EFF manifesto serves only to hoodwink electorate
EFF
The EFF wants public reps and servants to forfeit their pension benefits if found guilty of corruption… Presumably, they know that it can only be the state’s contribution and not the entire pension benefit. The EFF should add that the resignation of these officials (which allows access to benefits) should not be accepted and they must be fired.
Malema wants the Public Protector in his pocket, just like all politicians. | Edmac
An exaggerated EFF manifesto presented to a gullible audience. These were just empty words used as an election ploy. When will the electorate learn that they are merely being hoodwinked? Once the party gets the desired seats, that is the end of most of the promises and the masses forget.
Malema has tarnished the reputation of Shamila Batohi without a shred of evidence. Being a typical bully, he knows that most Indians are pacifists so he continues to attack them. Can he for once play the race card based on fact, by giving us a breakdown (according to race groups) of all public officials and persons in charge whose departments, at all three levels of government, have been implicated in theft and corruption?
BLF
How dare you mock the death of the children at Hoërskool Driehoek. The very same can happen to your children and when it happens it becomes a racial issue, not so?
BLF’s Maasdorp has to go to jail. This is his second serious racist offence in the past few years and he cannot be allowed to remain free. He rejoices in the death of white schoolchildren and previously said he had “Aspirations to kill white people”. Is this not far worse than Penny Sparrow’s rant? Do different laws apply to the BLF and EFF? | Graham Rice
The BLF’s racist comments on the death of schoolchildren is absolutely disgusting. This needs to be swiftly handled by the Human Rights institute.
I am extremely disappointed that some black individuals and the BLF spokesperson can make such insensitive comments following the tragedy at Hoërskool Driehoek…
ODDS AND ENDS
Campus grief. The annual silly season has started on campus again. Authorities are given ample warnings, yet law enforcement just stands by and watches the rampant destruction. Do they need reminding that their job is to uphold the law, not be witnesses to the breaking of the law? Students should also show some intellect (they are wanting to attend university, after all). The destruction of public or private property won’t win them any bargaining chips. Peaceful protests and negotiating dialogue are needed. You can’t burn your library down, then complain there are no books. Does anyone remember the go-slows and sit-ins of the mid-1980s? Then we had to deal with the notorious Security Branch.
Best kept secret is Commercial Road Home Affairs. You will wait in line for an hour or so outside but then applicants are admitted into the office in batches of about 50 people at one time. Once you’re in, the process is very well organised and quick and you’ll be out within 45 minutes. I received my passport within five days and smart ID in two weeks. Other Home Affairs offices could learn from them. Well done to the polite and efficient employees of Commercial Road Home Affairs.
Subcontinent cricket has hit an all-time low, especially with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The results speak volumes about the poor performances by these three countries, especially away from home. Just ask Pakistan, the latest team to visit our shores. Getting thrashed 3-0 in the Test series, then losing the ODIs and now the T20s. All down to poor captain decisions and pressure. At the Wanderers, all the Pakistan skipper needed to do was keep the score down in their last over. But putting in a bowler who had just been hit for 30 runs in their last over is typical schools cricket.