Your president calling on you....

[Chrisjan B]

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...-Zuma-20130307

Be a good citizen now and don't do as I do - do as I tell you!

[Blurock]

More smoke and mirrors. If he was serious he should do the country a favour and resign immediately!

[adrianh]

eeeee....we arra de roll modeeels...we make-a da pleenty babies, we rape-a da girls witha de skirts, we steala-a de money with dat Shaky guy, you know, da one dat gotta da terminal cansa from playing too much-a golf inn-a de sun while drinking da Moet. Den we also builda de supa beeg house with-a the sokka field , de spaza shop and-a de 3inches offa da bullet proof glass. eee...anda we dont-a lika da pikture offa da the beeg belly and-a de leetlle tottie. Eish, I nearly forgotted, we also like-a de blek X5, da blek Beemer and-a de blek Caddy. We also lika da edukasion, we study very hard and we learned how to herd-a de sheep. Thees iss-a de fault of Verwoerd.

Role model, my great big Moon...

[Dave A]

Reading that, I got a picture in my mind of JZ turning up for a lecture on morality presented by Pierre de Vos.

I'm trying really hard to get rid of it, but it just won't go away

More seriously, I fully support the message. I had the good fortune to hear Alan Paton speak about "sweeping out the language of hate and predjudice" from our personal dictionaries at a school speech day when I was about 15. It had a major impact on how I conducted myself and saw others from that day forward.

The problem is finding the right person to give the message...

Desmond Tutu would be perfect -
Or has he already been doing it all his life and our society is still this screwed up?

[wynn]

As a white English speaking South African I come from a culture of British Colonialism! so if you want me to forgo my culture you must meet me half way and forgo your culture, then we can have an even playing field with clear goal posts and a better understanding of where we are going!
At the moment I feel I am being overwhelmed by a myriad of what you allege is your culture but in fact was the preserve of your cultural Royalty?
If you want to be seen as a King, I am sorry, I already have a Queen who has a much longer bloodline and history than your Royalty.

[adrianh]

JZ eats moral fibre with his puttu pap for brekfast...we all know whre that ends up 8 hours later...

[Chrisjan B]

I'll rather stay silent as what appears in my thoughts is not fit for publication...

[IanF]

Why does our president nor try and change the perception the whites in SA have of him. He can not be an idiot, he was the intelligence chief before ANC took over government.
"Jacob Zuma was forced to leave Mozambique in January 1987 after considerable pressure on the Mozambican government by the PW Botha regime. He moved to the ANC Head Office in Lusaka, Zambia, where he was appointed Head of Underground Structures and shortly thereafter Chief of the Intelligence Department." Source ANC Website

you don't get a position like that if you are a buffoon. Also been reelected for a second term the ANC should be able to see through him if he is that bad. So what am I as a whitey missing about our President

[Blurock]

Source Article from http://allafrica.com/stories/201303070957.html
South Africa: Free State Community Shares One Tap Between 40 Households

This is what is happening while your president is enriching himself.

[adrianh]

"Head of underground structures"
...
Coffins

[Dave A]

you don't get a position like that if you are a buffoon. Also been reelected for a second term the ANC should be able to see through him if he is that bad. So what am I as a whitey missing about our President

I reckon JZ has many, many wonderful attributes.
It's his flaws that attract the concern and criticism.

Now we're all human, and we all have strengths and weaknesses. So I hope we don't demand perfection of any leader in any position.

Normally we should be following a leader because of his or her strengths, and accept their weaknesses as the price of being the beneficiary of those strengths. But some flaws are pure poison that contaminate the bearer and everything around them. And intentional, concious abuse of infuence is certainly one of them.

The more influence you have, the greater the responsibility to use it... responsibly.

JZ certainly has no qualms about using his influence, and he has plenty of it.
Much of it is for the good of SA.
Some of it is absolutely harmful.

[Blurock]

The more influence you have, the greater the responsibility to use it... responsibly.

JZ certainly has no qualms about using his influence, and he has plenty of it.
Much of it is for the good of SA.
Some of it is absolutely harmful.

Like when you pay R500, 000 to sit at his table at a conference - you are guaranteed to get some tenders or something in return. Cross him and you are history, like Malema.

[IanF]

So JZ is not stupid but he is enriching himself at South Africa's expense. Now he has been reelected as ANC president and is going quash any investigation into corruption between him and Shaik.
What amazes me that this is acceptable to the ANC members, he must know how to manipulate politics very well.
Where is this going to leave SA?

[adrianh]

There is more to it. JZ is a very very clever old dog. Do you think he has 6 wives and 23 children because he likes to shag - to a degree yes but there is a more strategic reason. Just think about the influence he gained by marrying into those families and creating heirs in those families. Kingdoms used to join forces in the olden days by princes marrying princesses of foreign kingdoms. He did the same, he created and empire of connections by marrying into those families. He has a network of family member who are put in the correct places, like chess pieces, to keep the family in real power...even without the ANC. Nobody says anything in the ANC because he controls the important pieces on the chessboard.

JZ could be considered as the internet of South Africa and his choppper is the Master Router....

[Blurock]

JZ could be considered as the internet of South Africa and his choppper is the Master Router....

...or the mouse?