SA Politics Thread Part 10 : The GNU Has Crashed

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Vrotappel said:
The concept comes from Ancient Greece hence the adaptation of the ancient Greek term across multiple languages.

The Afrikaans and Dutch word is exactly the same. Thus it arrived with Jan.
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That went very well, in a couple of minutes we learnt more about democracy that we did in 30 years, all thanks to @wingnut771.
 
TheChamp said:
So there is no word for democracy in Afrikaans or English?
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English and Afrikaans are Teutonic languages. Their roots are Indo-European, the same as the much older Greek and Latin languages. It's the reason medical and legal students had to take Latin as a subject, so that their understanding of terms was reinforced by the origins of the meanings.

The Teutonic languages absorbed words from many languages. The word and concept of democracy are but one that were absorbed centuries ago.

There was no word or concept of democracy in the Bantu languages and both the word and concept were absorbed from the Teutonic languages brought to Africa in the last few centuries. Hence the new Pedi word, temokrasi. Written in the same Roman (Latin) alphabet as the Teutonic languages.

Democracy is dimokratia in Greek when written in the Latin alphabet and δημοκρατία when written in the Greek alphabet.
 
TheChamp said:
The kind of fallout that would happen if the DA were to leave the GNU, thankfully Mrs Beaumont would not tolerate the thought.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938520616233247018
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If Annie doesn't meet the requirements for the position, then yes there is a problem.. if she does and she has been doing a decent job then it would boil down to HR policies and whether those were flaunted or not.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Community Outreach Officer?

Unless HR policies were heavily flaunted for her to get the job, then I really can't see a huge issue here.
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My point was that a lot of livelihoods will suffer if the DA listens to some of their supporters and left the GNU, there must be a couple of DA comrades children and family members who are now meaningfully employed since the DA joined the GNU.

Hasty decisions that cost people jobs in this economy will not be good.
 
ToxicBunny said:
If Annie doesn't meet the requirements for the position, then yes there is a problem.. if she does and she has been doing a decent job then it would boil down to HR policies and whether those were flaunted or not.
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I imagine Mashatile would hold the views over that lotto tender. His family and friends are qualified so why can't they get the tender. Ditto the minister for HE with those seta appointments. Relations to power and powerful people are purely coincidental.
 
R13... said:
I imagine Mashatile would hold the views over that lotto tender. His family and friends are qualified so why can't they get the tender. Ditto the minister for HE with those seta appointments. Relations to power and powerful people are purely coincidental.
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There is a Sotho word, it's called bomenemene, it means hypocrisy in English.

Just thought @wingnut771 and everyone here might be interested.
 
Mariner said:
English and Afrikaans are Teutonic languages. Their roots are Indo-European, the same as the much older Greek and Latin languages. It's the reason medical and legal students had to take Latin as a subject, so that their understanding of terms was reinforced by the origins of the meanings.

The Teutonic languages absorbed words from many languages. The word and concept of democracy are but one that were absorbed centuries ago.

There was no word or concept of democracy in the Bantu languages and both the word and concept were absorbed from the Teutonic languages brought to Africa in the last few centuries. Hence the new Pedi word, temokrasi. Written in the same Roman (Latin) alphabet as the Teutonic languages.

Democracy is dimokratia in Greek when written in the Latin alphabet and δημοκρατία when written in the Greek alphabet.
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That's so eloquently put down it reminded me a little of Mr Facts Unlimited, hope he survived the Israel/ Iran war.
 
TheChamp said:
My point was that a lot of livelihoods will suffer if the DA listens to some of their supporters and left the GNU, there must be a couple of DA comrades children and family members who are now meaningfully employed since the DA joined the GNU.

Hasty decisions that cost people jobs in this economy will not be good.
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Just a few weeks ago .. VAT increase was a non -suffer issue for you. Why you care now ?
 
R13... said:
I imagine Mashatile would hold the views over that lotto tender. His family and friends are qualified so why can't they get the tender. Ditto the minister for HE with those seta appointments. Relations to power and powerful people are purely coincidental.
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They could possibly hold that view, but it would be misguided given the shenanigans involved to get the tender, and staff the seta boards.
 
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