Posted on 02/13/2015 9:19:23 AM PST by MNDude
(Reuters) - "State of Chaos", was how one South African newspaper described the images of police and politicians trading blows at the opening of parliament, a damning assessment of the country's democracy twenty years after apartheid.
President Jacob Zuma walked down the red carpet outside parliament in Cape Town on Thursday evening as a brass band blasted out South Africa's national freedom anthem, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, and cannons fired off a 21-gun salute.
But the pomp and ceremony was short-lived.
Zuma had barely started his State of the Nation address inside parliament when lawmakers from the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) interrupted him to ask about longstanding allegations of corruption in a $23 million state-funded security upgrade to his rural home in Nkandla.
Quivering with anger, Speaker Baleka Mbete told the EFF and its firebrand leader Julius Malema to stop asking questions. When they refused, she ordered them to be removed, prompting a brawl in which several people were injured.
Zuma was eventually able to deliver his speech but not until lawmakers from the main opposition Democratic Alliance had walked out in protest against armed security guards and police entering the chamber.
"It was meant to be a solemn annual event in the life of our nation ... the continuation of a journey Nelson Mandela began in 1994," political analyst Ranjeni Munusamy wrote in a column for the Daily Maverick, a leading online political newspaper.
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Yeah
The joke is, “what’s the difference between Zimbabwe and South Africa?”, answer: “about 10 years”
not really, we are more likely to get a Hillary-Jeb Unity ticket
Today.
“When the “white people” were forced out, it left them to their own devices. How’s that going for them?”
It worked out great for Detoilet!/sarc
“Freeeeeeeeeeee Nelson Mandela.
Freeeeeeeeeeeee Nelson Mandela”
The far left EFF are Marxists.
They make the ANC look centrist.
Julius Malema is the South African version of Greek’s Alexis Tsipras.
He’s a radical leftist who appeals to the same kind of voters as Tsipras does - people who feel left out by the South Africa of the past twenty years.
The worst kind of people are demagogues who know nothing about economics and keeping a nation prosperous.
South African is slowly going back to the way the White man found it
EFF and ANC's disagreements are just a matter of shades of grey. They both want to rid the country of the white "invaders", even if it means killing them. Both Malema and Zuma have been taped leading rousing courses of an old ANC song that encouraged people to go out and kill whites. EFF wants to do it now, while the ANC seems to want to milk as much out of them as they can before offing them. Both parties, like much of the ruling class in Africa, are corrupt and racist to their core.
Namibia and Botswana are about as good as you are going to get. Also Trinidad and the Bahamas in the west.
I know! scrap it all and make a dctator or king because a bunch of thugs want to be thugs!
That will help things out a lot!
/sarcasm.
“Any South African...black,white or in between...who has any desire to have a prosperous,peaceful life and is willing to work hard for that life would be wise to escape SA.”
Any suggestions as to where we should go, or who would take us?
As you surely know Australia and Canada are Western nations as big,or bigger,than the US but have populations smaller than California's.It's my understanding that Australia is actively recruiting immigrants and while I'm not sure about Canada I'd be surprised if they weren't.As for the US...it's hard to imagine our current government letting you in unless you're black and are related to Mandela or unless you speak Spanish.And my guess is that Europe might be problematic as well.
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