Going on sabbatical

I will be on a sabbatical for a week. It is incumbent that I go on vacation and I don't want to mention the consequences that would result should I fail to do so.

When I come back I will give my blog a new lease of life. I will improve the image and the quality of the news, commentary and write more frequently.

I wish everyone a happy Easter weekend. I pray that people will avoid things like alcohol, drugs and speeding.

I encourage everyone to read. You may read a book, a poem, a story or newspaper. But whatever you do, don't forget to read.

We are not kaffirs

The name kaffir is a derogatory name that Afrikaners used to call Africans during the era of apartheid racialism. Some racist elements still use the name but apparently the incidents are isolated. One can compare this to the situation in the United Sates when white Americnas used to insult African Americans by calling them niggers.

Although some African Americans have accepted the name nigger to refer to themselves, we South Africans have not and we will never embrace the kaffir name. Who knows, maybe after 100 centuries?

When Arthur released the song "Kaffir" in the mid 1990's I thought the name would find appeal among the youth kwaito generation. Being part of this generation then, we tried using the name with my friends but it simply didn’t stick. It is an ugly name and there is nothing cool about it.

When Irvin Khoza told an African journalist to stop thinking like a kaffir I was baffled. He went on to claim that Africans in the townships use the name to refer to themselves. That is a blatant lie. Perhaps he considers himself a kaffir, but he must not think we are also kaffirs.

All I can say is that the man does, after all, talk like a kaffir.

666

Is the Beast about to reveal himself?

When Fikile Mbalula, president of the African National Congress Youth League said that the sale of liquor must be banned on Sunday I was not overly surprised. It set my mind wondering why Mbalula chose Sunday of all the days.

I asked myself; did he visit the Vatican and was asked to subtly champion the sanctity of Sunday and the impending mandatory Sunday worship?

I find this distressing. Maybe it's because I refuse to take it lightly. Hardly a week after the statement by Mbalula, the British Parly passed a motion numbered 666 on the order paper calling for the separation of state and church.

The efforts to unite the world and to bring about so-called global peace and prosperity under one government are nothing but a farce to control the world and force people to worship on Sunday.

The beast is revealed. He is a man, and his number is 666, and he is VICARIUS FILII DEI.

Are police cowards?

We want the army

Police are human. They have their fears, concerns, aspirations and goals.

The fact that they have undergone intensive physical and firearm training and that they carry guns and shoot to kill when it is necessary does not make them Terminators or Rambos.

But their role remains a noble and imperative one; to protect our lives and property.
As marauding gangs of armed bandits intensify their siege on ordinary citizens in the country, we look up to the police to protect us.

But what do we do when police themselves are scarred of the armed criminals who answer fire with fire?

The brutal murder of seven year-old Gofaone Tyatya at the Zandspruit informal settlement in Johannesburg on Sunday raises doubts about the ability of the police to deal effectively with crime.

If police are afraid to respond to a crime because an area is dangerous then we are doomed. The fact that they did not have a car is a lame excuse. Where were the cars in the first place?

If they are afraid, then the government must excuse them and bring in the army. They will surely do a better job. I bet some have been in the barracks for some time and are now itching for some action.

All South Africans, black and white, are sick and tired of crime.

Scantily clad women march to taxi rank

Published in Reporter.co.za today.

Taxi drivers angered by marchers blockade

By Tsuai

The Noord street taxi rank came to a chilling standstill on Friday when scantily clad women marched to the rank in protest against the disrespectful behavior of taxi drivers towards women.

The marchers, under the banner of Remmoho Women’s Forum (RWF), were determined to assert their freedom and right to choose what to wear and when to wear it. This march followed the incident at the Noord street taxi rank where a 25 year old woman’s clothes were torn off because she was wearing a mini-skirt.

The indecent assault has aroused widespread condemnation from all and sundry.

The police had to call for back up to prevent the taxi drivers from attacking the marchers who blockaded the Plein street exit of the taxi rank. Marchers sang struggle songs, danced and exposed their breasts and panties provocatively as they dared the taxi drivers to touch them.

The taxi drivers retaliated by singing ’Awulethu umshini wam,’ (bring me my machine gun), insulting the female marchers and taking off their trousers and showing off their backside. A drunken man believed to be a taxi queue marshal was arrested for insulting and provoking the police.

The secretary of the Top Six taxi association Mr. Mogorosi accepted the memorandum of demand from the marchers and condemned the behavior of those taxi drivers who sexually harass women.

When asked whether RWF condoned the actions of the marchers who showed off their bodies, Nosipho Twala justified the behavior as a form of protest and a show of disgust and outrage at what they did to the female who was sexually harassed and many other women.

Another leader of the marchers, Tebogo Mashota, said that they were ’not intimidated by the actions of the taxi drivers.’

Most of the marchers believe that women must not be controlled by males, their parents, and the community as to what they must wear.


http://www.reporter.co.za/newszone/article.aspx?ID=RP21A718550