Whatshot
What's The Issue
What's The Issue
Date: 2012-11-07
Before my head could stop spinning I read in a number of newscasts that reported how Jacob Zuma now wants to protect Africans from becoming too clever. Hayibo.com went to town inserting quotes from his speech to the Traditional Leaders that do not show our President up in a good light. One quote kept my little head spinning away like a top on a school playground "Cleverness puts ideas in people's heads, and before you know it they are asking where their tax money goes, and then you have anarchy,"
Bingo, anarchy is what we have. The people want to know where the tax she does go. Helen tried to find out when she visited our illustrious President's new home this weekend, but she was not welcome. Zuma supporters and the Police stopped her. The cops said it was for her protection that they stopped her and they were probably right. Helen says she has every right to inspect the works at Nkandla because the ANC have evoked the apartheid era legislation, The National Key Points Act to justify the spending of R240 million on a private residence. The SACP spokesperson Malesela Maleka pulled the race card saying that Helen's visit was a racist act. My head just kept on spinning. Did Nelson Mandela build himself such a home? Ghandi? Bush maybe, but then Bush was different.
On the subject of Bush, as I write this column, America is at the poles choosing between Obama and Mitt. I would not like to have to make that choice; it's like choosing between tripe or trotters. Neither candidate measures up to my expectations of the president of the most powerful nation on earth. Sorry.
I know that the Syrians don't feel the same way, they are all voting for Obama, I suspect because they can see the shadow of the war machine lurking behind Mitt, just waiting for a chance to invoice the state for some more military hardware. Phew, now I'm really dizzy.