Can Somebody Please Explain

[Beast_Power]

Can somebody here please explain to me, WTF the majority are thinking. And please I do not want this thread to become about racism or stereotyping.

The majority are protesting about bad service delivery from the municipality, So they burn down the Mayors House and the Municipal Buildings in Ratanda. Today still protesting they decide to burn down one of my friends businesses including all the business vehicles and the workers vehicles. The business was on the side on the industrial area, neighbouring Ratanda, what kind of a mentality does this.

They want better service so they burn down the infrastructure WTF.

My friend is in a state as he took out a loan on his house, and sank their life savings into the business in November 2011 to get it up and running.

 

[herr bmw]

im speechless,really.

sometimes i dont know if it worth staying in sa anymore

 

[Wick-ed]

Government is to lenient with those #@*&!!!!! :argh: I really prefer the previous in how the operated their justice system.

 

[whattingh]

everyone doing bad have to much rights protecting them.

I the usa the cops and very harsh on criminals but a cop that go to far without reason is also nailed. That is what we need.

 

[Twinz]

Its shocking and sickening. Not the protest against bad and poor service delivery but the lawlessness that accompanies it. :nonono:

 

[whattingh]

also there is a lot of people out there that have the mentality of If I cant have it you cant have it

 

[prospect]

That's insane! I think they looted shops as well.

 

[Rammlied]

Wow...I am really sorry to hear about your friends business.

Bunch of savages. :thumbdo:

 

[Sankekur]

It is the same mentality that made people burn down the pretoria main station because the trains were late :nonono:

 

[moranor@axis]

this makes me very sad :nonono:

 

[gconry18]

There is ONLY one solution for these people to stop. It involves a big sealed chamber that will be filled with lots and lots of gas.

 

[prospect]

It is the same mentality that made people burn down the pretoria main station because the trains were late :nonono:

Let me guess...Transnet/Gov repaired it instead of letting the idiots suffer by leaving it burnt down? :blab:

 

[herr bmw]

just saw this on tv,and it looks like the police just stood around and did nothing:thumbdo:

 

[Sankekur]

It is the same mentality that made people burn down the pretoria main station because the trains were late :nonono:

Let me guess...Transnet/Gov repaired it instead of letting the idiots suffer by leaving it burnt down? :blab:

Yeah pretty much.

 

[AshG108]

Monkey,s barbaric monkeys, whether black, indian, white, coloured, or flipping San or Koi, if you behave like that, you are classed under barbaric monkeys not even normal monkeys!

to call them monkeys, is even in insult to the poor animal:thumbdo:

 

[prado]

EDUCATION!

In many ways, the previous rule and the present did very much the same thing - not educating our nation.

Previous - a certain group had inferior education to stifle thinking. Since 1994, the entire education system was stifled to stop people from thinking!

Think about it - a new education system that was a failure since its inception - chopped and changed year in and year out until its final demise this year. By the way, our education was a reject system thrown out by most of the civilised world.

I have seen the deterioration of learning over 17 years - state schools are no longer places of education. What kind of education system have we had if people think in this way today?

No real teacher training colleges any longer, the youngest SA teachers are in their 30s because no one wants to teach in our ravaged schools, no form of discipline, and resources mean someone makes money by getting book contracts every year, no failing of obvious failures, no guidance at schools, no focus on gratitude but 'rights, rights, rights' and just plain frustration!

These savages are a product of our non-existent education system. They have been in schools somewhere between 1994 to date.

But who to complain to? Let's just hope and pray there is a higher power that can make even savages learn something about life - and respect.

How ironical to see this barbaric ingratitude on the eve of Human Rights Day, in memory of 69 people who were killed fighting for the rights these savages have today and wouldn't recognize those Human Rights if it smacked them in the face.

Aaah, our beautiful, sunny SA! :nonono:

(edit: and they all want to drive BMWs - the monkeys can't even spell B M W!)

 

[zaleonardz]

At the end of days, at the end of time.
When the Sun burns out will any of this matter.
Who will be there to remember who we were?
Who will be there to know that any of this had meaning for us?

And in retrospect I'll say we've done no wrong.
Who are we to judge what is right and what has purpose for us?
With designs upon ourselves to do no wrong,
running wild unaware of what might come of us.

The Sun was born, so it shall die, so only shadows comfort me.
I know in darkness I will find you giving up inside like me.
Each day shall end as it begins and though you're far away from me
I know in darkness I will find you giving up inside like me

Without a thought I will see everything eternal,
forget that once we were just dust from heavens fire.
As we were forged we shall return, perhaps some day.
I will remember you and wonder who we were.

 

[Budleigh]

I usually find that when someone prefaces their post with the disclaimer "I don't mean this to be racist, but...", then it usually ends up being just that. You might want to alter your thinking slightly - there are many of us in "the majority" who don't burn down buildings or barricade highways to protest things. This is a poverty issue, and the fact that the poor/underserviced will be mainly Black in a country with South Africa's history is an incidental point.

Obviously you find it puzzling - it's baffling because you're not in their situation. It's very easy to sit and suggest that people should be logical about their grievances - I know, because I'm guilty of it all the time. But when you're in that sort of situation, anger tends to foment and express itself in destructive ways - the same way Council kids on English estates vandalize property and commit other crimes. It's a global phenomenon that expresses itself via particular symptoms for each unique country.

And yeah, it's frustrating to watch, but once we're done being frustrated, what then?

 

[CyberMatix]

Well this is just my Western Liberal view on things FWIW.

We live in Africa, and in Africa the African culture prevails. We can try and impose Western Liberal concepts such as Democracy, Rule of Law, Work Ethics, Don't Lie, Steal or Murder, and all other such nice things, but the bottom line is clear - it simply doesn't and never will work. The African culture is more about raw tribalism, survival of the fittest, Big Men, and I'll kill you before you kill me.

In fact the concepts of democracy, rule of law, etc, is just used by the Power Elite to entrench their power, and enrich themselves.

What confuses me is that in all other countries in the world protests like these are labelled as "anti-government" protests, but here in good ole SA they are magically "service delivery protests". WTF.

The choice is quite simple IMHO, either suck it up, or go and live somewhere else that is not in Africa.

 

[Budleigh]

Well this is just my Western Liberal view on things FWIW.

We live in Africa, and in Africa the African culture prevails. We can try and impose Western Liberal concepts such as Democracy, Rule of Law, Work Ethics, Don't Lie, Steal or Murder, and all other such nice things, but the bottom line is clear - it simply doesn't and never will work. The African culture is more about raw tribalism, survival of the fittest, Big Men, and I'll kill you before you kill me.

In fact the concepts of democracy, rule of law, etc, is just used by the Power Elite to entrench their power, and enrich themselves.

What confuses me is that in all other countries in the world protests like these are labelled as "anti-government" protests, but here in good ole SA they are magically "service delivery protests". WTF.

The choice is quite simple IMHO, either suck it up, or go and live somewhere else that is not in Africa.

Crazy Man say wut?