Zuma must retract e-toll statement: DA

[CeeBee]

So, he went for 6)
Says nothing about the "thinking like Africans"-bit, though.

ai Jakob!
janee... if the white madam would dare say something like "don't think like an African!" all hell woulda broken loose, but of course its fine for JZ to say it...

at least we can prepare for some amusing variations on cartoons... bring it on Zapiro

spare a thought for poor Mac... jeez, that one must be so desparate for a job to have to keep up with the BS the ANC brass keeps giving him to feed out to us!

Maybe he should insist on proofreading everything JZ and cronies intend to say, save himself lots of crap.
maybe this was just a quick knee jerk spout-from-the-mouth thing

 

[Bern]

Saying that it was taken out of context, but then not really explaining how the context makes the statements any better is a bit if a fail in my book.

Kind of like me saying you are a ********, you know because you are generally not very nice and many people don't like you and then carrying on talking about how nice other people are. Then trying to say I didn't mean you are an *******, you took it out of context. Um the context makes it worse, not better.

 

[SmartKit]

ISSUED BY: THE PRESIDENCY

ATTENTION: NEWS EDITORS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

22 OCTOBER 2013

PRESIDENCY CORRECTS DISTORTIONS IN THE MEDIA

The Presidency has noted reports in certain media, suggesting that President Jacob Zuma insunuated that Africans were backward and that they should stop thinking like "Africans in Africa and accept that Gauteng roads were not like some national road in Malawi or Pietermaritzburg or Rustenberg."

The words have regrettably been taken out of context and blown completely out of proportion.

President Zuma yesterday, in his capacity as President of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), addressed the Gauteng ANC Manifesto Forum at the Wits University Great Hall in Johannesburg, where he remarked on a wide range of issues including policies of the ANC on the economy, the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment, youth employment, the National Development Plan and the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project, which among other things had necessitated the tolling of the roads.

In particular, the President said: "With regards to road construction, Gauteng has built many kilometres of new 8-10 lane freeways built at a cost of about R20 billion. This is more than our national roads budget for one year. The roads are to be tolled to pay back the money we borrowed to build the freeways. Our policy is that users should pay for extra government expenses."

President Zuma continued: "It is not fair to make the whole of South Africa pay for Gauteng's road use by taxing everyone's petrol more. We thank all citizens who have registered for the e-tolls so that we can continue to improve roads and boost economic growth in Gauteng."

The President then made the example that it was also not fair to expect Gauteng roads to be compared to roads in other towns such as "Pietermaritzburg, Rustenberg, Polokwane or any other town or national road in Malawi as this was Gauteng, the heartbeat of South Africa's economy and an international city of commerce and business".

The remarks were made in the broader context of South Africa achieving more in the past 19 years of freedom and democracy.

Enquiries: Mac Maharaj on 079 879 3203 or [email protected]

Issued by: The Presidency

Pretoria


Source : Ends /LN
Date : 22 Oct 2013 13:32

Screw you. Gauteng accounts for 50% of this country's tax, yet doesn't receive that portion of the budget in return. We fund national departments as much as all the other provinces combined. In the end Kwazulu-Natal receives as much funding for less taxation. They can pay for the damn highway that makes this all possible.

 

[marine1]

How anyone can vote ANC is beyond me.
God help us all

 

[grok]

How anyone can vote ANC is beyond me.
God help us all

Maybe Zuma should explain to us this 'African thinking' as opposed to non-African thinking.

Interesting that when the previous government came to the same conclusion that Africans think different they were called racist.

 

[koeks525]

If JZ had any intelligence, he would scrap the whole system and not make such stupid comments. Someone should teach him to think before speaking......