The decision to ban SA Roadlink buses from the roads was justified in order to save lives, KwaZulu-Natal transport MEC Bheki Cele said on Friday. In an interview, Cele pulled no punches in his criticism of the national bus operator, which has a history of accidents in the province, with several of its buses being declared unroadworthy by provincial authorities over the past two years. "They are just troublesome and everything about them stinks. Their owners' attitudes stink, their buses stink and their [compliance with] labour laws stink," he said. - from iol
but also...
The KwaZulu Natal Legislature is set to debate whether the province's social welfare MEC should be dismissed. This comes after his VIP driver was arrested for allegedly shooting out the tyre of a motorist who was too slow in moving out of the fast lane. It will also discuss whether being late for a meeting constitutes an emergency. The Democratic Alliance has tabled a motion in the provincial legislature demanding that it condemn "the assault, intimidation, insult and shooting perpetrated by VIP members of the cabinet".
Keys also asked the province's Transport, Safety and Security MEC, Bheki Cele, to retract his statement that being late for a meeting constituted an emergency, which allowed him and his colleagues to disregard the rules of the road. In May 2007, Cele said in a statement that he was late for the launch of a pedestrian safety campaign in KwaMashu, after his flight from Johannesburg to Durban was delayed by more than an hour. This, he argued, turned a "well-planned and scheduled meeting" into an "emergency", and therefore entitled his VIP drivers to use their blue lights. - from iol
so the only question i have: why the fuck did he act so fast this time, but does not care or give a shit when he happens to be running late?
(by the way, the High Court dismissed the licence suspension.)
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Monday, 8 December 2008
well done on your sterling work!
dear sir,
i would like to congratulate you on making the grade, so to speak, although it may have been through no fault of your own but rather the actions of Comrade JZ that elevated you to this eminent position.
hopefully you will be able to carry on the sterling work of your predecessor and ensure that the basket case of Africa is treated with all the respect and attention it deserves, so long as it does not impact upon the election campaign of the party.
i would like to make special mention of the basket case, that being the country and not Comrade Bob, as it has been in the news for a while now and expecially of late with the pesky little cholera problem. can't the world see that even that is a construct of the colonial powers and intended to make a mockery of Comrade Bob's good work? wasn't it Europe who first came up the 'cholera epidemic' idea or doesn't anyone remember the events of the 1850's? isn't it clear that this is just another attempt to disillusion the voters and the world and try to make light of Comrade Bob's single handed liberation of the basket case?
but before i get too worked up about that non-emergency on a national scale, well done on putting the people of COPE back in their place. this is after all the biggest threat that the party has ever had to face in all it's decades of struggling.
who are these people that think that with their revolution they can upstage the party's revolution? not only should they not be allowed to use the words 'congress' and 'people', but i think that they should also be banned from ever using the word 'revolution'. the party practically invented the word and the definition, and that on the same day nogal!
before we know it they will try to use revolutionary tactics, like going door to door during the election campaigns or promising people to do something about crime! that would really be pushing it too far. i think that they should be stopped, we should start our own counter revolution to stop their revolution, or is it our revolution to stop their counter revolution? what if they start saying that Comrade Bob is counter revolutionary?
truthfully speaking, he could never be. there is too much counter space in the basket case, what with the sanctions of the imperialist yankee dog pigs. so there is plenty space for revolution, no need to be counter at all.
in any case, i just wanted to let you know that i support you all the way in these trying times and that i trust the party will uphold the standards of the last 14 years and do exactly as they have done to bring more revolution to the people. (the people of South Africa, not the People of the Congress, they have enough revolution already).
best of luck and may you and Comrade Bob laugh over a cup of tea with Comrade JZ when this is all over.
i would like to congratulate you on making the grade, so to speak, although it may have been through no fault of your own but rather the actions of Comrade JZ that elevated you to this eminent position.
hopefully you will be able to carry on the sterling work of your predecessor and ensure that the basket case of Africa is treated with all the respect and attention it deserves, so long as it does not impact upon the election campaign of the party.
i would like to make special mention of the basket case, that being the country and not Comrade Bob, as it has been in the news for a while now and expecially of late with the pesky little cholera problem. can't the world see that even that is a construct of the colonial powers and intended to make a mockery of Comrade Bob's good work? wasn't it Europe who first came up the 'cholera epidemic' idea or doesn't anyone remember the events of the 1850's? isn't it clear that this is just another attempt to disillusion the voters and the world and try to make light of Comrade Bob's single handed liberation of the basket case?
but before i get too worked up about that non-emergency on a national scale, well done on putting the people of COPE back in their place. this is after all the biggest threat that the party has ever had to face in all it's decades of struggling.
who are these people that think that with their revolution they can upstage the party's revolution? not only should they not be allowed to use the words 'congress' and 'people', but i think that they should also be banned from ever using the word 'revolution'. the party practically invented the word and the definition, and that on the same day nogal!
before we know it they will try to use revolutionary tactics, like going door to door during the election campaigns or promising people to do something about crime! that would really be pushing it too far. i think that they should be stopped, we should start our own counter revolution to stop their revolution, or is it our revolution to stop their counter revolution? what if they start saying that Comrade Bob is counter revolutionary?
truthfully speaking, he could never be. there is too much counter space in the basket case, what with the sanctions of the imperialist yankee dog pigs. so there is plenty space for revolution, no need to be counter at all.
in any case, i just wanted to let you know that i support you all the way in these trying times and that i trust the party will uphold the standards of the last 14 years and do exactly as they have done to bring more revolution to the people. (the people of South Africa, not the People of the Congress, they have enough revolution already).
best of luck and may you and Comrade Bob laugh over a cup of tea with Comrade JZ when this is all over.
Friday, 5 December 2008
different master, same sambok
Macambini residents near Mandini do have cause to be upset, even if the government does not wish to admit so.
what really makes the story interesting is that there are laws protecting people from forceful removal and more laws that allow people to claim their ancestral land back.
but in the name of progress, development, Dubai billions and 'the best interests of the people', the residents may lose their land.
i fail to understand how a government that is outspoken about taking farms away for restitution is also planning to remove people to make way for another rich playground? is this because the deadline for applications has lapsed, so if the planning goes ahead against the will of the community they will not be able to use the same law to protect themselves?
if the project does go ahead, how long before we find out that one of the official's wife's sister's daughter was a director of a company that supplied 'documentation/support/consultation/insert favourite euphimism for kickback here' to one of the preferred biders?
on a final note, the residents are free to burn tyres and protest but pelting innocent travellers with stones and damaging their cars is taking it a bit far, i would suggest rather to take that protest to the government buildings or they should take aim at the blue light brigade when next it passes. perhaps then the premier will stop and listen.
what really makes the story interesting is that there are laws protecting people from forceful removal and more laws that allow people to claim their ancestral land back.
but in the name of progress, development, Dubai billions and 'the best interests of the people', the residents may lose their land.
i fail to understand how a government that is outspoken about taking farms away for restitution is also planning to remove people to make way for another rich playground? is this because the deadline for applications has lapsed, so if the planning goes ahead against the will of the community they will not be able to use the same law to protect themselves?
if the project does go ahead, how long before we find out that one of the official's wife's sister's daughter was a director of a company that supplied 'documentation/support/consultation/insert favourite euphimism for kickback here' to one of the preferred biders?
on a final note, the residents are free to burn tyres and protest but pelting innocent travellers with stones and damaging their cars is taking it a bit far, i would suggest rather to take that protest to the government buildings or they should take aim at the blue light brigade when next it passes. perhaps then the premier will stop and listen.
Thursday, 4 December 2008
away in a manger?
or mangling the religious beliefs of many?
of course Zuma is like Jesus, except for the hipocrisy of being the chairman of a 'moral regeneration' committee while admitting to adultery, wasn't there something in the ten commandments about that? and maybe what he meant with the shower fiasco was turning bad blood into wine and not washing the nasty aids virus off?
according to his dear friend Magashule of the Free State the comparison is based on Jesus being '...called names and betrayed. It's the same kind of suffering Mr Zuma has had to bear recently...'.
unfortunately for mr M, this was because Jesus was sacrificing himself for the good of mankind and we all know that the only thing politicians ever sacrifice is their morals, the voters, the will of the people if it is not in agreement with their planned rise to stardom and anybody else that drives in the fast lane when they are late for the next meeting.
i don't see Zuma sacrificing his claim to the throne as he should, considering the cloud of suspicion hanging over his head.
now that would be cause for a comparison of this magnitude.
of course Zuma is like Jesus, except for the hipocrisy of being the chairman of a 'moral regeneration' committee while admitting to adultery, wasn't there something in the ten commandments about that? and maybe what he meant with the shower fiasco was turning bad blood into wine and not washing the nasty aids virus off?
according to his dear friend Magashule of the Free State the comparison is based on Jesus being '...called names and betrayed. It's the same kind of suffering Mr Zuma has had to bear recently...'.
unfortunately for mr M, this was because Jesus was sacrificing himself for the good of mankind and we all know that the only thing politicians ever sacrifice is their morals, the voters, the will of the people if it is not in agreement with their planned rise to stardom and anybody else that drives in the fast lane when they are late for the next meeting.
i don't see Zuma sacrificing his claim to the throne as he should, considering the cloud of suspicion hanging over his head.
now that would be cause for a comparison of this magnitude.
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
wilkommen
and so it starts again...
you will be glad to know that we have overcome all the difficulties in our path to bring you the resurrection of friendsofthekakiebos.
between hardware errors, the sp going boom and losing our luggage in zimbabwe, we have managed to remain sane, or so the doctors say.
there are still months of therapy ahead, but with your help and input we hope to bring you the same level of sub-standard content as before.
and this year being the 101 year anniversary of kakiebos being declared a weed, there is work to be done.
onward soldiers!
ed.
you will be glad to know that we have overcome all the difficulties in our path to bring you the resurrection of friendsofthekakiebos.
between hardware errors, the sp going boom and losing our luggage in zimbabwe, we have managed to remain sane, or so the doctors say.
there are still months of therapy ahead, but with your help and input we hope to bring you the same level of sub-standard content as before.
and this year being the 101 year anniversary of kakiebos being declared a weed, there is work to be done.
onward soldiers!
ed.
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