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What's The Issue
What's The Issue
Date: 2012-12-06
No doubt it was a disgraceful turn of events, something we will remain ashamed of as a nation. However we need to learn from this and ensure that striking workers who commit criminal acts of destruction of property and physical violence, have to be brought to a firm justice.
Meanwhile the march against tolling warmed my affections for South Africans. Here is an issue where we can all stand together against a government that believes it can steamroll its will onto the people. They will probably still steamroll their will onto us; the e-tolling will most likely go ahead. But we stood together against something and that is an achievement. COSATU say they will tear down the tolling gantries, and then ANCYL spokesperson, Lamola, asked why there were no white people in the march. Now they say they will take the gantries down gently and hand them over to SANRAL. Maybe some white folk will help with that.
As if violent mining sector strikes weren't enough of an impact on our struggling economy, COSATY and NEHAWU are now inciting violent strikes in the Western Cape. Mildred, our labour minister says she can't meet the promises to increase the minimum wage made by Tina, our agricultural minister, until March next year.
Oh but this is all so trivial in comparison to NkandlaGate, Our presidents story of a bank bond that seems untraceable, more allegations of how the SA tax payer has built houses for Jacob's brothers and lots lots more.
The ANC is thwart with dissent, hooligans invading council meetings and demanding all kinds of impossible stuff. When the police were called in to help in Limpopo, they had still not arrived over an hour after the call for help was made. The Western Cape missed the deadline and only 150 of the 170 branches got it together.
Whether it's Zuma or Motlanthe, Sexwale or Phosa it is extremely important, just as important as Zilla increasing the DA's share of the black vote, something she should have been concentrating on for a long time now, if she hasn't already been doing that.