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IF YOU CALL YOURSELF A TRUE SOUTH AFRICAN - YOU HAVE TO READ THIS! before the elections!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

 

 

Please read this semi-humorous letter from Trevor Mallach, a Shoprite Group executive and please pass on to just five friends with the request that they do the same etc, etc...

 

 

I don't normally get involved in politics, but this should ring true for every South African! Read and pass on to every person proud to own a green passport! Hello fellow citizens   If like me, you don't have a passport from another country and you quite like living in <?: prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />South Africaon>, now is quite an important time for you.   Instead of using clich?s like "the future is in your hands.." or "make your mark, let your voice be heard!" and other ineffective drivel, I am going to just draw your attention to the following:   Bob Mugabe had to amend the constitution of Zimbabweon> to allow him to remain in power as president, long after he had reached his intellectual sell-by-date. (Before this, as in all "democracies", there was a limit to the number of terms which a president could serve). Having changed it once, he did it again. Then he was on a roll. The rest of the story we all know very well. With hindsight, we can see that had he been prevented from taking the first step, the whole sub-Saharan part of Africa would have been spared quite a lot of bother.   When Hitler took over Germanyon> he systematically turned it into a fascist police-state, where no-one (no, not even German citizens) had any freedom. He did this by passing one piece of legislature after another. Slowly he started to ban things (like women shaving their legs and underarms). Next he formed a special police force which was under his personal control (the infamous Gestapo) to enforce these new laws. Then he banned some more things, like jokes, clever books and talking about him behind his back. By the time he had mobilised his army, and banned being Jewish or trying to stop him from invading your country it was TOO LATE! He had gained too much momentum. "How did he and Bob manage this?" you may ask. I'll tell you how: Baby steps. Each time they changed something, they convinced all the stupid people that it was for the greater good. Clever people, who could tell that it wasn't, thought to themselves "Surely they won't get away with this" over tea and rusks, but did nothing. By the time someone decided to stand up and make a scene, his house had been burned down and his head was firmly wedged between an S.S. boot and the pavement outside.   Now, I'm sure we all agree that one "Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma" possesses neither the intellect, balls or charisma to start a world war. However, he has somehow managed to wangle his way into a position where he can very well take the first baby step towards making a complete pig's ear of our country. Old-school racist whites are always on about our country going to the dogs and ending up like Zim.. Of course they did this because they were narrow-minded and ignorant, not because they were keeping a keen eye on actual political developments. Our downfall will not be racism as everyone predicted in 1994, it will be corrupt politicians driven by greed and a hunger for power. And people drinking tea saying "surely they won't get away with that?".   Now,   JZ's trial has been scheduled for August (which is AFTER the election). After winning the election, the ANC plans on amending the constitution to prohibit the acting president from being prosecuted in a court of law. Just like with Bob Mugabe, the most fundamental law of the country will now be changed to suit the whims of a criminal with no brain. (Never mind the fact that this would actually mean that he could literally commit murder and get away with it until he steps down as president). Our constitution is literally the anchor which stops our country from drifting down river and over the edge of a waterfall. It leaves ultimate power in the hands of the courts and judges and prevents government from raising itself above the law. To allow anyone to mess with it is equivalent to committing a slow national suicide. The ANC no doubt thinks they will again get the two thirds majority they need to tinker with the constitution in the April election.   I beg to differ.   I hope and believe that, unlike the sheep of the past in Germanyon> and Zimbabweon> , the average person who receives this mail has actually had enough of all these shenanigans and would like to see the appearance of justice, logic and efficiency in government. Unfortunately, we are in the minority. However, to prevent things from getting worse really fast, all we have to do (for now) is:   VOTE !!!!!!!! And then, when the election comes, vote for anyone except the ANC. You can vote for Vernon Koekemoer or Skippy Peanut Butter for all I care, just as long as no one gets a two-thirds majority!   I swear on my grandma's grave... if I hear someone (who didn't vote or couldn't vote because they were too lazy or hungover to register) complaining at a braai about the government I will come in from the side with a flying head-butt which will leave you so brain-damaged you'll join the ANC youth league and vote for Julius Malema in 2013.   This country is genuinely amazing, lets not let a small handful of people use it as their personal monopoly set and turn it into another post-Collonial African 3rd World sad story.   Vote, dammit! People are willing to die fighting for the right to vote. If you don't, and you end up watching as the country slowly slides into an abyss it will be "on you".   Ok, enough.

[TNT1]

Oh! Good. Me and holy like this bandwagon. Make space for us...

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Viva! Viva!

 

Lovely letter... I like the one about the ant & the grasshopper as well. Very George Orwell-ish

 

[BarbaraL]

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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.

[Red Zone]

Another fake letter from a "fake corporate man" I bet that Trevor Mallach doesnt exist. No one in a prominent position of such a powerful brand would write defamitory comments about JZ "a criminal with no brain".

 

[vanniri]

Message to all "suurgat" South Africans abroad.

 

 

 

Just saw Barbara L's post above, the exact same post is also posted on another forum - professional pilots something.

 

 

 

It seems some ex-SA'ers is on an all out effort to bad mouth SA whenever they get the opportunity.

 

 

 

I have lived a number of years overseas in countries ranging from the affluent (Swiss) to the poor (Kosovo) and all have problems, but all have positive points as well. The one thing none of these countries have to offer is familiarity associated with having grown-up there.

 

 

 

I will always think of SA in a very positive way since it is an integral part of me and I always look forward going back home.

 

 

 

If you continue to use forums to link yourself to SA (for good or bad), lets face it you might have left the country but a large part of you is still there. All of you are grown-ups who made your own choices. Leave other people to make informed choices for themselves and stop whining from a distance that things changed unexpectedly. Change is part of live and with the credit crunch I bet radical and uncomfortable changes is likely around the corner for even affluent countries.

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Another fake letter from a "fake corporate man" I bet that Trevor Mallach doesnt exist. No one in a prominent position of such a powerful brand would write defamitory comments about JZ "a criminal with no brain".

 

 If  You google Trevor Mallach there is a page and yes there is doubt that actually exists. Well some one exisists who wrote this and good on him/her

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[Joe Low]

IF YOU CALL YOURSELF A TRUE SOUTH AFRICAN - YOU HAVE TO READ THIS! before the elections!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

Ridiculous comments with capitals and exclamation marks would make me vote..............ANC

 

The article itself is the usual faux-brow tosh.

 

Hitler....blah, blah........Mugabe......blah blah....

 

Oh yawn.  More scared middle class white people.

 

 

...and the majority of true South Africans probably can't read this.

 

 

 

 

Joe Low2009-02-21 01:02:10