Comments on: Media tribunal smacks of an ANC cover-up

By: Stew Smith

Stew Smith — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:28:24 +0000

The ANC can do no wrong… why wouldn’t they shut the media up?

By: mgeve

mgeve — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:51:25 +0000

The ANC has a lot to hide, and most of the posts here eloquently point out to. There is another aspect which the ANC knows works, like intimidating, harassing and haranguing the poor defenseless African majority, not they are gunning for the White minorities to put them in line. I say this because that is what bullies like Mantashe believe in. They reckoned that if the can silence their voting majority with all the shenanigans performed, they can just as well as shut the so called ‘nosy’ minority’. Some of the comments on some topic here on M&G are repulsive, some are sensible. This imbalance is what makes the ANC thrive. Of course, there are these “Knuckle-heads” in the service of the ANC, one can imagine, who intimidate the voters during the voting time, using various tactics, dirty of misleading, on the voters are like in the poor sections of our country. But the poor and shut-down majority’s murmurs are gaining in crescendo. Just as the Apartheid regime ignored the plight of the majority Africans, and as does the ANC do the same, ignore its electorate, they are merely lighting the fuse, which, no one knows, will explode, and things are not going to be pretty…. The strangest part of all this is that the ANC imagines it is hiding something, but, in the township intelligence, they are brutally naked, and sadly transparent, and it time, the “Inziles” and the “Exiles” gap is getting broader, libambeni Lingashoni….

By: Jens Eggers

Jens Eggers — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:56:21 +0000

The ANC must be made to realize that this is a fight they cannot win. A massive campaign needs to be mounted against the Media Tribunal and the Protection of Information Bill. We should not yield an inch of our hard-won democratic freedoms.

This is a battle that the educated people of SA will have to fight, also on behalf of those who don’t understand the dangers they invite by tolerating the oppression of their perceived opponents, and who still trust the ANC.

By: Sizwe Makhazana

Sizwe Makhazana — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:56:18 +0000

Leave our loved anc alone you bloddy agent. Put those jurnalist in jail because thay only wrote bad stories about the party. our comrades only steel a little money, the old goverment stole lots.

By: blogroid

blogroid — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:07:27 +0000

It is inevitable. A child that walks before it crawls is doomed to inadequate development: Piaget.
The ANC inherited a functioning State. As did most post colonial societies. Not having been responsible for building, brick by agonizing brick, the substance of their inheritance, the State must inevitably regress, under the weight of competitive self interest, as have those others around us.
A century after nightfall it may be that new generations, having been fed for a time on accumulated and confiscated wealth, must then acknowledge that it is time to rebuild on valid foundations.
In the meantime the functioning `State’, to the extent that we knew it, must be consumed. This is the way of our human history. For as long as the majority accept the myth that only the Apartheid evildoers were capable of oppression, for that long we must regress…
Fight it Herr Trapido, because you must.
Understand though that darkness inevitably follows day, and our period of daylight wanes to the twilight of our short Weimar.
The damage is done; our economy languishes in perpetual stagnation and there is not much new loot left for all who need feeding… and… there is no light at the end of the tunnel… John Gault has left the arena.It is necessary that the parasites who have the helm fend off those who would board their little raft. Hence protection is needed.
It is a time when sensible people prepare their defences and see to it that the moat is clear.

By: William Smith

William Smith — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:44:24 +0000

Just another nail.

By: V3

V3 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:20:34 +0000

Pierre de Vos on the ANC’s deployment of Cde Simelane as chief crony in the NPA: “a gangster hellbent on protecting himself”.

How prophetic.

By: Mary Nordfors

Mary Nordfors — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:45:20 +0000

From my perspective, which is Sweden, what’s happening around freedom of speach etc in SA is not just disturbing but right out frightening. I can’t find words to say how wrong this is. And I can tell you all that I’m not the only one with this view. The world will follow the development and deplore SA/ANC if this path is persued.

By: MLH

MLH — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:46:57 +0000

You’ve got it.
We’ve got it.
But it might not be a bad idea for a few media representatives to be there to do their utmost to make government get it too.
A lawyer wouldn’t hurt either.
Please volunteer, Traps.

By: Peter Joffe

Peter Joffe — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:15:03 +0000

Traps you articles are so good but why do you have to be ‘politically correct’.
This bill smacks of an ANC cover up, you say, – this bill is and ANC cover up.
As we saw in the recent papers and the reports that Sisulu, the Minister of Defence,will not release to the public because the DA will try to make political milaeage out of them.
If you have nothing to hide then why try to hide anything.
The ANC has to stop the assault on their ‘integrity’ because they have no integrity and are mired in corruption and ineptitude.
All Dictatorships ,and South Africa is and ANC led Dictatorship have to muzzle the press and this is what they are doing.
We all know it so lets all declare it from the roof tops and not be mealie mouthed about it. Our freedoms are slipping away but with an overwhelming majority in parliament there is very little or nothing that we can do about it.
Mao Tse Tung wrote that the only way to overcome revolution is with another revolution. God knows and we know that this is what we want least. Let us hope that sanity prevails and those who vote ANC Forever wake up and vote for someone else. We need to vote for ‘standards and principles’, not a party that has lost its way. And now were are to have Super Tax to fund the Super Gravy Train, but that will be coeverd up too.