Where are our Priorities?????

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The controversial painting has now been defaced.

2 guys (a white & a black) were arrested.

The ANC’s court case is going ahead on Thursday to force the gallery to remove the artwork.

- A 17 year-old mentally challenged girl was gang raped & the video went viral. No one marched.
- An 8-year-old girl was raped by a 15 year-old boy & her eyes gouged out. No one marched.
- Entire provinces are without school text books - it’s almost June. No one marched.
- Our imminent police chief is a gangster & has brought our police service to its knees. No one marched.
- Our country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. No one marched.
- Our democracy is going down the toilet but no one marches.

But our country goes hysterical over a painting! We threaten lawsuits, protests & violent reprisals.

Where are our priorities???

What are we thinking??????!!!!

We have now proven beyond doubt that our collective mentality doesn’t rise above the waist.
 
- A 17 year-old mentally challenged girl was gang raped & the video went viral. No one marched. - no whites involved
- An 8-year-old girl was raped by a 15 year-old boy & her eyes gouged out. No one marched. - no whites involved
- Entire provinces are without school text books - it’s almost June. No one marched. - no whites involved
- Our imminent police chief is a gangster & has brought our police service to its knees. No one marched. - no whites involved

That's why.
 
Succession battle crippling ANC - Gigaba

Johannesburg - The ANC's obsession with succession battles is crippling its ability to deliver, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Friday.

"In the recent years we have become so inwardly focused that our people should be wondering if they still matter at all," Gigaba told the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) national congress in Kempton Park.

"Factionalism is slowly and seriously crippling our movement and distracting our attention from our historic mandate. We are fixated with succession battles."

Leadership squabbles were detracting the ANC from the urgent business of the day. Gigaba called for unity and discipline.

Succession debates had been dominating the media in the lead-up to the ANC's 53rd national conference in Mangaung in December.

Gigaba said militancy had always been a part of the ANC's revolutionary struggle, but it could not allow militant behaviour that was alien to the party.

"The militancy ... has always been required to enrich the struggle. We can therefore not allow opportunists and demagogues to hijack, to advocate and perpetuate alien behaviour within the movement."

This had "manifested itself in various ways including some shockingly crude, disrespectful and un-ANC remarks made in the public domain".

Prior to Gigaba taking the podium, the NUM passed a resolution to support the ANC's leadership elected in Polokwane in 2007 at Mangaung.

The NUM is a key constituent of the Congress of SA Trade Unions, which is part of the tripartite alliance, along with the ANC and the SA Communist Party.

- SAPA
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Succession-battle-crippling-ANC-Gigaba-20120525-3
 
bekdik said:
But our country goes hysterical over a painting! We threaten lawsuits, protests & violent reprisals.

Where are our priorities???

What are we thinking??????!!!!

We have now proven beyond doubt that our collective mentality doesn’t rise above the waist.
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Not to downplay all the problems we need to address (which are a lot) but the actual handling of this issue, in terms of a future precedence, is actually really important ever since the ANC took a shot at it. The case in essence would lead to a determination of how far freedom of speech can go, as well as (to an extent) what constitutes racism and if 'racist' claims can be selectively made. People have been going on and on about how this is a pathetic thing to dominate the headlines but really it could be the spark that determines a lot of what people can and can't do in the future.

Its something a democracy needs to determine and other countries have gone through similar (not specifically a painting but some sort of medium) determinations of what constitutes freedom of speech. I think people are thinking too narrowly about this issue and the consequences a ruling could have.
 
My opinion is that the ANC including the president would have been generally upset by the artists entire collection but the spear was the limit or excuse (I'm not sure which) with which they could retaliate for the collection.

It seem everyone else falls into hardliner groups the author mentions.refferring to the moneyweb article.
 
satanboy said:
so e-tolling was a white issue....
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No one marched against the e-tolling.
COTASU organised the marches around anti labour broking and threw the e-tolling into the mix to try garner support.

It took a white man using legal means to stop the e-tolling.
 
Very true but where do we draw the line ?
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I don't see how we can.

The courts are there to decide on defamation and slander/libel - apart from that people should just grow a pair.

Sticks and stones etc.
 
daveza said:
I don't see how we can.

The courts are there to decide on defamation and slander/libel - apart from that people should just grow a pair.

Sticks and stones etc.
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I couldn't agree more:-)
 
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