State of the Nation

[sterne.law@gmail.com]

I wonder how many people are watching the address purely to see what happens.
So far...most intriguing..

[adrianh]

Wha ha ha ha....

Julius Malema and the EFF might have $h1t for brains but they sure have balls of steel.

[Dave A]

I certainly made a conscious decision I was going to watch it, come what may.

The writing was on the wall that there was going to be a testing moment in the development of democracy in SA. The only question was exactly how events would unfold.

[adrianh]

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" ...while it serves my strategy!

I am going to make a crapload of money selling red berets with a DA logo and the following slogan "Moer hulle"

[IanF]

Simon Dingle's tweet summarises this nicely:

"A summary of the president's SONA address:

- Fuck freedom.
- Fuck democracy.
- Fuck foreigners.
- Basically, just fuck you South Africa."

[IanF]

Here is a prophetic cartoon from May 2014

EWN apologised for the cartoon but a lot more could be added now.

[CLIVE-TRIANGLE]

I was left with a few thoughts:

If some of the roles were reversed, how would the outcome have differed? If the EFF had the majority and the ANC the minority, would:
1 The ANC behave similarly?
2 Would the EFF have pulled in the bouncers?

I am in no doubt that the answer in 1 above would be "yes"; they have demonstrated far worse behavior when they seem to not be getting their own way.
The second question ... I don't know, but I know that it bothers me, because the slippery slope is getting increasingly steep.

A role reversal between the DA and the ANC would be equally interesting. I know exactly how the ANC would have behaved, but it again bothers me that I don't know how the DA might have, given that type of provocation.

In a way the events played into zoomer's hands. I for one have very little idea what he said; the content of the address hardly played any role. That which I did hear was drivel. It turned into a mini-mini-mini budget speech, while the REAL state of the nation was a huge mammoth in the room.

[wynn]

The EFF are playing the game the ANC way, what else did you expect, I have always said Julius is not stupid and he is proving it every day.

This was overheard at the speaker's podium when the cellphone signal was blocked at the SONA.

[pmbguy]

In Davos JZ invited foreigners to invest in SA, then last night he announced the banning of foreign land ownership.

[sterne.law@gmail.com]

If I was EFF I would have had someone stand up every 5 minutes and interrupt.
I heard that thing on Buthelezi's head was the jamming applicance.