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What's The Issue

What's The Issue

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2013-06-07
Two years now and the world should be ashamed of what is happening in Syria. Ban Ki-moon has come out speaking against the travesty of pain and suffering that the people of Syria are experiencing.

Turkey fascinated me with their uprising. No western involvement evident here, just a people who refuse to be bullied by their leaders. I take my hat off to the way they have stood together against the tyranny of heavy-handed treatment from their police. The Turks are an example, to the rest of the world, of how to stand up for your rights and how not to allow a government to ride rough shod over the peoples demands.

I see a number of political commentaries slating social media for its involvement in the uprisings, however I commend this tool of the people. Here is a lesson to all those leaders who hold power and think they can use the military or the police to enforce their will on the people. I just hope that our government's force feeding the eTolling on the South African public never has to reach this level of protest, but the attitude I have seen so far seems to indicate that they would stop at nothing to get their way in ripping the public off with this fiasco of an idea.

This is just one of the areas where our government does not seem to be heeding the call of its citizens. The information act is another debacle that threatens to blow up in their faces. Oh sorry, did I say threatens? Sorry. I didn't meant to threaten, you see it is not me who is threatening. In any event I don't see the South African public getting as heated about anything as the Turks have just done about police brutality and state oppression. We are likely to just interrupt the traffic a little. No worry for the powers that be, a minor event and then they can go on doing as they please.

Glynnis Breytenbach was acquitted of all 15 counts brought against her by the National Prosecuting Authority and this is a very bad sign for our country. It leaves me sad, not because she was acquitted, but because she was investigating our former head of police crime intelligence, Richard Mdluli. She was investigating him for fraud and corruption. But we don't just stop there, the NPA is now starting to look like a dog with no teeth. Robert McBride slipped through their fingers, Anene Booysen's killers are still on the loose, J Arthur Brown got a measly hundred and fifty grand slap on the wrist plea bargain deal for misappropriating hundreds of millions of mine workers funds.

Very recently the Manase report was once again prevented from becoming public, a report paid for by public funds and done in the interest of the public. This is getting very tiring just writing this crud. Will we burst into flames any day now, just like some of the others? I hope we can prevent that.