- I watched most of President Thabo Mbeki's hour-long interview
after his opening of parliament speech. I've taped the rest and will watch
it later. It is too depressing for words.
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- Mbeki talks a lot like Clinton used to. Flowery stuff
that had little or no meaning. Compare that to George Bush? At least that
man can answer questions and give reasonable answers. But our President?
A certified moron I tell you - a socialist one at that.
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- One journalist said he counted 14 instances where Government
was going to intervene in business instead of letting the market forces
take control. He asked Mbeki why Mbeki wasn't letting capitalism loose
to do its job? Mbeki waffled on, talking about ports, and about this and
about that and never answered the question.
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- The man is a complete idiot - of this I am now convinced.
I used to think he was bright, but now I realise that Mandela was far cleverer
than him. There wasn't a single question by a black or white journalist
that he could give a straight answer to.
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- I thought the whites would give him tough questions and
the blacks give him easy ones. In fact, all of them gave him pointed questions
- and the results, for Mbeki, were in my opinion disastrous. He answered,
merely so as to waste time. I never saw a straight or credible answer to
any question. In fact, some of the most pointed questions came from the
blacks and they had Mbeki floored. Everyone was just nice and didn't make
a fool of him because, he is, after all, the President. But I doubt if
any of them were satisfied with his answers.
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- When asked why they don't change the laws to allow skilled
labour INTO the country (where we are short of people) - he waffled on
and on without saying anything substantive. Clearly he has no real interest
in bringing skilled people IN, nor in STOPPING skilled people leaving.
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- Another most embarrassing moment was this. He said in
his parliament speech, "People would be amazed if they knew who was
behind the crime wave." Then, Tim Modise, a black journalist, asked
him straight out: "OK, tell us who is behind it?" And then Mbeki
waffled and said the Police knew but he didn't and then squirmed his way
out of it!? The man can't give a straight answer to ANYTHING! He makes
wild flipping claims which has the country on edge and then he suddenly
pretends he never said it! It was the same thing when he was grilled over
the crime statistics and why the Government has suppressed crime statistics
for over a year. Why? Are things getting better or worse? People want to
know? And the answer? Mbeki says: "The Police need to count the crime
statistics properly..." .... and this is supposed to be an answer?
What sort of garbage answer is that? Is crime going up or down? Yes or
No? He never answered that question...
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- Furthermore, I watched his body language. He almost NEVER
looked anyone straight in the eye or gave a straight answer - even to the
simplest questions.
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- Another embarrassing example, was the school feeding
project - an ANC project. When asked why the kids weren't getting food
as PER POLITICAL PROMISES - he then waffled on about how tenders were put
out and people won the tenders and then, because they tendered too low,
they couldn't deliver. So my question is: Why didn't they fire the idiots
who ran the tenders and didn't check things properly and why didn't they
nail the companies who tendered falsely, and then give the business to
those who can? Don't tell me that we are incapable of delivering BREAD
daily!? It would seem simple and logical? Nope, not to Mbeki - lots of
long-winded stories and weak excuses about why kids still weren't being
fed...
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- It is a sin, that a country as large as this is run by
such people who lack initiative, drive, knowledge or the ABILITY to accomplish
even the SIMPLEST of things - be it giving food to children in schools.
The weak, pathetic excuses I heard, and the endless waffling wherein he
can speak for minutes at a time without actually saying anything - leaves
me amazed. BTW, our minister of health is also highly skilled at that.
They can speak for ages while not actually saying anything.
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- This Government of ours couldn't run a piss-up in a brewery.
Now, compare that, to some of the things I've been reading about George
Bush. Bush has been President of America for a couple of weeks. I've been
reading of what he's said, done, etc, etc. Bush has done more work in America
in the last 2-3 weeks than the ANC has done in YEARS. I was especially
impressed with the complete revamp of the US Military which is under way.
Here we have a government so inept that they can't build a school AND have
electricity put in or a road built to reach it. They resettle people on
land only to find that the land is empty and nobody bothered to build houses,
roads or provide water. These are the people with the big mouths who kept
saying how much they could do for the nation. But instead, we sit with
a President who can't explain why the massive machinery of Government,
backed by HIM, can't deliver BREAD!
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- There is no question in my mind that we are governed
by idiots who haven't got the faintest clue how to run ANYTHING. I doubt
they could run a Fish & Chips shop!
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- One thing that I did like though, was the way the journalists
questioned him. I really liked their questions. All of them - they were
flipping good. They were straight to the point, well worded, polite, etc.
I thought their efforts were good. They asked all the questions that people
in this country, across the spectrum would like to have answers to. And,
I'm sure we all ended up knowing no more than before the interview.
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- Not only is Mbeki an idiot, but he's also insincere.
He had no real interest in answering the nation's questions. But what can
one expect from a Socialist, eh? They're all liars!
Comment
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- From DuamutefAnkhRhem@aol.com
2-14-1
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- The average Black person would have found Mr. Lamprecht's
essay as offensive or racist. I am a Black person (a Black Nationalist)
and I didn't find Lamprecht's words offensive nor racist. He was telling
the truth. If I lived in South Africa I would be saying the same thing
about President Thabo Mbeki, and I know a lot of Blacks in South Africa
probably don't like Mbeki either. I can go on and on about Mandela and
how, in my opinion, isn't a real hero at all. The media has you thinking
Nelson Mandela was some kind of saviour. I would ask folks What did Nelson
Mandela do exactly to improve South Africa? Since Mandela (according to
my research) nothing in South Africa has really changed, because South
Africa is still (economically) ruled be whites (British Oppenheimers).
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- Mandela was a puppet - Thabo Mbeki is a puppet. But history
will never tell you about real African leaders who helped bring change,
great Black intellectuals such as Amilcar Cabral (African Revolutionary
and Theorist), Patrice Lumumba 1925- 1961 (president of Congo), Kwame Nkrumah
(who helped Ghana to be the first independant African nation), Frantz Fanon
(psychologist, author of the classic book 'The Wretched of the Earth'),
Kimaathi and the Mau Mau of Kenya, the great scholar and historian Cheikh
Anta Diop, and many others. You'll be surprised to know that the majority
of African Americans have never heard of these people.
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