The Government Lose It Again, To Protesters

What is the government doing about the Marikana’s Protesters?

 

Angry Lonmin' Marikana mine protesters



President Jacob Zuma told thousands of striking workers at Lonmin's Marikana mine that government sympathized with them following Thursday's shooting.  The president visited the North West town on Wednesday afternoon, almost a week after 34 people were killed in clashes. Which it was not fair at all, our government takes serious issues not serious. Zuma addressed protestors near the scene of Thursday’s bloody confrontation. The week-long attacks claimed the lives of 44 people, including two police officers. After the death of 44 people all Zuma could say was “we are sorry for the families who have lost their loved once". http://ewn.co.za/en/2012/08/21/zuma-knew-trouble-was-brewing-in-marikana

 

President Jacob Zuma



This people would have not died if the government attended the protesters on time. I blame the government for the death of this people because they waited until this matter get out of hands. I mean the police know how to deal with angry protesters and they were trained how to react, and it is not for the first time South African mineworker’s protest. So the government was very negligent about this strike. They should have communicated with them on time to reduce the anger of the protesters. Our current government is too weak; all they know is corruption and talking when not necessary. 

 Zuma is the president of the country, but when  this people died he was at Zimbabwe atteding the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) Summit. Although  he had to cut his trip short following the shooting. but it was way to late. And it is not like he did not know about the strike, he knew he knew that trouble was brewing in Marikana.

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Mugabe Speak Peace Again



Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe

Who will believe Mugabe's sense?

Zimbabwe's president called for an end to violence and hostility as the country moves toward a constitutional referendum and elections, on Monday. President Robert Mugabe, 88, in an hour long address at a national shrine known as Heroes Acre outside Harare, said he wanted all parties and religious and activist groups to show tolerance for each other in the coming months. "If people have a difference of opinion and want to defect from one party to another, it must be respected and expressed in elections. We don't want any more violence or blood spilt," Mugabe said, speaking mostly in the local Shona language.

Although Mugabe was speaking sense and making peace at the same time to his people, but people of Zimbabwe find it hard to believe their President who have been Zimbabwe's leader since the country won independence in 1980. In the past he has referred to democracy as a foreign concept to Africans, and on several occasions he has said the West cannot preach democracy to him since he fought British colonial rule in Zimbabwe. So I find it surprising when he speak peace to the world, because peace goes together with democracy. And he should have spoken in a language that everyone understands.

As the leader clenched his fist and raised it into the air, the symbol for his Zanu-PF party, he reassured Zimbabweans that the image of the fist is not a gesture of violence despite its past use and forceful nature when placed alongside the open hand symbol of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic party."It was not for violence against our own kind," he said of the party's fist symbol. Amid violence in recent years, Mugabe has often raised his fist in the air as a warning to political opponents. The raised fist, Mugabe said, was used to fight colonial-era white rule and was "the punch that knocked them down."  Is his message strong enough to convince the nation? http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Zimbabwes-president-calls-for-peace-20120813

Toyko And Kgalema Fight One Battle

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale have joined forces in a bid to overthrow President Jacob Zuma at the forthcoming ANC elective conference.                                                                     



Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe

  

 Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale take on President Jacob Zuma at the forthcoming ANC elective conference. Motlanthe getting ready to be officially nominated to run for the party presidency in Mangaung in December with Sexwale being roped in as his deputy. On Friday, he gave a hint of what his campaign will look like as he fired a broadside against embattled Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga over the Limpopo textbooks scandal. Motlanthe told guests at the second anniversary of Lead SA that "The failure to deliver school books and the textbooks is indicative of a passive citizenry whose silence is complicit in the commission of such a tragic folly".  

Motlanthe's decision to attack Motshekga is the first of a series of public addresses he is going to use to boost his campaign, while Motlanthe has been treading carefully so far, he knows what is at stake politically should he challenge Zuma. If he does not win, he will lose his current positions in the ANC and the government. Hopefully the relationship 

Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale



The challenge facing Motlanthe and Sexwale is whether the two leaders can work together given the previous tension between them in the run-up to the Polokwane conference. Motlanthe attacked Sexwale's bid for the ANC presidency shortly before the 2007 conference, saying "appearing on television does not make one a leader in the ANC". http://www.sundayworld.co.za/news/2012/08/06/anti-zuma.alliance

Hopefully the communication between Motlanthe and Sexwale is built on a rock, because now they look like they speak the same language. But in this political world you can never guaranties your position until it is in your hands. Do you think Motlanthe has made the right decision by attacking Zuma with Toyko, or one is being played between them? for more information you can e-mail at, kimtim.tivani@gmail.com 

 

 

HOW DID GHANA PRESIDENT DIED?

The sudden death of Ghana President, John Evans Atta Mills  

Ghana President John Evans Atta Mills

John Atta Mills, who was elected president in the closest vote in Ghana's history and then led the West African country amid new found oil wealth, died on Tuesday, July 24 with only a few months before the end of his first term. He was 68 years old. The West African nation's presidential office said "he died hours after falling ill at a hospital in the capital Accra", but did not provide a cause. Mills, elected into the presidency in January 2009, after losing twice previously to former president John Kufuor in 2000 and again in 2004 is credited for overseeing the large oil production since December 2010.

Mills spent much of his career teaching at the University of Ghana. He earned a doctorate from London's School of Oriental and African Studies before becoming a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The president's office announced Mills death with the sad heart. Mills, who had celebrated his 68th birthday last Saturday, had won international praise as leader of a stable model democracy in Africa. Ghana remains the only Sub Saharan country that Barack Obama, the US president, has visited as part of recognition for its democratic credentials. The unexpected death of the leader of the world's second-largest producer of cocoa comes months before he was due to stand for re-election in December. http://africanspotlight.com/2012/08/how-president-john-atta-mills-died-sister-tells-it-all/   

The president's office said that "Mills died a few hours after being taken ill" but no further details were given. although death is part of life but it would have been fair enough to disclose the death of the president, because many African people are left with unanswered questions about the sudden death of Mills. or maybe the are being too enqisitive. What is your take on this issue?

Rest in Peace Mills

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