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South Africa today — Monty Python would have a nervous breakdown!

– post on PDU website, Monday 13th March 2006

1. Jacob Zuma, the former Deputy-President of South Africa, now on trial for rape, admits to having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman. He had, throughout his tenure as Deputy-President, been elevated by Thabo Mbeki as the guardian of public morality and headed the campaign to confront HIV/Aids.

2. President Thabo Mbeki gave an interview to the City Press — which was unsurprisingly ignored by the politically-correct local media — in which he stated that there was no Aids death-crisis in South Africa. "...no one has sounded the alarm where I work daily in the Presidency and nobody has said there is a particularly alarming tendency of people dying," he said. It must also be noted that during a sixty minute Opening of Parliament speech, the President of a country where over 5 million people have AIDS, mentioned the pandemic in a brief 52 words.

3. Koeberg, the nuclear power station that services Cape Town and the Western Cape has collapsed due to mismanagement, corruption and carelessness. The Minister in charge, Alec Irwin, called it 'sabotage', but after the  appalled world leaders probably shat on him for even considering that as a solution to a problem in a potential Chernobyl, Alec called it 'human instrumentality'. Meanwhile the citizens of the area suffer outages (no use of the word 'blackout') and businesses implode.

4. After the 1 March municipal elections Cape Town still sits without a local government as political parties sniff  each other's arses for support. The ANC foisted a nepotistic warrior-empress called Nomindia onto the City; the DA enchanted us with the likes of Morkel and Marais as the Laurel and Hardy of corrupt local government. Meanwhile the ID holds some balance of power, while the African Muslim Party still calls for the death penalty to be restored. (Where? On the Grand Parade every Tuesday at 3pm?)

So what are the solutions here?

1. Stop paying Zuma all the taxpayers money that keeps him the style to which he has become accustomed.

2. Replace Thabo Mbeki with a committed leader from the ANC who cares about people.

3. Fire the CEO of Eskom Thulani Gcabashe who takes home R13 million rand a year for doing nothing.

4. Encourage President Mbeki to assert his leadership by suspending party political government for 3 months and appointing an efficient manager to drag Cape Town back into the 21st century.

Or else....

1. Zuma will walk free as an example to our youth to rape, gryp and escape.

2. We will have 20 million South Africans dead in ten years of 'natural causes'. (Natural Xhosas?)

3. Cape Town will become East London. When small business dies, big business flies.

4. Cape Town becomes a combination of Bogota, Lagos, Nairobi and Harare.

Watch this space.

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