ANC mayor recommends Durban Harbour should be closed to stop minerals from leaving South Africa

[Urist]

 

[ubercal]

iam speechless

 

[Bewlen]

Ag f#k tog

 

[Fuzzbox]

The DUMB is strong with that one.
30% at school and this is the best the ANC has to offer.
EISH.

 

[SoldierMan]

But selling it to China I bet will be just fine. China is not your friend they serve their own interests.
Another ANC idiot ruining this country.

Like Zambia, Sri Lanka also handed over port to China to pay off debt

 

[Eniigma]

ANC mayor recommends Durban Harbour should be closed to stop minerals from leaving South Africa

The executive mayor of the City of Ekurhuleni and ANC Ekurhuleni regional chairperson Mzwandile Masina has proposed the closure of Durban Harbour to stop minerals from leaving the country.

Masina said on Twitter: “To get our full independence from Western Imperialists we must close down the Durban Harbour so that no minerals leave this country.”

I fully support this motion.
At least then my route to and from work will be so much quieter without having to deal with the trucks trying to get into the container terminal.
Though we probably wouldn't be able to get the raw materials for our produts, so it would a short lived bit of peace.

 

[Zoomzoom]

There are moments when I resort to Forrest Gump.

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[AstroTurf]

I agree for "recycled" copper...

 

[konfab]

Wakanda was isolated from the world for centuries. This is how South Africa will become Wakanda again.

 

[Vrotappel]

If we could export the dumb we would be the richest nation in the world.

 

[Tokolotshe]

If we could export the dumb we would be the richest nation in the world.

I can't flag this as a like and laugh at the same time. So ...

 

[gottagoon]

We're surrounded by ANC geniuses. Extremely clever people

Nah

 

[gottagoon]

Anyone that blindly supports the ANC is either entirely stupid or just another fool.

Or...a piggy that is not full enough yet.
Or a patient piggy that is simply waiting for his snout to dip into yummy munney.

 

[MrGray]

It scares the hell out of me that people so genuinely stupid and ignorant seem to be running the country. This kind of thing makes that Idiocracy movie look like an optimistic documentary. Even worse is that both these leaders and most of their supporters have zero conception of how utterly idiotic they are.

 

[ConfusedR]

......and there are a lot of these "30% people" out there.

 

[lowriderza]

You voted for him, what is wrong with you Ekurhuleni people?

In our defence there is a lot of dust in the air, our water is rubbish and I suspect there's a bit of inbreeding going on. I swear I aimed away from them when I voted but I might have missed.

 

[Tokolotshe]

......and there are a lot of these "30% people" out there.

Then you also have the speshul class that bought the paper before the time and got 30%.

 

[Arthur]

All these obviously preposterous and ridiculous utterances by black politicians lead me to wonder whether there might not be a style of rhetoric in black culture that whites completely miss because they take it literally when it is meant figuratively to make a more tangential point.

Most cultures have modes of speech that should not be parsed in a narrow literal sense, as anyone familiar with literature knows.

I suspect this mayor might simply be using an African idiomatic and rhetorical style while speaking in English. His black audience knows he doesn't literally mean close the port and stop mineral exports, but perhaps saying that reconfiguring the ownership structures requires bold and even dramatic action that will displease the few (bourgeoisie) and please the many (proletariat).

It's hyperbolic, figurative, and coded.

For that reason I'm not inclined to take his statement literally, because it's not meant that way, but it sure is fun (he thinks to himsel) to see the bourgeoisie get a rise and knot their knickers...

 

[Jopie Fourie]

All these obviously preposterous and ridiculous utterances by black politicians lead me to wonder whether there might not be a style of rhetoric in black culture that whites completely miss because they take it literally when it is meant figuratively to make a more tangential point.

Most cultures have modes of speech that should not be parsed in a narrow literal sense, as anyone familiar with literature knows.

I suspect this mayor might simply be using an African idiomatic and rhetorical style while speaking in English. His black audience knows he doesn't literally mean close the port and stop mineral exports, but rather that reconfiguring the ownership structures requires bold action that will displease the few (bourgeoisie) and please the many (proletariat).

For that reason I don't take his statement literally.

Might be.

Wonder what they then would have in store for us when it comes to EWC, NHI, Appropriations and more, if things like this is meant figuratively...

 

[gottagoon]

Well, I swore I wouldn't start a new thread again. I seem to miss current ongoing one's.

BUT...at last tomorrow 15 October 2019 Jacob Zuma is going to have his first day in court. Yayyyyy.

Someone's gotta start the thread
Go for it one of you