[Opinion] Zuma: Going the full Mugabe

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Like all South Africans, I woke up this morning to great lamentations and gnashings of teeth about president Zuma’s decision to, um, redeploy minister of finance Nhlanhla Nene. All commentators agreed it was a shockingly bad move. Most speculated it had something to do with Mr. Nene’s determination to control spending and block projects that seem dear to the presidential heart – the purchase of SAA Airbuses through mysterious third parties, for instance, or the fiscally suicidal Russian nuclear power deal.

But as of this writing, nobody is paying much attention to the speech Zuma made immediately after his fateful move against Nene. This is a pity, because it was an extraordinary address, delivered without benefit of the written material over which Zuma so frequently stumbles. This time, he looked his audience in the eye and spoke off the cuff for fifty-odd minutes. And what he said was….well. In his own estimation, it was “most historic.” One got the impression that the president felt he had crossed a threshold, and needed to explain himself.

His story began with the birth of humankind in Africa, proceeded to the evils of colonialism and slavery, and ended with a lecture on the absolute necessity for full economic freedom. (Last I checked, this was EFF terrain, but Zuma is clearly moving to occupy it.) Nhlanhla Nene was not mentioned by name, but there were several veiled references to Africans who don’t know who they are and might not even realize they are serving the enemy. Africans who don’t understand what true freedom means, and are thus doomed to dance to the tune of those who hold economic power.
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http://politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/zuma-going-the-full-mugabe
 
The writing is no longer on the wall...

This has now become a reality. Zuma has single-handedly destroyed this country, and I no longer want to be apart of it. Canada is looking quite nice, cold weather and all.

And to all those who get bitter when anyone mentions leaving and rant on about "staying and making this a better place... blah blah blah", well... How is that working for you hmmm?
 
Thanks for posting this - it is both edifying and deeply disturbing

Zuma: “I am not a businessman or a professor,” he quips, “but I am rebelling against (the idea that) what determines the value of a commodity is the law of supply and demand. I am against that definition. The value of a commodity is the labour time taken in production of that commodity. That’s what determines the value of a commodity.”
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Rian Malan: The East Germans once priced their copper according to this Marxist formula, concluding that the labour value of socialist copper was 18 times higher than the world price as determined by the capitalist law of supply and demand. And then struggled to understand why nobody wanted to buy their copper. Hopefully Zuma will be more successful at amending the laws of nature.
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Sort of the speech one expected from him when he is not trying to read from a piece of paper, hence the 'polite' silence.
 
I suppose Zuma blames Whites for Nkandla too. Everything bad was done by whites. Its all beginning to make sense now, Africa is the biggest continent, one can bath to avoid HIV, value of commodity determined by labour,umm that's Nkandla I think. We have a new level of stupidity now.
 
Busy right now drafting up revised SP lists and terms for adjustment for the new year.
Customers in for a big shock.

Bet everyone is doing the same.

Another good story to tell :wtf:
 
Enemy : Whites

Problem : White capital

Resolution : massive corruption.

Sounds just like mugabe 2.0
 
Do we applaud Zuma’s speech or stand up and start screaming about, say, about the appalling stupidity of pulling a move that would inevitably slash the value of the rand even as we negotiate the purchase of millions of tons of dollar-denominated maize to feed our drought-striken poor?
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Driving their own self-destruction. Kinda sad if you think about it.
 
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