Comments on: Zille, Zillier, Zilliest

By: johnkweber

johnkweber — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:26:08 +0000

I don’t really know why Helen Zille was so dead set against the commission. Having seen the way the commissions and reports get ingnored in SA should seem to render it useless anyway. What does go without saying is that whatever the commmissions find out, it would anyway be open to interpretation from all the different parties.

Nothing is what it seems and seemingly nothing is as it should be. A real pity really, as South Africa is a most amazing country, full of expectation and promise. Where else can you become anything and do anything. We still have certain freedoms which are taken for granted here in SA but in other places like Zimbabwe are just taken away.

It is truly hard to find solutions in a country where there is so much hurt and pain which has not yet been healed. Hatred is a difficult thing to let go of and not many people are capable of forgiving let alone forgetting.

Unfortunately for us, we harm ourselves terribly by not being able to forgive. It is truly liberating to be able forgive and if you have truly forgiven you will forget automatically as time passes. Don’t forgive and it has the ability to consume your every waking moment and thought.

By: Eagle

Eagle — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:20:35 +0000

@ Helen,

As the political correctness and the liberalism disappears, there appears to be emerging some impressive leadership abilities, not to mention the steel fist in the velvet glove.

Keep the Cape out of ANC hands, correct the occasional leftist shift and I will vote for you as President, I promise.

By: Eagle

Eagle — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:13:04 +0000

Vintage de Vos behaviour, which he also exhibited during my run-ins with him.

Hit and run I think it’s called.

In a way he reminds me of a friend of mine who became a religious fanatic and ultimately developed a bi-polar disorder.

A man cannot serve two masters.

By: Michael Diaz

Michael Diaz — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:58:44 +0000

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=88852&sn=Detail The logical errors of Pierre de Vos

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:34:49 +0000

Well, Ms Zille, who so comprehensively gazumped the Professor-Who-Was-Weighed-and-Found-Wanting on this thread obviously knows where he lives. And, equally patently, how to gazump him at will, should she even be bothered to do so.

By: anton kleinschmidt

anton kleinschmidt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:51:05 +0000

Readers who have been enjoying this blog will find it has moved to http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/pierredevos/2008/04/23/hypocrisy-rules-again/#comment-28441

A very deft slight of hand

By: anton kleinschmidt

anton kleinschmidt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:06:07 +0000

Lots of egg on lots of faces. Pierre?

It would be absolutely wonderful if the ANC would allow the DA to get on with the job of running the city of Cape Town for the benefit of all its people. The ANC no doubt realise that this would merely highlight how badly they performed when they were in charge. Viva wedges and edges viva!

By: Marian

Marian — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:43:03 +0000

I hope Pierre is being quiet because he’s rushed to get a copy of the Erasmus Commission’s mandate so he can express the impartial academic opinion from a constitutional law expert on whether he would submit any organisation he belongs to the same scrutiny.
I wait in breathless anticipation….

By: amused reader

amused reader — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:49:44 +0000

@ Pierre

Oh so quiet………….

You have been called, you cannot just go quiet and hope it will go away. we want to hear what you now have to say for yourself.

By: Michael Diaz

Michael Diaz — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:38:09 +0000

Right then Pierre, I think you’re next blog should be an apology to Zille. Helen is spot-on when she mentions this smear campaign. The ANC have constantly attempted to overthrow the successful DA coalition and mayor. Well more fool you, if you cannot see the full picture. The Erasmus commission is too politicized, as is the entire issue. This is just another smear campaign, the other commission in which the city was cleared is credible, this one is not. The Erasmus commission will take up a huge amount of taxpayers money, and what for? a political smear campaign by the ANC who have proved themselves too incompetent to CT and wider Western Cape voters.

Long live the DA-led City of Cape Town and hopefully 2008 will bring about a DA-led Western Cape province.

As ever Zille, we the rational people are fully behind you during this millionth dirty tactic of the ANC’s.