Jayprog

"If the intellectuals don't take the lead morons will rule this world" Like I predicted before the worst has happened.

Because many intellectuals in Africa are not so concerned with politics, they end up at the mercy of school dropouts. A simple look at the ANC top executive shows that most of those with decision-making posts do not have college degrees. This in itself is a cocktail for disaster for such a big economy. South Africa is a complex economy that needs a complex leadership.

If someone has ever betrayed South Africans, it is Thabo Mbeki a man who wanted to steal power from the masses through manipulation. As Africans we have learnt a lesson from this event that no one is above the power of the people. Thabo Mbeki cornered South Africans by strategically positioning himself for reelection and fortunately he lost.

Mbeki is so calculating but this time he met his challenge and ended up embarrassed. The plan was hidden and the ANC members saw the plot way before the Polokwane Congress. By insisting that he (Mbeki) should run for the presidency of the party, he had positioned himself in power by creating a crisis and making an assumption that people would vote for him instead of Jacob Zuma (the Kangaman) since Zuma’s image was already tarnished (allegedly by the Mbeki administration). But one important thing prevailed, that people would not bend rules to suit a selfish individual.

Mbeki betrayed South Africans by not affording them a broader array of candidates to choose from and he has done damage to South Africa. It is a fact that not all people who voted for Zuma really wanted him to be the president of the ANC, where one is faced with two bad choices, you can select a better one out of the bad. They did not want a dictatorship to be bred from ANC circles. The traits of dictatorship start from the mere fact of failing to accept that others can equally lead any organization.

This is not the first time that African leaders have tried to manipulate people, it happened in Zambia and Namibia but it surprises me why these leaders do not learn from their neighbors. The error of dictatorship is fast going to an end and leaders should just understand that they can not rule forever.

I am happy for South Africans that they have such an efficient democratic system that begins from grassroots (political parties) to the entire government, otherwise the whole process would have been a circus like what the SADC region recently saw a week before the ANC Congress in one African country that claims to be a pillar of democracy.

Mbeki should now do the humble thing of resigning before his term ends because it is clear that the majority of people within the ANC do not agree with his ideas and they want him to go. This is the reason they did not vote for him and moreover those who voted for him are starting to align themselves to the new leader Jacob Zuma to secure their political future. As such being president of South Africa is now the hardest task for Mbeki.

While it is constitutionally right for a leader to finish his/her term there is need to have the Nation at heart and avoid petty wars and confusions within the government ranks. In my opinion no wise politician would want to align himself or herself with a losing comrade and as such there is likely going to be a lot of insubordination and the worst can be expected. It is possible that the house of Assembly can give a vote of no confidence to force Mbeki out before2009.

From Mbeki’s recent writings, it is clear that he has a bitter pill to swallow and would like to see the fall of Kangaman before 2009. mbeki would like to use all the tools at his disposal as the president to fix the Kangaman.

The above scenario in another sense is good in that it prepares the new leader to deal with major events coming in 2010 and after.

Let the Kangaman rule and I bet the good ladies of South Africa will get the good life for a price. The Kangaman has a high libido that cannot be satisfied by one woman. The Sa tax payer will have to foot the extra bill of extending the State House to cater for the extra madams and mistresses.

Prepare to welcome the first clan into the neighborhood.

‘I have decided to make it the illegal way and normalize the process later’ This is what a good friend of mine that told me before he left to a faraway country, a land of milk and honey.

Five years latter it has worked for him despite him being a failure academically. He is now economically better than me above all.

Have you ever noticed that daring illegal immigrants end up getting the good deal after all.

In the developing countries and especially Africa, many people leave their countries of origin to Europe, USA and all over to get better opportunities. To some extend this reflects on the issue of over developing and ignoring the other face of humanity.

Many recipient countries have problems with illegal immigrants, as most of these people who flee their countries of origin  in most cases do not contribute meaningfully to the economy of the recipient country when they are integrated into those societies. This to some extent is due to the fact that some will be uneducated and some criminals.

There are my ways in which this problem can be addressed. A best example of well-managed immigration is Australia in which people who can contribute meaningfully to the economy are encouraged to emigrate and then eventually granted citizenship. The crime level is still low in this country due to this well managed system.

In Africa a typical example of a badly managed system is South Africa in which the government fails to tap the vast talent in neighboring country that have their economies crumpling. As a result of this a lot of criminals cross the boarders illegally, and since they are social failures in their countries of origin, they simple continue with crime in South Africa rather than looking for employment.

No matter how governments try to fight illegal immigrants, these ‘illegals’ end up getting citizenship anyway. In the long run these criminals build their criminal empires and multiply criminal activities. This is a social and economic disadvantage that could be solved at grass route level if immigration authorities have proper foresight.

The United Kingdom experienced this type problem where a lot of illegal immigrants especially from Zimbabwe were flying into UK and settling as refugees. One has to ask a simple question of how an illegal immigrant manages to cross oceans say from Zimbabwe to UK to claim 'Economic Refugee Status' 

Common sense dictates that the first priority of anyone in economic problems is food but it baffles me how such a person manages to get enough money to pay for airfare across the Atlantic to a faraway country.

To cut a long story short, the UK Authorities quickly realized this and introduced stringent VISA conditions to Zimbabweans to curb the mass exodus. If this country had started managing immigration at an early stage, they would have taken the cream and left the junk that gives problems now.

Just like sunshine in winter, it is only for a short period and South Africa is one African country fooling itself in the middle of a crisis. Most qualified citizens are leaving the country to Australia, America, Canada you name it and the South African Authorities are busy laughing at their northern neighbor instead of tapping the quality labor.

It does not take a lot of experts to cripple a good economy; it only needs a few misguided politicians to take wrong policies and lack of foresight. In this case the mismanagement of migrants and failure to accept a serious problem like this shows that South Africa is just going the wrong way. Time is only going to tell.

South Africa’s representative to the UN security council Ambassador Dumisani Khumalo needs to be reminded that human rights abuse is a security threat to human kind and that he should not put across careless comments about the Zimbabwean situation.

 

The Ambassador told a VOA reporter on Saturday night that Zimbabwe is not a security threat and hence should not be discussed under UN Security Council. The ambassador should stop his idea of trivializing human life; the abuse of one person should be a concern to the UN especially if a government that is a signatory to the UN charter perpetrates it.

 

As an African I know the type of mentality that most African leaders have concerning the welfare of those they rule. Most African leaders do not value life and are only worried in staying in power.

 

It is slowly becoming apparent that South Africa’s representative to the UN Security Council has an agenda to create controversy by opposing the good that the other members are advocating for. He is the same ambassador who threatened to oppose the Iran issue now I really wonder if this man understands what he is supposed to do.

 

The South African ambassador should not use the UN platform to settle personal scores at the expense of Zimbabwe and the other countries that need the help of the UN Security Council.

 

The ambassador should note that opposing everything that is tabled for agenda and voting against such issues is not a solution to the crisis that Africa is facing today. I believe South Africa was not seconded to the non-permanent Security Council so that it will gang up with China and oppose good cause. Zimbabweans are facing the worst economic recession in a country that has great potential because of a few people that the Ambassador is protecting.

 

This man is not doing good to Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa and should be ashamed by his actions. Let it be known that it is the same Security Council that helped his country to gain freedom from the shackles of apartheid some 10 years ago.

 

Let us not equivocate a catastrophe of this magnitude by using figures to justify the cruelty that Zimbabweans are exposed to. Every citizen has the right to shelter, freedom, peace, food and nationality and these thing are not so abundant in Zimbabwe and they pose a security threat to the world because human beings are made to suffer by other beings who can be brought to justice by the UN through sanctions and embargos.

 

Please also read:   

http://www.huliq.com/15556/britain-wants-un-security-council-attention-on-zimbabwe