much that they are in charge of producing. It is better to blame others than to confront the truth of our being responsible for whatever has happened to us as an African race.

I decided to write CAPITALIST NIGGER to open a debate on the state of the African race. To tell it like it is, the truth and nothing but the truth. My observations are bound to infuriate a lot of my people. Even the title of this book is bound to make a lot of people angry. Many people will be angry, to say it mildly, when I question the intelligence of my people compared to the Asians, (Indians, Pakistanis, Malaysians, Filipinos) and others who attained independence at the same time as most African countries. Africans need help in solutions offered to help extricate themselves from being a consumer to a productive race.

 PRACTICE CAPITALIST NIGGERISM

 You want your children to have good grades in school? PRACTICE CAPITALIST NIGGERISM because then you will not blame the teachers for failing your children or blame the nationwide testing services for using non-black questions in their tests.

If you want o have a good job PRACTICE CAPITALIST NIGGERISM

Because you want to beat the people who expect you to fail because they believe you are stupid.

Being a CAPITALIST NIGGER puts you in control of every aspect of your life – you are in charge and nobody else.

 The important point is that we must stop the blame game and accept responsibility for the present state of the Black Race.

Capitalist Nigger in South Africa. Chika Onyeani presents a copy of his book to South African President, Jacob Zuma, October 2008

2012 New Year wishes to the Whites in South Africa.

I read this post on the following link:

http://beyondtheriversofethiopia.blogspot.com/

 

Saturday, 31 December 2011

2012 New Year wishes to the Whites in South Africa.

I am not going to bitch and moan about how you people just sit back and let this shit happen, no I am done with that – it is a lost cause.

No – this time around I am going to congratulate you on surviving another year in that country ruled by savages that want(s) you dead.

Regardless of being outnumbered 50 to 1 you managed to survive, and not just survive but make a living and be productive members of society, you found time for your family, fed and played with your children and pets, made love to your wife or girlfriend, purchased proudly South African products and even paid your taxes!!
Taxes that provide that country with infrastructure and vital services for everyone.

You even found the time to braai a tjoppie and drink a dop or two or three with your mates.
In short, complacency aside, you rock!!
You are the essence of what it truly means to be a White South African!!

You don’t think the world owes you a living, you earn a living!
And yes you own shit – not because you are white but because you work your ass off to pay for that shit!!
Well I salute you, because you have the right stuff!!

And without you that country would be a slum like most of its neighbours. – So, go ahead and pat yourselves on the back, because it is only because of you and others like you that there is still something worth staying in that country for!!

So as this year winds down, take a bow because you deserve the honours but also be vigilant as this is the season of intense crime, after all the other South Africans still need to steal their bonus from you, so be wary and watchful and above all be safe.

 

Rest up, have fun with family and friends as you will need all the strength you can muster for 2012, because if the world does not end as predicted, you the few will be called upon to support the many who refuse to even try!!

Forwarded by an unknown reader.

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