The party in [drunk with] power in the [near failed] state of South Africa, is ‘cel­eb­rat­ing’ it’s cen­ten­ary this year…by ‘invest­ing’ and […] MANY mil­lions of Rands — up to a bil­lion, some ana­lysts pre­dict — most of it belong­ing to the long-suffering taxpayer.

With all of the rhet­oric, back-patting and BS being thrown about, you’d think the ANC would be able to spell the names of those they revere the most, right?

“Among black South African lead­ers, Oliver Tambo was prob­ably the most highly respec­ted on the African con­tin­ent, in Europe, Asia and the Amer­icas. Dur­ing his stew­ard­ship of the ANC he raised its inter­na­tional prestige and status to that of an altern­at­ive to the Pre­toria Gov­ern­ment. He was received with the pro­tocol reserved for Heads of State in many parts of the world.” — ANC web­site

This ad’ just pooped popped up on the local GumTree…

vin­tage 1950’s double st steel spring mat­tress
slight smell of feces

…don’t let this antique bar­gain pass you by folks! This is a vin­tage 1950’s DOUBLE stain­less steel spring mattress.

Let’s get a closer look at that beauty, shall we?

Place your order here!

It’s no secret that South Africa’s edu­ca­tion qual­ity has dropped from world class to world farce.

Effec­tu­ally use­less can­did­ates, span­ning everything from ser­vice counter per­son­nel to engin­eer­ing gradu­ates are the bane of employ­ers here today.

Examples of res­ults pro­duced in recent his­tory, like the one below, are funny in the moment but hor­rific in thought.

This is an actual CV as sub­mit­ted for the pos­i­tion of Secur­ity Guard with a firm in South Africa.

Unfor­tu­nately the source did not list an exact date.

The thought of this chap with an AK-47 scares the beje­sus out of me, but know­ing the local con­di­tions and con­sid­er­ing his sup­plied info’, I’d be inclined to give him a piece­meal job over many other job seekers, the major­ity of whom exude a sense of enti­tle­ment second to none.

South Africa recently held local gov­ern­mental elections.

True to the shitty demeanor of our *vomit* rul­ing party, the topic of choice to win the mostly poor and unem­ployed elect­or­ate was the sub­ject of toi­lets in the informal set­tle­ments dot­ted across the country.

At first, the dunces from the rul­ing party went after the main oppos­i­tion (who con­trol a key metro — and now that province) because they had appar­ently failed in their task of build­ing toi­lets in one par­tic­u­lar settlement.

The oppos­i­tion had in fact, by verbal agree­ment, com­pleted the task as a res­ult of agree­ing to build twice the ori­ginal num­ber of toi­lets in exchange for the res­id­ents step­ping in to enclose them instead of the council.

Shortly after this had been blown into election-time pro­pa­ganda, a news story broke about how an informal set­tle­ment had been without enclosed toi­lets for some years — thanks to a cor­rupt local coun­cil. This caused a major dilemma because this fell in rul­ing party territory.

Enclosed toi­lets are not lis­ted in our con­sti­tu­tion. They are not the product of any law.

As you might ima­gine, there was now one almighty stink being pro­pog­ated by the media.

As per usual, the ruling’s party sup­port­ers, led by blind faith, a dis­tinct lack of unbiased and worth­while educ­tion and BS, over­looked a prime oppor­tun­ity to stir this delight­ful brew and invoke some real pos­it­ive action on their part.

We have HUGELY pop­u­lated pris­ons — in which most of the inmates (who dis­ap­point­ingly have the right to vote) fol­low, almost exclus­ively, the rul­ing party through thick (very thick) and thin (all thick too).

Apart from sol­it­ary, most of pris­ons have the hold­ing cell type of lay­out, which means one OPEN recept­acle for the daily reduc­tion in mov­able shit.

Ever heard of them complaining?

Case closed.

Polit­ics in South Africa is a crock of.

Law is unpli­able. It has never eas­ily adap­ted to new dilem­mas, chal­lenges and quer­ies. Like­wise, law is mon­tone whilst life makes use of the full col­our spectrum.

“Sex” is def­in­itely a full col­our subject.

Many coun­tries have marked pros­ti­tu­tion as an illegal activ­ity. The usual reas­ons include dif­fi­culty in apply­ing and retriev­ing taxes (it’s always first and fore­most about the money) and the attrac­tion of other unsa­voury related activ­it­ies, such as drugs, petty theft, abuse, etc.

The prob­lem is though, where is the mono­tone line drawn in a full col­our scenario?

Observe Wiki­pe­dia (although community-based, their defin­i­tions provide a good gen­eral base)…

Pros­ti­tu­tion is defined as the prac­tice or occu­pa­tion of enga­ging in sex with someone for payment.

In con­trast, sex is defined as sexual activ­ity, includ­ing spe­cific­ally sexual intercourse.

We can see that pros­ti­tu­tion can in fact refer to many more activ­it­ies than just the act of penetration.

Argu­ably, we can list actions like kiss­ing, grop­ing, fond­ling and the like as sexual practices.

If I, as a male, walked up to a female on the pave­ment, handed her a wad of cash and pro­ceeded to fondle her breasts, would you con­sider that an act of prostitution?

If a char­ity kiss­ing booth were set up, would that be con­strued as prostituting

If a por­no­graphic shoot were tak­ing place, out of sight in order to keep within pub­lic decency reg­u­la­tions, would that be con­sidered prostitution?

If, as with my city of abode, a sex show is staged in which live sex acts are per­formed, is that prostitution?

Estab­lish­ments offer­ing lap dances and stage shows designed to stim­u­late the gen­italia are com­mon nowadays — are they guilty of prostitution?

Loc­ally, a sex TV show is in the works. It will involve con­test­ants com­pet­ing for prize money by enga­ging in lewd pub­lic sex acts. Surely this is prostitution?

TV sta­tions broad­cast shows with sexual con­tent to mil­lions of view­ers who often pay license fees in order to obtain their ser­vice. How about this?

Money has changed hands for the pur­poses of a sexual practice.

The examples abound. In the space of a few lines I have torn most of these laws to shreds.

Is that because the impact of the law is declin­ing? Mis­dir­ec­ted? Ignored? Erroneous?

Laws are a good idea, a neces­sary force and a wel­come con­trol — but as they are writ­ten by imper­fect creatures, they are exactly that: imperfect.

This post wasn’t with a ques­tion, so I have no answer for you, but I hope it has helped your thought pro­cess somewhat.

We’re quasi-intelligent creatures — not sheep. Never for­get that…

No sex please till you’re 23 — premier

2011-05-10 22:57

Port Eliza­beth — High school pupils must abstain from sex until the age of 23, East­ern Cape Premier Nox­olo Kiviet said on Tuesday.

“Sex is enjoy­ment for two minutes and that two minutes can adversely affect your entire life. My plea to you is delay hav­ing sex until you are 23,” she said at the Booy­sens Park High School in Port Elizabeth.

Kiviet said that at 23, stu­dents could be at uni­ver­sity and mature enough to make good decisions.

“At 23 you will know what to do to not get infec­ted with HIV. It is up to you to take advice,” she said, adding that life expect­ancy was going down as a res­ult of HIV/Aids.

The premier was at the school to hand over two new data pro­ject­ors and two screens which she prom­ised to buy for the school earlier this year.

Booy­sens Park High School is in the north­ern area of Port Eliza­beth, where crime, drug use and poverty is rife.

The premier adop­ted the north­ern areas as a focus area for her office after she saw the con­di­tions under which the people were living.

On Wed­nes­day, she will go to the Chap­man High School in Gelvandale to hand over a 620m secur­ity fen­cing pro­ject which she had prom­ised to erect.

Kiviet devi­ated from her pro­gramme to address a group of pro­test­ers who were burn­ing tyres nearby. She told the pro­test­ers that the Nel­son Man­dela Metro muni­cip­al­ity had built a lot of houses.

“We can­not build houses all at once. We must not behave as if we do not know that houses are built, and burn­ing tyres will not help you,” she said before urging them to attend com­munity meet­ings to get inform­a­tion about hous­ing deliv­ery and other devel­op­ments in their area.

- SAPA