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Despite being subjected to labor action, farm attacks (and murders), high fuel prices, poor road maintenance and more negative than positive input from the government,  Agriculture created the most work over the last year.

It is a shame that this sector has been singled out as the scapegoat for almost all the ills of this poor  beleaguered little country.  Farmers that stay on regardless of the fact that the government is doing very little to put a stop to criminal activity that places the farming community under severe mental and physical stress, are still forming the backbone of employment .

This country has the potential for feeding all the countries South of the Sahara and can reach this potential only with government support. It should be nursed as the goose that lays golden eggs instead of being subjected to negative press and  incessant pressure from labor organizations that threaten to topple this bastion of employment and downstream job creation..

So many of the farms that have been allocated through land claims are now lying idle or are being rented by white farmers with the know-how to produce food. Unlike our friends in the North, our population has not yet been subjected to famine for exactly this reason but should the Government persist with unreasonable land claims, we might end up in this situation sooner than is thought possible.

I do not believe that it is the aim of our government to have photographs of pot-bellied, snot nosed, emaciated kids splashed all over the internet in order to garner assistance from the West, as is so often the case with some of our Northern neighbors.

Boost this sector, make the labor laws more amenable to propagate food production and food security in order that we can again be proud to be South Africans.

You can never succeed to implement Democratic reforms in a non-Democratic Tyranny.

Democracy means “government by the the people”

In a Democracy, an army is established to protect the population from external threats and a Police force to maintain law and order within the population and borders of a country, according to the Constitution of said country.

When the will of the population is not reflected by the government and the results of an election is already known before the election takes place, it makes a mockery of the term “Democracy” and normally leads to a revolution, armed or otherwise.

If the government and in particular, the head of state manipulates and uses the armed forces and police as bodyguards for himself and his closest allies within his government against the population, it can not be called a Democracy anymore and the will of the population will not be evident in the government decision making processes.

This is euphemistically called an Autocracy which in Africa actually means Tyranny or rule by terror.

The general population, through intimidation by the armed forces and police, are made to believe that any action against the government may lead to incarceration, torture or even death. This belief is further reinforced through a few, very public incidents of extreme treatment of “dissidents” or malcontents. (normally after closing the country to foreign correspondents and so forth and severe censorship of local news) This has happened a few time already !  Any news of such incidents that “leaks” are normally met by extreme denial and claims that it is a ploy of the opposition to discredit the ruling party.

In a country where one of the first actions by the fledgeling government was to disarm the population, there is not much hope of an armed revolt.

Couple to this extreme poverty and unavailability of many of the basic amenities and the part of the  population that have not fled to neighboring countries yet, become unable to do so and will probably lack the will to oust the offending government..

The hope of the few that have a grasp of Democratic concepts were placed on Tsvangirai but this poor individual was probably subjected to the “special” treatment of the ruling elite at the beginning of his political career to soften him up and bend him to their will.

Anyone that do not believe in coincidence will probably have inferred at the time, that the unfortunate motor vehicle accident to Mr. Tsvangirai’s family members was probably aimed at severely curbing his exuberant efforts to bring about Democratic change, I do believe that he truly wanted to make a difference and wished to place Zimbabwe back on the road with a semblance of Democratic rule.

Alas, Africa wins again. I believe that Mr. Tsvangirai, without the coercing would have made a worthy opponent to the black “Hitler” of Africa but whether the events in his life was coincidental or planned by a very crafty manipulator, the reforms set out at the beginning are not going to be brought about by his efforts – great pity because he paid the ultimate price.

One can almost hear the thought processes of the President of Zim – “The world wants “Free and Fair elections”, let us plead poverty and let THEM pay for the election. It is a win-win situation. I has worked in the past and surely it will work again. get a few million for nothing that can be used to pay off the military and police and the remaining few million can be deposited into a few of the many numbered accounts or front companies elsewhere, swelling the Mugabe family fortune to bursting point. HA, HA, Ha, Ha, Ha – gullible arseholes. Post observers at  a few, well trained and rehearsed polling stations to make everybody happy and make sure that we win the election by a big enough margin to enable us to change the few Constitutional laws that are still offending (They don’t really care anyway).” end of thought process.

JZ visits old age home and gives the elderly cake – commendable even if it smacks of an incident in France long ago.

Sunette Bridges voor Vryheidskommissie oor eerlike uitlatings wat sy gemaak het (Vryburger, Desember 27, 2012) Die uitlatings strook met dit wat 90% van ware Afrikaners elke dag se en dink en sal nie mense aanspoor om geweld (of Volksmoord) te pleeg nie. Julius Malema het hordes opgesweep met sy “Kill the farmer” liedjie en is eers na maande aangese om op te hou met die nonsens – die liedjie word in elk geval nog steeds gesing.

Die tydsverloop het sekelik aanleiding gegee tot die moord op vele blanke boere en hulle families.

Ja, ek voel ook dat ons geld eerder iets mooier as n gesiggie van n eertydse president wat deur andersdenkende mense aan bewind geplaas is, moet uitbeeld.

Ons regering propageer aan die een kant gelyke regte, deursigtigneid ens. en aan die ander kant keur hulle volksmoord, rassistiese indiensnemingswetgewing (BEE), eensydige naamveranderings, bykomende tolregulasies en belastings goed. Die feit dat die eerste “B” vir “Black” staan is nie n kwessie van miskien is dit rassisties nie, dit is blatant rassisties. Besighede word geforseer om aan die wetgewing te voldoen deur die puntestelsel wat aan die wetgewing gekoppel is. Indie dit nie voldoen nie word so n besigheid gepenaliseer – tot so n mate dat dit bankrotskap in die oe kan staar.

Hulle verblind die sinne van die buitewereld met mooipraatjies terwyl ons leiers hulle eie volksgenote beroof deur ongelooflike opulente leefstyle.

Wat het geword van vryheid van spraak – en Carina, van wanneer af kla mens jou eie volksgenote aan by n kommissie wat grootliks eensydige besluite neem.

Some people are scared shitless, some are anticipating extreme change –WHY? It is always the end of the world – referring to the poor abused planet earth. The scenario always includes the Christian God (and apparently the Mayan gods) wanting to obliterate everything that was created (once perfect).

The Planet did not commit any wrongdoing, in fact the whole nature, except Homo Sapiens-Sapiens is constantly trying to regain balance and normality.

We – the humans, are procreating (fuc&#%) things up, constantly looking for more ways to feed, clothe and house the ever increasing multitudes. The whole process of population growth is required to keep the wheels of poorly managed economies – world wide turning. The notion of preaching a slowdown in population growth (by any Politician worth the name) is a big no-no, unless you want to lose the next election of course. We are screwing ourselves into extinction in the process of providing cannon fodder for the factories and industry (and often wars) . In fact, some economies thrive on the premature use of their cannon fodder in the form of child labor – a lot cheaper.

We still have some time to turn the tables – not many years, but maybe a few. The end of the world that is so feared will probably be of our own doing – not God or some catastrophe as spectacular as some of those depicted in the movies.

More likely than not, we will start drowning in our own waste, water and food sources contaminated to such an extent that it becomes unfit for human consumption.

The latest horror perpetrated in this country being the Hydro fracturing of the Karoo shales to extract even more CO and CO2 producing fuels.

This must obviously be weighed-up against the benefits – job creation and revenue producing exports. Bugger the Karoo and the groundwater, which will probably become so contaminated that it will be unfit for man or beast.

There will be the lucky few, the very rich and  some high ranking Government officials who have accounts all over the show, especially in responsible countries where population growth was taken out of the economic equation long ago as a means to create the impression of prosperity. Jump on a plane and go to one of these countries. It will buy the guilty a few years of respite until these havens also go the “sewer” route. The only organisms that thrive in their own wastes are viruses and bacteria – if you expose man to his own shit for long enough, he will die.