Feb 12

Teacher don’t teach me no nonsense

Category: africa, rock_roll

As South Africans prepare to vote in our April 2009 election it is time to steer away from all this negativity, this overwhelming perpetual obsession and media over-saturation with stories of crime and corruption. Let us not get distracted now and pay a little more attention to the real issues that affects our society. Food, housing, water, electricity, health services and most important of all education. Let us elect those leaders who are sensitive to our needs, listening to our people and hold them accountable through strengthening our democracy and our democratic institutions. Let us firmly and unanimously reject all those academics and experts and analysts and advisors who keep on informing  us that our future as a nation is controlled by “the market” and that we are in fact governed by “foreign investors”.  Because if that is the case - what is the point of having elections and a democracy at all ?

Let us listen to the great spirit of Fela when he reminded us again that our destiny is in our own hands.

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5 Comments so far

  1. MoAfrika February 19th, 2009 1:46 am

    Ozoneblue, I just had a thought while reading this post that all the things we should not focus on are interlinked with those that we should focus on. I think the best way to address the essentials, is to rid ourselves of the non-essentials. With that, I agree with you.

  2. mili February 19th, 2009 8:36 am

    Ozone, the reason for the media frenzy regarding crime and corruption is that crime an corruption stands in the way of sufficient, effective and accountable service delivery. Everything you mention i.e. Food, housing, water, electricity, health services and education, if administered by corrupt officials, will erode away until all we can look forward to is our next cholera injection.

    Regarding your misguided stab at foreign investors and their importance to SA please refer to: http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-02-19-world-economy-set-for-bad-2009-says-imf

  3. ozoneblue February 19th, 2009 4:33 pm

    mili @ 8:36 am

    I don’t feel my “stab” at the foreign investors is necessarily misguided. I have sensed during the past decade or so a kind of apathy, even fatalism that seems to say that the exercise of political choices through the process of democracy have no meaning anymore - that the only political force that exist are needs and whims of “the markets”.

    I beg to differ.

  4. echo_dek February 26th, 2009 1:48 am

    ahh great another racist agenda website ” the markets” the Investors” yes they coming to get you!!!! grow up mate

  5. ozoneblue March 5th, 2009 12:25 am

    What was racist about that post echo_dek ?

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