THE Leftist politicians in South Africa delight in making controversial statements. And now the right wing has responded.
The author is unknown but this response is from a comment and debate on a News24 site:
Please explain the term “PREVIOUSLY DISADVANTAGED
Kindly make special reference to the following:
1. Who “disadvantaged” the black people of the interior Southern Africa before the (supposed) ‘belligerent’ white settlers moved inland in the mid-19th century?
What the settlers found was not hugely advanced infrastructures – deep mines, hospitals, vast libraries of written knowledge, imposing institutions of learning, etc.
No, as little as 170 years ago they found masses of black people (indigenous to the Southern tip of Africa) living on the fringes of the Stone age: primitive people dressed in skins, wielding sticks, dragging and carrying their meagre possessions around, since they had not discovered the wheel.
2. Ethiopia – a country that was never colonised is today one of the most desolate places on the planet! Who “disadvantaged” Ethiopia?
3. Compare Zimbabwe and Germany with each other and explain the differences. In 1945 Germany was, for all intents and purposes, flattened. Fifteen years later, West Germany was described as an “economic wonder”. Today it is fast becoming a global leader.
On the flip side, Zimbabwe’s people were handed one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a currency that was stronger than the US dollar at the time! What is the situation today? Competing with Ethiopia as the most desolate hell hole on the planet? Please explain.
Finally, I would suggest the following: The term “previously disadvantaged” is as much a fantasy as is the lunacy which threatens voters with the revenge of the ancestors.
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A father walks into a restaurant with his young son. He gives the young boy three one Rand coins to play with to keep him occupied.
Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realises the boy has swallowed the coins and starts slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up two of the coins but keeps choking. Looking at his son, the father panics, shouting for help.
A well-dressed, attractive and serious looking woman in a blue business suit is sitting at the coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants, takes hold of the boy’s testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last coin, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand.
Releasing the boy’s testicles, the woman hands the one Rand coin to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her, saying, “I’ve never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?”
“No,” the woman replied, “I’m with the South African Revenue Service.”
(Thanks KCG)
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A man died and went to Hereafter. As he stood in front of the gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those clocks?”
A functionary: “Those are lie-clocks. Everyone who has ever been on earth has a lie-clock. Every time you lie, the hands on your clock move.”
“Oh,” said the man. “Whose clock is that?”
“That’s Mother Teresa’s,” replied St Peter. “The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.”
“Incredible,” said the man. “And whose clock is that one?”
St Peter responded: “That’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abraham told only two lies in his entire life.”
“Where’s Jacob Zuma’s clock?” asked the man.
St Peter replied: “This is a warmer part of the hereafter and so we are using it as a ceiling fan.”
