Comments on: South Africans are not apathetic, just confused

By: Steven Lamini

Steven Lamini — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:34:04 +0000

Quite unlike many of the commentaries here I do not find your post a meandering nor confusing. Not sure if South Africans are indeed confused though. Demobolised perhaps? Fearless post, this is. Pay no notice to Martyres. His/her measuring-line is hopelessly inadequate, rendering his/her commentary in the context of your post manifestly unsound and rather absurd. Sleep sound at night Ms Rawoot, some people won’t see even if the light of truth blazes them. Tsk! Silly, lazy buggers!

By: counter-revolutionary, third world child

counter-revolutionary, third world child — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:27:48 +0000

No. I’m not confused. I AM apathetic.

By: Fazlur

Fazlur — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:47:04 +0000

By: Damon Leff

Damon Leff — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:10:30 +0000

Thank you Ilham for saying what needs to be said. From some of the responses to your blog I’d say some South Africans are biased, not just confused. Keep up the good work.

By: Hugh Robinson

Hugh Robinson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:41:31 +0000

Sorry dear the higgledy pickledy way of writing sure was confusing. I had trouble trying to find out exactly what was suposed to be seen as confusing.

I think I understand that writer of bologgs tend to flood us with information on varying subjects that our brains over load. LOL

By: Blackbravo

Blackbravo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:55:29 +0000

Complaining is the first part, we should now mobilize and make our voices heard by giving mandate to a government that has a clue about what is happening. We realise the carnage awaiting us in a few years time, let’s do something about it! Sadly, the electorate does not understand the concept of a government and so change is years away and confusion, befuddlement will be our friend for as many years.

By: Martyres

Martyres — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:12:33 +0000

Optical illusion it is this post, madam Rawoot.

I disagree with you totally. South Africans are not and are never confused. South Africans are brilliant bunch of people.

Kam on, talk of hidden charges, your headline is; you’ve been going on and on about Middle East politics line after line.

Please: Denel is a big SA foreign income earner and a very bigger employment partner in the country. talk of recession, SA needs this scarce foreign money. By the way, SA is the only and outstandingly the best in Africa in aviation, madam Rawoot.
Its like abolishing export of Coffee in Kenya to the UK, because britons are in war with Ireland!!

By: Chillipeppa

Chillipeppa — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:00:31 +0000

No wonder South Africans are confused. Even their government ministers are confused. Two cars for one person?? Two cars costing more than a million bucks EACH for one miserable gravy trainer?? Why TWO??

It would cost around R700 to R1000 to schlep the car by car carrying trucks from Pretoria to Cape Town for each parliamentary session.

Then to keep us confused, we MUST have 2 houses of parliament. Why can’t we keep just one, with all the stuff in it. We can turn the other one into an hotel with casino and fill it with tourists for 2010. It will be less of a circus, but will also cost us confused fellows less taxes too.

By: Kitty Kat

Kitty Kat — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:27:06 +0000

I sometimes wonder about these ‘gurus’ who sit quietly in corners by themselves and dream about utopia and then insist that SOUTH AFRICA has not lived up to their image of this world. These are the very people who did not lift a finger to bring about the revolution in this country. These are the ones who benefitted to a large degree and these are the ones who act as some’Dalai Lama’who seemingly have all the expertise and knowledge. In their world, there are no contradictions and restrictions. Now, I wonder if these gurus are active amongst the poor.Do they help when there are floods,do they make a pot of soup to feed the poor,do they sit with the sick in shacks and give them medicine? Did they engage with those who do and tell them how to be better at what they do? In fact,what are these gurus timelines,or their programme of action?Let us remind ourselves: NO-ONE prepared ANYONE for ALL THE WORK that needed to be done to transform this country. There was NO SA handbook.Their is NO MANUAL! The contradictions is part of the process.Look at Cuba,it took them 40yrs to produce the best doctors in the world. The unrealistic expectations created by our new elite is SIMPLY disingenuous.They sit in glass-houses, throw stones and offend all of those who do a great job under extreme conditions. How convenient!

By: JUSTICE

JUSTICE — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:17:42 +0000

1. Lockheed Martin’s C-130 and L-100 aircraft are probably more frequently used in peace keeping operations than in war zones, example world food program. 2. There never was a nation of palistinians in the history of the world, they`ve only existed since Israel came into being, they are refugees because there own people (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebabnon)turned their backs on them for political/religious reasons after the war, they should be integrated back into the above mentioned countries, not demand a piece of Israel.
3. Leave Israel alone
4.Terrorism is a fact that cannot be denied, do you suggest Denel manuf water guns to fight them with?
4. Zimabawe – breadbasket to basketcase and we are on the same path, only difference is i`m white and qualified, I can go overseas when the sh1T hits the fan, what about the (very) poor blacks that will be left behind (They are going to be needing those C130/L100 aircraft urgently and in more numbers than ever before). The ANC (not all individuals) is killing the goose that lays the golden egg.