Zuma disappoints Youth Day crowds
Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma walked into an almost empty Orlando Stadium on Thursday to speak at celebrations commemorating 35 years since the Soweto uprising on 16 June 1976.
Flanked by bodyguards, police and African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema, Zuma made his way to the stage on a red carpet stretched across the field, which by that time had been littered with rubbish.
He was just over three-and-a-half hours behind schedule, ….......
Earlier in the day the stadium was almost filled to capacity.
Earlier a woman expressed her annoyance at having to wait.
“Where is he? He is late,” she said, clicking her tongue. “It's cold and we must wait. I know he's a busy man, but these children are waiting for him. It's not fair.”
Freedom Stemela, 15, from Ingqayizivele Secondary School, said: “We are tired of sitting here, we are here from the morning.”
“I'm more than irritated,” echoed Lucky Maphosa, 19, from Phomolong Secondary School.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zuma-disappoints-youth-day-crowds-1.1084428
The above excerpts describe the attitude of our politicians to their voters.
There can be only two explanations for this insulting behaviour towards those who put them into them power.
1.Simple contempt for the people who spent valuable time and money to get to the stadium.
2.The other possibility is that “time” is an abstract concept that did not form part of the pre-colonial languages and means nothing to those who view these languages as being equal to written languages.
The fact that the expression “African time” is so common suggests that the latter explanation is the correct one.
Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma walked into an almost empty Orlando Stadium on Thursday to speak at celebrations commemorating 35 years since the Soweto uprising on 16 June 1976.
Flanked by bodyguards, police and African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema, Zuma made his way to the stage on a red carpet stretched across the field, which by that time had been littered with rubbish.
He was just over three-and-a-half hours behind schedule, ….......
Earlier in the day the stadium was almost filled to capacity.
Earlier a woman expressed her annoyance at having to wait.
“Where is he? He is late,” she said, clicking her tongue. “It's cold and we must wait. I know he's a busy man, but these children are waiting for him. It's not fair.”
Freedom Stemela, 15, from Ingqayizivele Secondary School, said: “We are tired of sitting here, we are here from the morning.”
“I'm more than irritated,” echoed Lucky Maphosa, 19, from Phomolong Secondary School.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zuma-disappoints-youth-day-crowds-1.1084428
The above excerpts describe the attitude of our politicians to their voters.
There can be only two explanations for this insulting behaviour towards those who put them into them power.
1.Simple contempt for the people who spent valuable time and money to get to the stadium.
2.The other possibility is that “time” is an abstract concept that did not form part of the pre-colonial languages and means nothing to those who view these languages as being equal to written languages.
The fact that the expression “African time” is so common suggests that the latter explanation is the correct one.
