Comments on: Juju’s globetrotting — for what?

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:14:17 +0000

@ phemelo

two words: democratic alliance

that way things that should get done actually get done.

no pie in the sky that never gets implemented.

but then you will retort that they are the very same imperialists you so despise.

would the real truth not be somewhere in the middle?

By: Rob Thorn

Rob Thorn — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:27:32 +0000

I’ll say this for the Malema boy, he keeps me in stitches! Laughter is good for the soul and he’s an excellent stand up comic. The SABC should make a new local comedy entitled ANCYL in which he’d play the lead role-it would be an absolute hit!

On a more serious note what precisely does the so called “youth” league do for SA’s youth? What’s their mission and vision statement? How do they go about improving the lives of our country’s younger generation? What’s their mandate? For starters, Malema and his “committee” are political appointees not democratically elected by young South Africans. In terms of their ages, they do not qualify as “youth”, the dictionary definition of which is early adulthood. Therefore, they and their “league” are non-entities, not worthy of the media attention they are constantly afforded.

By: Mashudu

Mashudu — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:44:27 +0000

@ X Cepting, Firstly I think that would be a grave (not hate speech) mistake to think that Malema represents most African Male youth. Just bcoz he is a public figure (or rather media darling since he helps them sell papers and ad space). Secondly, the young man in your example is not a thinker enough for engineering if he is so easily swayed by the impressions given by the likes of Juju.

By: Mashudu

Mashudu — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:35:19 +0000

@ Luzelle, I do not need to say something you appreciate to validate myself. I am also from an academic background, if having a postgrad. degree counts. But I just have a problem with ppl who use their backgrounds to expedite some pointless discourse

By: Phemelo

Phemelo — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:28:32 +0000

@Suntosh and all you pessimist bloggers
History has shown that it is not the Communist system that fail but the application thereof.Instead of governing for the people, some Communist countries created state Capitalism for themselves and their sons.Case in point was Breshnev who made sure his son benefits from state enterprises.

Furthermore one cannot apply communism in one country thus countries need to trade with each other and support each others’ economies.Currently Imperialist countries trade with each other in the name of globalisation for the benefit of a few fat cats.They in turn colonise underdeveloped and developing countries through bodies like the UN,WTO,World Bank,IMF,etc.Other imperialists go to the extent of declaring war through the guise of destruction of WMD and nuclear proliferation accusations.
What I need to know now is if Juju gets a mutiny tomorrow and is no longer President of the ANCYL and has no voice,what next?Nationalisation will still be a burning issue to contend with.That includes land dispossession,racism and its hangovers,poverty(and its eradication),joblessness(due to profit maximisation at the expense of the poor workers and slave wages),individual ownership of mineral resources,etc.Someone must continue raising these issues in as much as you lot continue raising issues at coffee shops and canteens without hearing the concerns of the poor majority in the townships of Lentegeur,Galeshewe,etc. Lastly,we only got the right to vote in 1994,economy in few hands.

By: marxism sux

marxism sux — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:34:48 +0000

Dictators need to surround themselves with other dictators when the inevitable paranoia starts to consume them…sounds much like Stalin in his last days.

By: X Cepting

X Cepting — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:27:33 +0000

@Jojo – For the same reason a lot of the black market oil moved through South Africa in the previously sanctioned government… Communism is not the point, sanctions is. It provides the perfect situation for a black market economy. Look at all the failed communist states before you make up your mind on that hypotheses.

By: MLH

MLH — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:38:28 +0000

WTF: Puerile, yes, but not necessarily illiterate. More likely, A-literate, which would mean he can, but couldn’t be bothered to. There are many of those around, a sadness in itself. I gather it’s an objection to the English language (it is in KZN: Zulus here refuse point blank to speak to any other black person in English); clearly Afrikaans was not the only issue about apartheid schooling…
Anyway, his absence is a welcome relief and just think, our media could do their own research on his movements while away and actually have something intelligent to write about his puerile remarks on his return. What an opportunity!

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:34:56 +0000

Has it ever occurred to you that libraries are owned by people who have vested interest in the books that are available on the shelves? Why ONLY listen to capitalists when you want to learn about communism? We have read about (against) communism already. Maybe we should go get our experience of it first-hand.

Why do americans use cuban routes when in transit to fetching some of their oil, when SANCTIONS on Cuba remain?

By: Peter Joffe

Peter Joffe — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:19:05 +0000

The ANC, if they are serious about our economy, should put a stop to these trips to failed countries. If they do not it is obvious that they support the trips, they support the ways of Mugabe etc., and will soon implement these economy shattering methods in South Africa. The strategy is that ‘if the white man or the apartheid regime built it, good or bad, destroy it’.
This is what happened in Zim, this is what happend in Zambia, Angola and so on throughout Africa and of course Haiti which the West have rebuilt at least 4 times. It seems that starvation in South Africa is better than a vibrant economy, a full stomach, where, God forbid, some rubbish white farmers grew the food and some rubbish white business men provided jobs. Back to the bush but don’t forget a decent garage to house your BMW or better still, a 4X4 as the roads will all be unusable. We have no place in this rainbow nation for any other colours other than black. Mugabe traded good farms and farmers for bad farmers and ‘farms’ and votes. Will we follow suit? I suppose we will in and effort for the ANC to stay in power and keep their hands in the treasury. Mbeki, Zuma and Malema have noted the ‘staying in power’ successes of Mugabe and support him without thought to the people that will suffer because of it.