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Ferdi
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Rubriek in die Sunday Times. (Deur 'n lojale ANC-man, 'n held van die
struggle.)
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Deafening silence as Mbeki and Co reduce South Africa to a state of
fear
Published:Oct 14, 2007
Juctice Malala
I am angry and I am afraid. I am deeply afraid for my country.
The sound of silence has fallen over our country while the government
of President Thabo Mbeki, in its anger and its shame over its numerous
failures and acts of deceit, uses state security apparatus to go after
every man and woman who dares to speak truth to power.
While all this happens, the many good men and women in Cabinet, in
government, in business, in the trade unions and in civil society,
keep quiet. Where are the good men and women of the United Democratic
Front? Where are the many good men and women of the SA Council of
Churches, such as Brigalia Bam?
They are silent. They are in agreement while the democracy they fought
for is abused to protect the increasingly paranoid and discredited
presidency of Mbeki and to settle petty personal scores.
We should all hang our heads in shame.
I write this having just heard that the editor of this newspaper,
Mondli Makhanya, and its head of investigations, Jocelyn Maker, will
be arrested this week. Their crime is that they published a story
alleging that the Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala- Msimang,
screamed at hospital staff and drank huge amounts of booze while in
hospital for a shoulder operation.
The minister, the custodian of our nation's health, has denied none of
these allegations. This newspaper also published allegations that
Tshabalala- Msimang was a drunk and a thief. This story has not been
refuted by the minister nor any other government official.
Instead, the minister of Health has abused public funds by getting two
of her generals to publish wasteful, unintelligible advertisements in
various newspapers to allege that it is a crime to access personal
medical records. No one has said a word about the public interest.
Instead, the case was handed to the Western Cape's top detective.
The imminent arrest of Makhanya and Maker is nothing new in the
ignominy that is now the Mbeki regime. It has long been alleged that
Jacob Zuma, the ANC's deputy president, was investigated by the
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) under Bulelani Ngcuka, husband of
the current deputy president, because he dared dream of succeeding
Mbeki while the President did not wish it to be so.
I have always dismissed this allegation as conspiratorial bunkum. I am
not so sure anymore. Where once I would have asked Zuma's supporters
to show me the evidence, I am forced to ask Mbeki and his cronies to
show me the evidence that they did not indeed set the Scorpions on
Zuma's trail.
Of course, the worst abuse of state apparatus is playing itself out
today while we consider the fact that Makhanya and Maker will be
arrested, prosecuted and perhaps even jailed. That abuse is the
refusal by Mbeki to let the law take its course and have National
Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, an Mbeki confidante, arrested by
the Scorpions.
Mbeki went to extraordinary lengths to stop the current NPA head, Vusi
Pikoli, from arresting Selebi on corruption-related charges, despite a
warrant of arrest and search warrants being issued by magistrates and
judges.
But Mbeki went further. For more than a week he and his office lied to
the public and the parliamentary opposition about the existence of
such a warrant. These past two weeks they have been going to
extraordinary lengths to cover up this outrage.
The question has to be asked: is this the South Africa of Nelson
Mandela and Albert Luthuli? Did the heroes of June 1976 and the
veterans of the fires of the '80s lose out on schooling and normal
lives to be in a country where journalists are prosecuted as happened
under apartheid?
The Mbeki regime has been an unmitigated disaster from the onset.
But ineptitude  ranging from the failure to deal with HIV/Aids and
rampant crime to consorting with criminals such as Robert Mugabe  is
different from pure, unadulterated corruption such as we see unfolding
today in the Pikoli saga and now the persecution of Makhanya and
Maker.
These are steps into the worlds of Mobutu Sese Seko and Mugabe. Only
13 years into our democracy, Mbeki's Stalinist learnings are fully on
show: journalists and editors arrested and jailed; opponents jailed on
trumped-up charges; everyone in government living in fear that they
are being followed, watched and bugged.
How long before a bullet arrives for a pesky journalist or Jacob Zuma?
Remember, we used to say Mbeki would not interfere with the judiciary.
We were wrong.
The worst part of this whole outrage is that Makhanya and Maker could
go to jail. They will go to jail while good men and women stand and
watch. They will be jailed while Mandela and many others stand and
watch while the country they fought for so valiantly falls deeper into
the hands of a corrupt and power- mad coterie at the Union Buildings.
I am angry and I am afraid. But mostly I am ashamed. Ashamed and
embarrassed to call myself South African. Ashamed that in this country
we all keep quiet while evil is so routinely perpetuated by a bunch we
ourselves put into power.
When, one day, we open our eyes and our mouths, our children will not
have a country to live in. This country will be a Zimbabwe because we
allowed Mbeki and his cronies to rape it.
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| Re: Steeds oor Suid-Afrika [boodskap #115163 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #115155] |
Ma, 15 Oktober 2007 21:15  |
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Ferdi wrote:
> Rubriek in die Sunday Times. (Deur 'n lojale ANC-man, 'n held van die
> struggle.)
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Briljante artikel. Wens ek kon so skryf oor 'n tema wat my al meer as
'n week lank ernstig bedruk maak.
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| Re: Steeds oor Suid-Afrika [boodskap #115186 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #115155] |
Vr, 19 Oktober 2007 07:16 |
Annette
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Ag foei tog ja. Die mense wat wel praat en kla word nie deur die massas
ondersteun nie, omdat hulle nie dislojaal wil wees nie.
Die mense wat wel praat en kla word nie eers gehoor deur die briefskrywer
nie.
Die klagtes deur mense wat as voorbeelde genoem is, sal niks help nie.
Maar, bowenal, die mense wat behoort praat en kla, dws ANC ondersteuners,
sal stilbly om den brode.
Daar is slegs een manier om sulke optrede en gedrag te keer, en dit is as
die stemmende massas sorg dat daar nie een party is wat 'n volstrekte
meerderheid het nie.
As die regterlike skrywer, ipv dat hy lamenteer, self en almal wat hy kan
beïnvloed kry om nie meer vir die ANC te stem nie, dan eers sal ons 'n ware
demokrasie kan kry, en nie 'n Prez wat nou skielik ondersoek wil instel of
iemand vir sy pos geskik is nie. Dit is mos iets wat gedoen word in die
normale lewe voordat iemand aangestel word in 'n pos.
Janee sjym, en ek wonder hoe gaan dit afgaan as Onse Prez daar in Parys gaan
staan met 'n kleeeiiiiiiiin Springboktruitjie aan, met 'n pyp in die mond en
'n glas brandewyn in die hand.
Annette
"Ferdi" skryf in boodskap news:oan3h351ntv0apljm2tmhoi2jjh5hpa9jt@4ax.com...
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> Rubriek in die Sunday Times. (Deur 'n lojale ANC-man, 'n held van die
> struggle.)
> -----------------------------------
>
>
> Deafening silence as Mbeki and Co reduce South Africa to a state of
> fear
> Published:Oct 14, 2007
>
> Juctice Malala
>
> I am angry and I am afraid. I am deeply afraid for my country.
>
> The sound of silence has fallen over our country while the government
> of President Thabo Mbeki, in its anger and its shame over its numerous
> failures and acts of deceit, uses state security apparatus to go after
> every man and woman who dares to speak truth to power.
>
> While all this happens, the many good men and women in Cabinet, in
> government, in business, in the trade unions and in civil society,
> keep quiet. Where are the good men and women of the United Democratic
> Front? Where are the many good men and women of the SA Council of
> Churches, such as Brigalia Bam?
>
> They are silent. They are in agreement while the democracy they fought
> for is abused to protect the increasingly paranoid and discredited
> presidency of Mbeki and to settle petty personal scores.
>
> We should all hang our heads in shame.
>
> I write this having just heard that the editor of this newspaper,
> Mondli Makhanya, and its head of investigations, Jocelyn Maker, will
> be arrested this week. Their crime is that they published a story
> alleging that the Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala- Msimang,
> screamed at hospital staff and drank huge amounts of booze while in
> hospital for a shoulder operation.
>
> The minister, the custodian of our nation's health, has denied none of
> these allegations. This newspaper also published allegations that
> Tshabalala- Msimang was a drunk and a thief. This story has not been
> refuted by the minister nor any other government official.
>
> Instead, the minister of Health has abused public funds by getting two
> of her generals to publish wasteful, unintelligible advertisements in
> various newspapers to allege that it is a crime to access personal
> medical records. No one has said a word about the public interest.
> Instead, the case was handed to the Western Cape's top detective.
>
> The imminent arrest of Makhanya and Maker is nothing new in the
> ignominy that is now the Mbeki regime. It has long been alleged that
> Jacob Zuma, the ANC's deputy president, was investigated by the
> National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) under Bulelani Ngcuka, husband of
> the current deputy president, because he dared dream of succeeding
> Mbeki while the President did not wish it to be so.
>
> I have always dismissed this allegation as conspiratorial bunkum. I am
> not so sure anymore. Where once I would have asked Zuma's supporters
> to show me the evidence, I am forced to ask Mbeki and his cronies to
> show me the evidence that they did not indeed set the Scorpions on
> Zuma's trail.
>
> Of course, the worst abuse of state apparatus is playing itself out
> today while we consider the fact that Makhanya and Maker will be
> arrested, prosecuted and perhaps even jailed. That abuse is the
> refusal by Mbeki to let the law take its course and have National
> Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, an Mbeki confidante, arrested by
> the Scorpions.
>
> Mbeki went to extraordinary lengths to stop the current NPA head, Vusi
> Pikoli, from arresting Selebi on corruption-related charges, despite a
> warrant of arrest and search warrants being issued by magistrates and
> judges.
>
> But Mbeki went further. For more than a week he and his office lied to
> the public and the parliamentary opposition about the existence of
> such a warrant. These past two weeks they have been going to
> extraordinary lengths to cover up this outrage.
>
> The question has to be asked: is this the South Africa of Nelson
> Mandela and Albert Luthuli? Did the heroes of June 1976 and the
> veterans of the fires of the '80s lose out on schooling and normal
> lives to be in a country where journalists are prosecuted as happened
> under apartheid?
>
> The Mbeki regime has been an unmitigated disaster from the onset.
>
> But ineptitude - ranging from the failure to deal with HIV/Aids and
> rampant crime to consorting with criminals such as Robert Mugabe - is
> different from pure, unadulterated corruption such as we see unfolding
> today in the Pikoli saga and now the persecution of Makhanya and
> Maker.
>
> These are steps into the worlds of Mobutu Sese Seko and Mugabe. Only
> 13 years into our democracy, Mbeki's Stalinist learnings are fully on
> show: journalists and editors arrested and jailed; opponents jailed on
> trumped-up charges; everyone in government living in fear that they
> are being followed, watched and bugged.
>
> How long before a bullet arrives for a pesky journalist or Jacob Zuma?
> Remember, we used to say Mbeki would not interfere with the judiciary.
> We were wrong.
>
> The worst part of this whole outrage is that Makhanya and Maker could
> go to jail. They will go to jail while good men and women stand and
> watch. They will be jailed while Mandela and many others stand and
> watch while the country they fought for so valiantly falls deeper into
> the hands of a corrupt and power- mad coterie at the Union Buildings.
>
> I am angry and I am afraid. But mostly I am ashamed. Ashamed and
> embarrassed to call myself South African. Ashamed that in this country
> we all keep quiet while evil is so routinely perpetuated by a bunch we
> ourselves put into power.
>
> When, one day, we open our eyes and our mouths, our children will not
> have a country to live in. This country will be a Zimbabwe because we
> allowed Mbeki and his cronies to rape it.
>
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| Re: Steeds oor Suid-Afrika [boodskap #115189 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #115186] |
Vr, 19 Oktober 2007 10:28 |
Ferdi
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:16:40 +0200, "Annette" wrote:
> Ag foei tog ja. Die mense wat wel praat en kla word nie deur die massas
> ondersteun nie, omdat hulle nie dislojaal wil wees nie.
> Die mense wat wel praat en kla word nie eers gehoor deur die briefskrywer
> nie.
> Die klagtes deur mense wat as voorbeelde genoem is, sal niks help nie.
> Maar, bowenal, die mense wat behoort praat en kla, dws ANC ondersteuners,
> sal stilbly om den brode.
> Daar is slegs een manier om sulke optrede en gedrag te keer, en dit is as
> die stemmende massas sorg dat daar nie een party is wat 'n volstrekte
> meerderheid het nie.
> As die regterlike skrywer, ipv dat hy lamenteer, self en almal wat hy kan
> beïnvloed kry om nie meer vir die ANC te stem nie, dan eers sal ons 'n ware
> demokrasie kan kry, en nie 'n Prez wat nou skielik ondersoek wil instel of
> iemand vir sy pos geskik is nie.
En neem aan jy weet wie die RUBRIEK-skrywer (Juctice Malala) is?
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