The Gravy Train.

Mr Nelson Mandela died on the fifth of December at 20:50 South African time. He died peacefully at his home, surrounded by his family. He was 95 years old.

The Thembu tribe is part of a handful of nations and population groups which speak Xhosa in South Africa. Mr Mandela belonged to the royalty of this clan. His clan name is Madiba. His birth place is Qunu which is situated in a part of the Eastern Cape previously named Transkei.

Mr Nelson Mandela was a peace maker and a very nice man. He fought for the freedom of his people during the apartheid years and was a member of the African National Congress which was a Liberation movement. Although he was committed to non violent protests, he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961 in association with the South African Communist Party. Leading several sabotage campaigns against the apartheid government successfully, the ruling National Party prohibited the ANC and
they went underground.


Mr Mandela stood trial in Rivonia and was convicted of being involved with conspiracy to overthrow the government and was sentence to life in prison in 1962. He was isolated from normal life as he was a threat to the white African society.
He served twenty seven years of this life sentence, served eighteen years on Robben-Island and nine years in other prisons.
He served six years in the Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town which is a maximum security prison, and later in the Victor Verster prison for two years, now known as Drakenstein Correctional service in the Western Cape close to Paarl which is a low security farm prison.

He was released from prison in 1990 from Victor Vester Prison and walked to freedom to prevent a civil war.

In 1992 he negotiated through Codesa to abolish Apartheid and establish multi racial elections. He became South Africa’s first black President. He promulgated a new constitution for a Democratic South Africa, and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human right violations in South Africa. He received the Nobel Peace prize in 1993 just before he became president in 1994.
Unfortunately to have been in prison for twenty seven years made him a ex convict.

In 1999 he stepped down as President declining a second term. His successor was Thabo Mbeki. He served nine years as the second post-apartheid President of South Africa. He resigned after improper interference with the National Prosecution Authority regarding the prosecution of Jacob Zuma.


Thabo Mbeki was the executive face of the South Africa government; the economy grew at an average rate of 4.5 %. He created employment in the middle sectors of the economy and oversaw a fast-growing black middle class with the implementation of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).

His 'quiet diplomacy' in Zimbabwe, however, is blamed for protracting the survival of Robert Mugabe's regime at the cost of thousands of lives and intense economic pressure on Zimbabwe's neighbors.



Mbeki has received worldwide criticism for his AIDS stance. The delay in distributing anti-retro-viral drugs is attributed to the ban he placed on their use in public state hospitals, and is also linked to the estimated deaths of some hundreds of thousands.
These losses of lives made him a mass murderer.


Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe is a South African politician who served as President of South Africa between 25 September 2008 and 9 May 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki. The new ANC leadership, dominated by supporters of Jacob Zuma, applied pressure on President Thabo Mbeki to appoint Motlanthe to the cabinet.



He became a member of parliament in May 2008 and in July was appointed to the cabinet by Mbeki as Minister without Portfolio. This was seen as a step towards a smooth transition to a future Zuma government.



He always maintained a low public profile, and was widely considered to be acting as a "caretaker president" on behalf of Jacob Zuma.
This made him useless for South Africa..

Zuma succeeded Motlanthe on 9 May 2009 in a presidential election held by the South African National Assembly, following the 2009 general election which had been won by the ANC.



Zuma faced and still facing significant legal challenges. He was charged with rape in 2005, but was acquitted. In addition, he fought a long legal battle over allegations of racketeering and corruption and fraud, resulting in the conviction of his financial advisor Schabir Shaik. On 6 April 2009, the National Prosecuting Authority decided to drop the charges, citing political interference.






In March 2009, Schabir Shaik was released from prison just 28 months into his fifteen-year sentence. He had been granted medical parole, a leniency meant only for the terminally ill, despite the opinion of his doctors that he was fighting fit and free for hospital discharge.















Remarks made by Number One:

Remarks on same-sex marriage:

Zuma was criticized by gay and lesbian groups after he commented on same-sex marriage at a Heritage Day celebration on 24 September 2006 in Stanger, saying that same-sex marriage was "a disgrace to the nation and to God": "When I was growing up, a homosexual would not have stood in front of me. I would have knocked him out.

The Joint Working Group questioned Zuma's leadership skills and stated that a "true leader leads by intellect and wisdom – not by popularity or favor". "How is it that a narrow minded person like this can be expected to lead our nation?"

Zuma subsequently apologized to those who were offended by the statement, saying, "I also respect, acknowledge and applaud the sterling contribution of many gay and lesbian compatriots in the struggle that brought about our freedom, and the role they continue to play in the building of a successful non-racial, non-discriminatory South Africa."

Remarks on Western Sahara:

Habib Defouad, Morocco's ambassador to South Africa criticized Zuma's support for the independence of Western Sahara in June 2007. The ANC has since the 1970s supported the Sahrawi independence movement Front Polisario, under both Mandela and Mbeki. In 2004 South Africa recognized the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, or SADR, as a legitimate government-in-exile.

Remarks on teenage pregnancies.

Zuma's solution to pregnancy in South African teenagers is to confiscate their babies and have the mothers taken to colleges and "forced" to obtain degrees and also to make sure that condoms are available in varied institutions.

Remarks on the Second Coming:

Zuma also drew censure from religious and secular groups alike when he declared that the ANC would rule South Africa until the return of Jesus Christ, and that its continued governance was just what God wanted:

God expects us to rule this country because we are the only organization which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city when we are ruling the country.

Zuma later defended his remarks by describing them as a "political expression": "Talking about Jesus is not abusing his name; it's actually saying historically, 'This is what the ANC is all about.' It's just a political expression that we are strong and will be strong for a long time. I want to apologize, if this reality sits uncomfortably with others. He added that he had been baptized and knew Jesus: "I fear God; I am not despising God, not at all.

Remarks on White Afrikaners: 

Not long before the NPA dropped its corruption case against him, Zuma met with controversy once again. Speaking at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg, whose Afrikaans community he was addressing Jacob Zuma said,

Of all the white groups that are in South Africa, it is only the Afrikaners that are truly South Africans in the true sense of the word. Up to this day, they don't carry two passports; they carry one. They are here to stay.


Addressing the matter of apartheid, Zuma employed wry humor in praising ironically the "innovative" Afrikaner approach to protests, which couched its crimes in terms like "separate development". He also confronted the matter of police corruption, declaring that "you cannot put the trust of the country to a person who is actually a criminal."


Controversies by Number One:

Shaik's parole:

In March 2009, Schabir Shaik was released from prison just 28 months into his fifteen-year sentence. He had been granted medical parole, a leniency meant only for the terminally ill, despite the opinion of his doctors that he was fighting fit and free for hospital discharge.

Media speculation had it that Zuma may have played a role in this eventuality, but the ANC President's spokesman firmly denied it. Only days before, however, he had publicly stated that, as President of South Africa, he would personally ensure Shaik's release.


Ngcobo's nomination as Chief Justice:

On 6 August 2009, Zuma nominated Sandile Ngcobo as Chief Justice of South Africa, drawing criticism from four opposition groups. On 1 October 2009, the appointment was confirmed. The Democratic Alliance, the Congress of the People, the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Independent Democrats accused Zuma of failing to consult properly ahead of the nomination of Ngcobo. The opposition urged Zuma to restart the process from scratch saying they would prefer current Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke for the post.


Failure to disclose assets after taking office as President of South Africa:

Zuma, as President of South Africa, was required to declare his financial interests within 60 days of taking office. But, as of March 2010, he had failed to do so, nine months after taking office. This led to calls for him to do so by opposition parties, and ANC alliance partner COSATU. ANC spokesman, Brian Sokutu, stated that Zuma constituted a "special case", because of his "large family" making it difficult to declare his assets. The ANC later distanced itself from this statement. Zuma disclosed his interests shortly after.

Alleged abuses by bodyguards:

In 2010, Zuma's bodyguards were implicated in multiple incidents involving members of the public and journalists. In February, a Cape Town student, Chumani Maxwele was detained by police after allegedly showing Zuma's motorcade a "rude gesture". Maxwele, an active ANC member, was released after 24 hours, having provided a written apology to police, which he later claimed was coerced. He also claimed that his home had been raided by plain clothes policemen, and that he had been forced into the vehicle at gunpoint. Maxwele later instituted legal action against the police, and a complaint was filed on his behalf to the Human Rights Commission.The incident led to a heated dispute when it was discussed in Parliament. In March, journalist Tshepo Lesole was forced to delete pictures of Zuma's convoy from his camera by police, and two photographers were detained by police when photographing Zuma's Johannesburg home. Sky News reporter Emma Hurd claimed she had been pushed, manhandled and "groped" by Zuma's bodyguards in 2009.

"Shoot the Boer" song:

In January 2012, Zuma gave a speech at the ANC Centennial 2012 celebrations in Bloemfontein, South Africa and afterwards sang the song "Dubul' ibhunu" ("Shoot the Boer").

Authoritarianism:

It has been argued that "Zuma has enhanced the coercive capacity of the state" and that he has focused on "building a state based on fear".

Understanding of Democracy.

On Thursday 13 September 2012, Jacob Zuma left opposition MPs infuriated when he told the South African National Assembly that minority groups have “fewer rights”. He went on to say that within a democracy the majority prevailed.

"You have more rights because you're a majority; you have fewer rights because you're a minority. That's how democracy works," he said, provoking a huge outcry from opposition benches.

Nkandla upgrades and development.

In October 2012, the public prosecutor announced separate investigations into the financial circumstances of upgrades to Zuma's retirement residence at Nkandla, as well as the development of a nearby town, dubbed "Zumaville", estimated to be a R2 billion investment, and road upgrades from dirt to tar. In November 2012 Zuma answered in parliament that he was unaware of the scale of the work, but agreed to two investigations, one to probe its rising costs, and another to determine any breaches of parliamentary spending rules. State-owned media have been banned from calling it "Nkandlagate", and journalists were warned not to reveal the details of ‘top secret’ documents. In November 2013 security minister Siyabonga Cwele ordered the arrest of a woman journalist of for publishing pictures of the complex, contravening the National Key Points Act.
All of these above remarks and controversies makes him a idiotic fool and absolutely unfit to be President of this beautiful country..

Epilogue:

During the 20 Democratic years of South Africa we had four black presidents. The first one should have stayed in office for another term, effectively preventing the next three useless money crabbers to take over. Unfortunately Mr Mandela declined a second term, giving the vultures the opportunity to decent on our beloved country.

The last 20 years most of the black and white people in South Africa, do not feel happy and are totally disillusioned. Corruption, ineffectiveness, misunderstanding, un-forgiveness, stupidities, blunders, racism and waste of tax money have left the country in a near war zone and prevented South Africa to grow..

I worked for Eskom almost thirty years. Eskom is the only electricity utility, supplying electricity to our country.
In those thirty years, not one single power station has been build.

When I started working for Eskom in 1984 there was an electricity surplus of about 50% of the total national electricity consumption. In 1986 the last white CEO of Eskom resigned.
His famous last words where, "Keep on building power stations at least every five years.
He was a wise man but was totally ignored by the CEO's following him in these next thirty years.

In the Early nineties Eskom embarked on a national electrification program to bring electricity to every one, as part of the ANC's popularity program. Every year more than 100 000 people received electricity at a significant cost. No power station were built in that time to compensate for these electricity increases.
In the same period Eskom wrote of billions of Rand for electricity bills who were in arrears for longer than 12 months.

In 1994 three power stations where mothballed, according to the Mbeki's government the electricity surplus was still much to high and no power stations are to be build.
In real terms we had a electricity surplus of about 35% above national consumption in 1994. still three older but still functioning very well, power stations were taken out of service, the surplus dangerously dropped to 25%. Up to 2000 the government refused to talk about building power stations.
Between 2002 and 2011 electricity demand started growing every year about 4 %.

It does not take a great mathematical brain to work out, that in 2008 we were running out of electricity.
During 2008 we experienced the first power shortness and Eskom combated these by switching off electricity to many house holds and businesses alternatively. The one business suffering the most was the mining industry and were forced to cut production by 20%.
Eskom's stance on being the cheapest power producer in the world did not attract more investments nor did it impressed the rest of the world. They changed their tune rapidly.
They started demanding electricity increases much greater than the country's inflation rates, doubling the electricity price in three years.They where paying out bonuses to top management without any demands for merits or performance.

Some unique brain in the government got thinking and decided it is time to build a power station because if they fail to do so, the economy already strained to it's limits would not survive. In 2011 they approved the building of two power station to alleviate the electricity shortness. We are now approaching 2014 and these power station are far from complete and cost all ready twice as much as was budget for.

Over the last few years Eskom embarked on a nation wide electricity reducing program, to teach people to use less electricity. They succeeded partly but at the moment we are facing power shortages again. We are still waiting for these new power stations to come on line but it seems it will take a few years longer than anticipated, due to strikes, miss calculations, money crabbing and poor workmanship.


If they only had listen to Ian McRae the last white CEO and chairman in Eskom  who with more than fifty year experience in Eskom, told them to continue building power stations, everything  would have been different much different.




Most people in South Africa have lost their identity. Crime, rape and murder are of the highest levels in the world. Unemployment is at its highest ever. The Rand is declining all the time. Prize increases are not on a yearly base, but on a daily base. We do not have enough food, we do not have enough water, and we do not have enough electricity. There are more poor people in South Africa now, than ever before. Our so called leaders are getting richer by the day. The only thing what keeps on rolling is the Gravy Train; the rest came to a standstill a long time ago. What is going to happen now that our father is dead? Are the corrupt sons of our dead father, now set free?. If so:

May God have mercy up on us...





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