Democracy

Democracy can best be described as 2 wolves and a sheep dicussing what is for dinner - unknown

Democracy is supposed to be the best way of balancing opposing forces. It's also a popularity contest. Someow these 2 ideals are by their very nature incompatible.

We should choose our leaders, and they should act in our interests, and we should all live happily ever after. But no, it doesn't work like that. In america, the money controls both sides, so it's hobsons choice, ie none at all. The money always wins. In south africa, we have the anc, and everyone else. Every 4 years they fabricate another win, and continue to do as they please.

I don't joke about fabricating either, the number of anc votes has been consistent over the last 3 elections, despite massive increases in support for everyone else. The only plausable explanation lies in our open border policy, and the millions of northern africans invading us annually.

As to accountability, there is none. As the text of TIME FOR TRUTH states, several ministers should have been fired, years ago, and yet they hang on to their posts in a similar fashion to royal families. Minister of health, lied about past criminal convictions. Get this: she stole from patients while working as a nurse. Then lied about it to south africa. Mbeki knew, he lied too. She has created policy that kills millions of poor people, while advocating garlic and potatoes. She is a known drinker, and people have lost their jobs over her demands for alcohol IN A HOSPITAL BED. Then she gets a liver transplant. Now an old fat woman who is a drinker would never be allowed a transplant under normal conditions, but we are assured that procedure was followed. Yes, which procedure i wonder? I think it's rather bitter irony that this is the minister of health. Something very Orwellian about this.

Almost as much as the national police commissioner who was also the head of interpol, first admitting to being friends with a known crime boss ... AND SEEING NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT! Then the man who got a warrant of arrest against him gets fired, wthin the week, only to have his successor confirm the case! Also (shit i'm NOT making this up) that the president and several cabinet ministers knew full well of the accusations against this chief policeman. Mbeki had stated that nobody had informed him of any wrongdoing, and if they had, he would have taken notice.
A BLATANT LIE.

Ok i'm getting sidetracked here. The anc is the party with most voters. They say ho becomes president. And they are able to approve or deny any parlimentary issues.
They do not listen to anyone else, nor even pretend to.

It takes supreme court orders to get these people to answer parlimentary questions, yet they (again blatantly lie) that the questions had been answered.

I can not even stomach zuma. But it must be said, there is one issue on which we agree. BRING ME MY FUCKING MACHINE GUN. And i don't care what the zulu for that is.

Western civilisation has the advantage of having taken rulers out into the streets, and shot. And despite all else, modern rulers know this, it keeps them getting TOO out of hand. Africa desperately needs that, starting in zim, and working outwards.

Democracy needs that, but they are hardly about to teach it to kids, something they'd be far better knowing than any pledge acknowledging past injustices. What south africa has politically is something europe left behind several centuries ago, and that is tribalism. And the biggest tribe wins,to the detriment of all others.

We (any educated people) try teach them (those that do not know) balance, but sadly africa is too brutal. And the common man is poor, downtrodden and uneducated. This suits the zumas of this world. They know that such people are easy to manipulate, and i know a lot of people who do not understand the concept of secret ballot. What they do understand is their neighbour, who burned to death for having attended an opposition rally. This happens here, and as hards it for you foreigners to conceive of, it is as hard for us to conceive otherwise.

God bless africa. We need it.