SA Political Situation

[PaarlBok]

The current SA situation is not looking good, Myself love rugby and my country a great deal but at this moment things dont look good at all. Not the crime or the AWB or the ANC but more the timing of the kak coming from Malema and specific the farm murder on Eugene Terreblanche. The poofball WC just around the corner and the press blowing the situation totally out of preportion, thats the one that have me worried.

So gents and gals, dont read to much in the press, its really not that bad , forget about the PoofBall, I am more worried as part of the lost generation and the effect this will have on the future of my beloved country. Suddenly every man or woman , adult or kid start talking about the white vs black battle.

 

[RugbyFuture]

good to hear it isnt as bad as we are hearing, its still worrying that such high profile racist organisations exist there, but then again apparently theres gonna be some sorta skinhead rally on the goldcoast tweed area, so its everywhere, just matters how everyone handles it.

 

[PaarlBok]

Ja handling the secret here. Look like I said, our 40 to 50 + generation lived the old SA to where it is now. All of us are old soldiers, groin up to fight a war. Thats something you'll never lose, mentally I mean, its there, part of your brain, printed in your brain. So we sort of been there, done that BUT we moved on. We try to educate the kids away from racism, try to make this place a better place for the kids, try to help them settle into the Rainbow Nation. Now myself (x soldier and old SA timer)dont have to tell them anything about racism, nope our beloved government do it somma on my behalf via qoutas in sport, BEE in the business world, BEE in the work place. My kid bring some history ooks to the home and show me the picture they got from the past. I dont agree with this picture but know pretty well NOT to make life difficult for them and just shut the trap. Big mistake, more then 3000 farmers murdered but then they killed ET in the most bizarre way and its like a lit here. Talking , talking, Malema , kill the Boer , shite and I have no idea the way they want to go, no vokken way but I do know, I'll die just here on SA soil, no way I'll go anywhere else and I have my Bible close to the heart. Prayer is the one that will save us, nothing else.

 

[Sully]

The Government and police seem to be doing the right thing. They have found the 2 boys/men and arrested them very quickly. I have no time for the white supremacist bullshit that some people believe but I do believe everyone has the right to live peacefully as long as they keep their shit away from me.

 

[PaarlBok]

Sure is right mater, problem is this two bastards were arrogant enough to phone the Police with ETs stolen mobile and told them they commit the murder.

The government, well myself wish Zuma have enough balls to shut up his youth league pres Malema. Yesterday the dumb fuck chase a BBC journalist out of his press conferense calling him a white agent bastard.

The crime here have already caught on me, oldest son went through a kitnap drama and a gun against his head, followed by a courtcase.

 

[PaarlBok]

Dunno if I have to put it up with the jokes but think it fit in well here. :nta:

Julius Malema receives a coded message from the AWB. It reads:

S30d - 0773H

Julius was stunned. He called the YOUTH LEAGUE, CIA and FBI, but not one of them could crack the code.
Finally, He calls Koos Van der Merwe, Superintendent at the SAPS Intelligence Unit.
Koos's reply was quick and to the point......

"You're holding the message upside down!"

 

[Ruggo]

Beats me why we just can't treat eachother like human beings. Don't we all bleed red blood. Sadly hypocracy is an ever increasing plague on our world.

 

[RugbyFuture]

except for league mungos, they don't deserve to live....

 

[Thomond78]

The good news, looks like even the ANC have had enough of Julius. Zuma's torn strips off the tubby cretin. If Zuma chucks him and kicks the ANCYL in the clackers, it'd be the best easy popularity he'd ever get.

 

[PaarlBok]

Ja lets hope it happen, see this morning in the news Juluis is surprise by the way the ANC is treating him after his Zim and Skiet die Boer handling.

 

[Thomond78]

Oom, Julius would be surprised by the sun rising in the east. About the only thing that wouldn't over-extend him intellectually is the menu at Nandos. :lmao:

 

[PaarlBok]

Ja Boet, myself sitting with one hell of a dillema regarding him, my daughter studying art at Matie best work is a painting of him. Already framed it but I dont have the heart to put it up, think it will be a good idea to file it somewhere in the house and one day when the Tax man wants to screw me, I'll just give him the painting to stay out of jail.

She also paint a nice one of our Zille antie, that one I have against the wall.

 

[PaarlBok]

Look like Julius faith will be decide today. He had two members of the judge fired having problem with them in the past.

This one got under my skin big time, more rugby related
Sport24

Stofile: SARU should say sorry

Johannesburg - Sports minister Makhenkesi Stofile says the country's rugby union federation should apologize to Maoris in New Zealand for excluding them from tours during the apartheid era for being nonwhite.

Stofile wrote a letter, published on Sunday in New Zealand's Sunday News newspaper, saying the South African and New Zealand rugby governing bodies should say sorry on behalf of their predecessors.
"An apology to those who were the victims of racial discrimination is in order," Stofile wrote. "This cannot harm anyone who genuinely accepts that racial prejudice was an injustice then as it still is an injustice now.

"I do believe that both the NZRU and the SARU should apologize for the folly of those who came before them. We cannot be expected to simply forget where we came from and the pain it caused many people."

Maoris were not allowed to tour with All Blacks teams in 1928 and during the apartheid-era series of 1949 and 1960, because South Africa wouldn't allow nonwhites to play against the Springboks.

Stofile wrote that South Africa and New Zealand were the "biggest culprits" during apartheid for excluding deserving players from national teams based on race. He said it was sad that the New Zealand Rugby Union "cooperated" when South Africa refused to allow nonwhites to play.

SARU said it had "taken careful note" of Stofile's comments and would release a statement Tuesday after meeting the NZRU at an International Rugby Board session in Ireland.

"The South African Rugby Union will make a formal statement on the subject once I have had the opportunity to share our position with my counterparts from the New Zealand Rugby Union," SARU president Oregan Hoskins said.

It would be a landmark decision for SARU, formed during South Africa's shift to democracy, to take responsibility and say sorry for the policies of rugby administrators during apartheid.

SARU was formed in 1992 and is a union of the formerly whites-only South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union. It is made up of many nonwhites who were discriminated against during apartheid.

Rugby is closely connected to South Africa's racist past, as it was the sport of the apartheid government and caused black people to support visiting teams over the all-white Springboks.

But post-apartheid it has tried to shake off those connections.

South African rugby's most poignant moment came in 1995 when new president Nelson Mandela wore the green-and-gold jersey of the Springboks at the Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg, endorsing the national team and the sport's new nonracial setup. New Zealand, ironically, was the team South Africa went on to beat in the 1995 final.

New Zealand's rugby union has twice asked the Maori Board if it should apologize for excluding Maori players from tours to South Africa, but Maori officials have said an apology is not necessary and they would rather focus on the future.

New Zealand celebrates 100 years of Maori rugby this year, and may mark the occasion with a match between a Maori team and a South African side.

All good and well but why should the two countries rugby unions have to say sorry for sins of the past and something they dont had any control over.

Now looking at the current sport situation in this country, why do he wants qoutas then?

Isnt it the same thing?

Will he say sorry for letting this happen and something he have control over?

Why dont the Kiwis and the IRB boycott us for fielding racists iso merit teams?

It kills our sport and these lot is to stupid with the past , they dont bodder with the present and future.

 

[DPK]

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/unity-no-soweto-x2026-south-africans-go-wild-for-bulls-and-the-bafana-20100528-wlfc.html

I thought this was a good story. Glass half full at times, but hey, who doesn't like taking a optimistic eye to Africa?

 

[PaarlBok]

It give me great pleasure to announce this.

news24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ANC-to-drop-sport-quotas-20120304

ANC could drop sport quotas

2012-03-04 14:29



Johannesburg - The ANC was in favour of dropping sport quotas for a performance scorecard to monitor transformation targets for sports federations and bodies, the Sunday Times reported.
In a discussion document, transformation in sport since 1994 had been deemed "unsuccessful" by the ruling party.
The scorecard would allow a sports body "to measure where it is in its transformation journey," said the document as reported by the newspaper.
The ANC was reported to believe that the debate on transformation was often emotional, over-simplified and misunderstood.
The document said the department of sport should implement grassroots-based initiatives to aid development, talent identification and lead to the eventual abandonment of the quota system.
It stated that structural changes should take place within municipalities to streamline the development process.
The newspaper reported Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula had argued for the scrapping of quotas, with development focused at school level.