I’ve spent the past week breaking as many laws as I can, starting with disobeying a sign ordering me not to walk on the grass, which wasn’t nearly as exciting as I thought it would be. - BT
SHOOT: Pieter Dirk Uys recently said that Americans were inspired by Barack Obama's 'Yes we can!' That South Africans should have responded to their politicians by saying 'No you can't!'
The vote is obviously one way, one day, of communicating a message and an intention. For my part I see Helen Zille's DA as the most moral and least institutionally racist. But South Africans, and especially bloggers, ought to become a lot more political. Without activism there can be no accountability, and evil happens when good citizens do nothing. Hail the Dark Night is coming.
South Africans are not stupid. Nor are they spineless.
The reason people haven’t taken to the streets in protest against the dropping of charges against Jacob Zuma is because they have grasped the full import of what has happened here.
The rule of law, widely unpopular to begin with, has officially been shelved. Eight years and R100-million later, common sense and reason have finally prevailed. For this, we have two men to thank: Mokotedi Mpshe and Willie Hofmeyr have done a spectacular job and theirs deserve to be the first two names entered into the new pantheon of heroes.
In the beginning, there were Mandela and De Klerk — midwives. In the end, there were Mpshe and Hofmeyr – undertakers. Black and white. Still side by side. But now, at least, we can stop pretending.
With Pretoria no longer needed as the legislative capital, it can be turned into a 4x4 adventure theme park in which people get drunk and kill each other with impunity. In that respect, nothing changes.
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