Death Promoted

[kilo39]

"The problem is you have repeated a lie to the point that you believe it yourself," Mseleku said, on the belief that government over-emphasised nutrition.

"The minister has never said garlic and lemon are better than apples, bananas and spinach."
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"There is this notion that traditional medicine is some quack thing practised by primitive people... unfortunately 80 percent of our people don't care about 'scientifically proven'," said Tshabalala-Msimang.

"We cannot negate what we are, what our people are. Our duty as government is to... put in resources to make sure these medicines work."
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Mseleku said an emphasis on nutrition was also a strategy to ensure the health system could cope, as the challenges faced by the health system such as lack of capacity and human resources were "not peculiar to HIV/Aids".

I have not over-emphasised nutrition - Manto August 26 2006

600/1000 deaths a day is good - so the health system can cope. What is wrong with this picture?

 

[jontyB]

OMG

Do these people even realise what they're saying?

 

[nocilah]

must be honest - i couldnt care less anymore.

its the same and always will be same... so yeah woteva.

 

[LabAnimal]

well - at the rate they are miss-educating their own people, there will be very few of their own kind left in a few years time, - wonder if they have looked at it this way...

 

[Freshy-ZN]

Let their pool of voters drop like flies if thats want they want.

 

[JStrike]

She really seems to be one of the few ministers that actually is an idiot (I am not talking about some stupid statement here or there, or a minister that you do not like. She seems to be a verifiable idiot)

 

[LabAnimal]

not to say too much about what i do... but... Where i work, i have met some children white, indian, and black, babies from 1 to 10 year olds living with HIV - its really sad, not just because their lives are so short & heavily medicated, but because some do not have parants left to care for them, and those that still do will loose their parants to HIV/AIDS sooner or later.

So yea, government, you do your garlic and lemon thing, wile your nation dies mostly due to your pathetic stupidity. You are killing the very people you need to keep you in control of this country. And as they say "Our Children is our Future" What future as they often don't get past the age of 10 or 15.

 

[TELESPHORE]

Why should she care. Looking at the attitude of most of the people in this forum, life and the afterlife is of no significance. Manto is going to get her pension and live happily in luxury until she dies. Why should she be worried whom she condemned to death? She is living her live happily like most in this forum suggests one should live.

 

[kilo39]

Why should she care. Looking at the attitude of most of the people in this forum, life and the afterlife is of no significance. Manto is going to get her pension and live happily in luxury until she dies. Why should she be worried whom she condemned to death? She is living her live happily like most in this forum suggests one should live.

You take these things too seriously TELESPHORE - most argument/discussion on this forum is from an intellectual standpoint - not necessarily the implicit beliefs of individual forumites.

She really seems to be one of the few ministers that actually is an idiot (I am not talking about some stupid statement here or there, or a minister that you do not like. She seems to be a verifiable idiot)

If only this was so simple; Manto is executing Thabo's script - in agreement with all members of the party - all are guilty by implication - Manto does not exist in a vacuum. And - further - anybody that votes for them - votes for all their policies - including this one.

 

[Gnome]

And - further - anybody that votes for them - votes for all their policies - including this one.

The problem is the majority of voters that do vote for them are poor, uneducated and uninformed. All they see and hear is what the party tells them, and that is that they have rescued them from "Apartheid" and that they will rescue them from their lives of poverty. When you've been to the area's where people live in poverty you realize that they don't have any information as to what happens in this country. They only care about the day to day: What will I eat today? I have to go get water today.

I don't even think the goverment cares about education and health all that much, seems to me they only care about themselves and staying power as long as possible (forever?).

 

[kilo39]

When you've been to the area's where people live in poverty you realize that they don't have any information as to what happens in this country. They only care about the day to day: What will I eat today? I have to go get water today.

It seems radio and tv penetration is 60-70% with very little access to newspapers - and practically zero internet. As big a problem is radio and newspapers being government mouthpieces - and very little access to independent media - we still live in a communist country with government control of media through their monopolies of tv and licencing and the internet fiasco. They like it this way. And with the change in the media laws this is only going to get better/worse.

Graph here of media penetration