Comments on: Malema: We don’t need no education

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:11:58 +0000

Well done, Traps…

By: Michael Trapido

Michael Trapido — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:08:01 +0000

Phillipa – nobody would ever call highly educated politicians “garden boys” except Malema.

Of course we have to rub his nose in it.

Belle – I feel a bit better acquainted with my audience and what part of my humour they like and what they don’t. This makes it far easier to be a bit more expressive.

In terms of South Africa I could not be more positive. I feel that we are getting around to that robust debate Kollapen suggested awhile back.

We really are a different mob and that’s why I love this country and all the people.

In terms of Malema – Max Clifford on steroids could not have created a profile this high in such a short time.

Go Julius you good thing!

By: GS van Zyl

GS van Zyl — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:45:00 +0000

Very funny…

Maybe it will not be as funny 20 years from now when Malema is an entrenched dictator. He can do more harm to South Africa than the damage Mugabe has done to Zimbabwe.

The ANC must reform him.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:28:30 +0000

Trotsky makes a lot of sense. Sadly…

By: Phillipa Lipinsky

Phillipa Lipinsky — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:20:30 +0000

Traps, I don’t think the bit about the garden boys is funny. If anything, it’s humiliating to those blacks who have to do domestic work (even cleaners etc.). Maybe we shouldn’t joke about it.
The thing about this country is that ‘public opinion’ is measured in a very narrow way. Mostly it is middle-class opinion. That is why a lot of us might be puzzled as to how, when we know that Zuma is so obviously unfit to govern, millions of people seem to think otherwise. or why, after the ANC had gotten such bad press due to ‘slow service delivery, two-thirds of voters voted for it. Perhaps if we got off our all-knowing, middleclass pedestal we might be in line with what the rest of SA is actually thinking. The DA is not likely to secure votes if certain people in that party still continue to potray blacks as dim-witted and unable to make political decisions that are in their interests. Only 45% of eligible voters voted in the previous election. Presumably, a large chunk of the 55% was black and if many of them vote now; they will likely vote for the ANC; despite the bad press it has been receiving. Perhaps if/when the DA adresses more authentically the issue of race as being an essential determinant of class instead of denying this obvious fact, then we will see a significant shift in voting dynamics

By: Lyndall Beddy

Lyndall Beddy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:12:45 +0000

Yeah well – my daughter’s new passport has just been stolen by the Post Office – in London!

By: Michael Trapido

Michael Trapido — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:53:39 +0000

Mundundu – France as well? What bad luck…we’ll have to start rafting from Spain…

By: Michael Trapido

Michael Trapido — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:17:21 +0000

Paul – I know about Amazon and it’s a great shame for those of us who read a lot and have to wait months for the new books we want.

By: Belle

Belle — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:27:01 +0000

Traps, a short year ago your blogs were characteristically sharp and sober. Is it my imagination or are you experiencing rising levels of hysteria? While the rest of us chuckle at your hilarious wit (in no half-measures) I sometimes wonder if your humour reflects a grin of mirth or a grimace of panic ….

By: mundundu

mundundu — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:07:06 +0000

(you lot already need visas for france, traps. i’ve heard that schengen visas are going to become even more of a pain to get. ag, shame.)