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Marginalia
Odd scraps, bits and pieces, notes from other blogs and other stuff.
“The South Africans are very backward in terms of historical development,” he told Smith. “I hate South Africans. That’s not a fair thing to say because I like a lot of South Africans but they really think they’re the bees’ knees and actually they’ve been the cause of so much trouble in this part of the world…I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they’re in power. ‘Don’t you know who we are, man?’” He continued in this vein: “I dislike South Africa for the same reason that Latin Americans dislike the United States, I think. It’s just too big and too unsubtle.”
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Two brothers from Chechnya. That was the official word early morning on Friday April 19th, 2013 as to who were behind the Boston marathon bombings. “Chechens.”
So, naturally, who do some brilliant citizens of the United States of America blame? The CZECH REPUBLIC, of course!
Here are those…
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He said, “You know, it is no good to punish people individually. You need a whole change of sistema in order to get rid of corruption.” And that is where I picked it up and I thought it was fascinating to learn what that sistema actually is. And when I started to study, I realized it is a very elusive term. It is a shorthand term for a system of governance that usually refers to things that are not to be named. It is like the open secrets of governance. That’s where we talk about “the sistema way of doing things” or “sistema pressure” on people. We never explicitly refer to what they are, but we assume we all understand what we are talking about.
And how similar to South Africa!
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So what your teacher and your mother told you is true — bad spelling is a sign of poor character!
THE Ficksburg Regional Court on Thursday acquitted all seven police officers accused of the death of local protester Andries Tatane. Regional magistrate Hein van Niekerk found the state could not prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. Tatane died on April 13 2011 after police used rubber bullets and batons to subdue him during a service delivery protest in Ficksburg. The case received huge media attention after footage of the alleged assault by police members was broadcast nationally.
Ms Ramphele said the country first went wrong back in 1994 when it “underestimated” the work needed to transform the “mind-set” of citizens from being subjects of an authoritarian regime under apartheid to becoming subjects of a constitutional democracy. “When you look at South Africa for the past 19 years you haven’t seen that activism. People move between being passive, complaining in their own homes to being publicly violent or violent within the home,” she said.
