Can we vote for more?

I saw your comments but I don’t quite get it. You will have to clarify it for me.

You are only half right:
See my comment on Khadija’s article:Darfur not Genocide(re Rwanda) and on Michael Trapido’s article: Zimbabwe: a Bonfire ( re Africa rising)

As you obviously know, nothing in Africa has the same meaning as elsewhere.

The “democracy” much lauded by the interfering West, has now become ‘African democracy’ in virtually every African country, where it means; one man, one vote, one time. Alternatively; one one-party state, one dictator, for life.

Consider what happened after majority rule and democracy was forced upon Rwanda. Almost 900 000 citizens, mostly the minority Tutsis, were massacred in the street. Where were those then that forced Western democracy upon Rwanda?

It is the interfering West, and the UN that was present in Rwanda during the genocide, but stood by and did nothing, that should be taken to an international court for “crimes against humanity”.

In South Africa, ‘African Communism’ will simply mean; “I’m now free to plunder what I want, for myself – for life”.

African followers of the ANC don’t know what communist actually means. Neither do the new young communists – they think it means socialist.

Good point, Lyndall. He will probably get off. Add to this his R 15 million legal fees already paid by the taxpayer, as well as his other R 10 million legal fees, still to be paid, than most of us have been working for most of our lives to finance Zuma’s irresponsible, selfish and self-indulgent behaviour.

However, I suspect that this will be small change compared to the financial implications when he sells our country out to the communists.

It is only in Africa that this could happen.

As Martin Luther King so rightly said, ‘The consequences of discrimination are used to justify it’. He was talking I am sure about the situation in the USA in the 60′s but the same holds true with respect to the racial legislation brought into force and justified by our present government. Racism in any form whatsoever and no matter how applied is wrong. It is as simple as that. The consequences of past racism can be addressed in non-racist ways if the government of the day sets its mind to it. Our government has however taken the politically expedient route and sadly continued with racism. Racism continues to rob our country and its people of their true potential.

anyway, i’m choosing to stay in south africa because due to the failure of eskom and the anc to properly plan, the rand is falling faster than the dollar. [i'm paid in US$ -- messrs zuma, gcabashe and maroga have been instrumental in my re-emerging solvency after my acrimonious divorce. thanks guys!]

let’s see, the presumptive next president is a barely literate buffoon with no impulse control when it comes to his personal finances, and his judgment is so bad that he has unprotected sex with a woman he knows to be hiv+ — and did i fail to mention he has five wives?

the world economy is rapidly coming to the [correct] conclusion that south africa is on its way to being just another banana republic. this could have been avoided, but wasn’t.

even zanu-pf did right by most zimbabweans for a few years. the anc can’t even claim to have done that.

ugh.