Strikes

So this is getting worse and worse. Now even the soldiers are threatening to strike.

And all the white people rage against cosatu and teachers and nurses and the government, declaring it all wrong. Good for you. Sit in your ivory towers and throw cake at the masses. Stupid bloody bourgeoisie. Really stupid.

Let's be clear, the violence and intimidation and all that is bloody bestial, the only upside is the amount of rubber the cops are apparently using. Me, i'd rather have steel, make room for those who actually want to work. But this isn't about work, nor about salaries either. It's about expenses, and quality of life. And it's also about war. War of the elitist anc gang bosses, against everyone else. Remember: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The soon to be silent media has been vocal on a number of issues, like how truly screwed the matrics are. But that is the icing on the cake, and doesn't even begin to delve into the deeper issues at play here.

1. Many, if not most teachers do not support the strike. I would assume the same for nurses. Direct threats have been made against several schools that i know of, i would guess all. You cannot just make a phone threat against the school, the police can and will trace the numebr, and you will be arrested (a mate of mine got nailed once for trying to get a day off school). So how is it that every school in the country can get a threatening phone call, and nobody knows where it came from?
2. There is a concerted effort towards the intimidation and closure of every single school, with what appears to include scouts, communication, and teams of demonstrators who are ferried to schools where there is activity. The violence at schools, and again i infer hospitals too, is not being done (in all cases) by those who work there)but imported agent provocateurs and paid saboteurs.
3. These strikers are ANC voters. I cannot stress the importance of that enough. This is africa's shame, when the vote comes they'll vote anc, but they hate what the anc is doing to the coutry, but they vote it anyway. The anc cannot control it's own AGM's lately, never mind the angry workers.
4. This is not about teachers and nurses. It's about the tripartite alliance being torn to shreds by the ANC, who presumably think they will gain in some way from this. This is the far left rising against their supposed ally, who has done nothing but snub them since 94. 16 years it's taken for them to wake up, but now they are awake to the reality. The ANC fucked them over for votes. Pure and simple.
5. This is not about income. Most teachers earn more than i do (rightly so) and i am able to support a family and we're doing ok. This is about EXPENSES. You cannot talk about earnings when whatever number you name can be instantly halved by taxes. Then there is VAT, fuel taxes, emessions taxes, sin taxes, on everything. People who are earning a reasonable salary are not making ends meet, and THAT is the problem here.

If i earn R10 000 pm, at least 25% goes directly to taxes. For that, i will receive nothing but bad press about the government. There is no progress, i cannot sleep easy knowing that my taxes have installed water in some godforsaken location, because it hasn't. It should have, perhaps, but instead it's gone to ancyl leaders who have used it to buy supercars to drive around in the townships. And to everfeed the spawn of the elite families, look at zuma and co, all grossly overfed and over pampered in a hungry country. It is now going into a war against knowledge with the media bills, as bad if not worse than apartheid, and now we are going to waste BILLIONS bringing back the dead terrorists from all over north africa??

Look after the living, the dead can look after themselves.

This is what the problem is. SO many problems, and none of them being addressed. Those who are well paid to address these problems have become frightfully efficient at denials and obfuscations. Too busy setting up another slush fund to care about the pain that exists every day.

On a smaller level, the highways are the same story. People sit in 2 hour traffic to get to work, because of the inastallation of toll booths that will give nothing to the people who use that road. Where is the sense in this? It will only allow a few rich men to become richer, at the expense of everyone else in this country.

It is because we have forgotten God. That is why these things have happened. When we remember God, we remember others. When we forget God, we assume His place in our lives, living selfish, greedy, and essentially worthless existances.

(to pagans, muslims, jews, and other wierdos, i still love all of you. whether i think you are right or wrong is second to the fact that you have respect for God (ess/(s), and thus yourselves, and thus others around you. Keep your faith strong, and believe in love)

... i think i got that last bit right?

peace and love