< ="-" ="text/; =utf-8">< name="ProgId" ="Word.">< name="Generator" ="Microsoft Word 10">< name="Originator" ="Microsoft Word 10"><> Baaa ? the present-day sheep There is a blatantly stupid statement in this missive which proves that the author has grasped neither the seriousness nor the scope of the problem: "unlike the sheep of the past in Germanyon> and Zimbabweon>..." The "baby steps" in South Africaon> started almost twenty years ago. We, the "sheep" of the present, the well-meaning, trusting, positive-thinking people of South Africa, went along with it. Including you. I've lived in a third-world country; South Africaon> is not becoming one, it's already there. Gestapo? Police state? Heard about Dawid Bothma, the Treasury guy who was arrested because he pissed off a police constable? Or the "Blue-Light Brigades" who shoot people or run them over when they don't get out of the way fast enough? And a myriad other true stories? Vote, by all means. In my opinion, it's too little, too late. Pray for a miracle.
