SA government wants to control what you are paid

The so-called freedoms gained by the democratic elections of 1994 are in jeopardy from all fronts. Just recently a furore broke out in this country, where the ANC wants to curb free speech in the newspapers. Then, they started calling for nationalization of mines. They further also want a National Health Insurance (NHI), which you as a citizen will have to pay for, whether you use it or not!

This government, run by the ANC, now wants to tell private businesses how much of an annual increase they may give their workers, especially if a person earns a certain amount of money. The suggestion is that a cap is put on bonuses and increases for senior managers and executives that earn more than R550k ($77,588 – exchange rate per 24 Nov 2010) per annum. They further suggest that people earning less than R20k ($2,821) per month should get increases equal to inflation PLUS a real increase. On the other hand, those that earn more than R20k per month should get increases equal to inflation only.

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Airport Security: Your freedoms eroded!

Via: Criminal Justice Degree

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The Mother City (Cape Town) sells sexual perversion

Errol Naidoo, of the Family Policy Institute, has released an Action Alert concerning Cape Town’s marketing of the Mother City Queer Project, which is an annual celebration of the perverted homosexual lifestyle during December.

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Taxi drivers strike against new AARTO Act because they will lose most

Taxi drivers have decided to strike today against the new AARTO (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) Act.

“The Aarto system penalises drivers with demerit points for traffic offences. Once a driver has 12 demerit points, his or her driver's licence gets suspended for three months. A driver's licence gets cancelled on the third suspension,” writes Giordano Stolley at Mail&Guardian.

“The South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union (Satawu) is demanding that the government withdraws the new licensing system, saying that it would cause their members untold hardship and a loss of jobs.”

You see, these striking taxi drivers are concerned about the hardship and loss they will suffer due to the new law.

What they do not want to admit to is the fact that of all drivers in South Africa, taxi drivers are in my opinion by far the worst! It is true that they will suffer and experience job losses among them. In fact, many of them will experience this sooner rather than later! They drive like hooligans, and ignore traffic laws and regulations with impunity! They are in fact a danger not just to others using South African roads, but to the very passengers they transport across the country!

If there is indeed a way of controlling the taxi industry and its lawlessness, then it must be done!

I say, go AARTO!

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Will America survive itself?

I love America, and I am not ashamed of it! Even though I am a South African, I love the United States of America! Many South Africans only show disdain for America, but the fact is that most of them only know America from what they see in the movies and TV shows, or perhaps the misguided CNN news channel.

My family and I lived there for 2 years (Columbus, Ohio) and we thoroughly enjoyed it. My greatest wish is to be able to return to the U.S. in order to live there for the remainder of my life. Will God grant that wish?

Even if He doesn’t, and I never get to see the friends we made there from 1999-2000, I will always have fond memories of our time there.

So, when I read about some of the truly stupid things that the lawmakers get up to in the U.S., I feel sadness, that such a great nation could one day just be another ordinary nation on a list of nations with nothing special to offer. Yet, the results of the mid-term elections give me hope, that somewhere, in the soul of America, there are still people that have some common sense.

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Racist South African Idols judge lashes out at Idols racism

Mara Louw, who has already made several racist remarks in her stint as Idols judge in South Africa, has done it again!

In an outburst mentioned in a news article at News24, she is reported to have said:

“White people vote for white people and black people get the short end of the stick.”

She also said that “Black people don't have access to DStv. So a large part of South Africa is excluded.” That may or may not be so, however, there are a lot of up-and-coming black South Africans that are already hooked up to DSTV.

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BiblioPolit has its own domain now!

As I said at my Theo-Enthumology blog, this news is not earth-shattering, but BiblioPolit now has its own domain. The blogspot URL that readers usually arrived here through, will still function.

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Baseball in South Africa

For those in the U.S. baseball is as easy as pie to go watch. During baseball season there are games going on almost everywhere, with games in the major leagues and lower leagues happening simultaneously!

Here in South Africa, baseball is as scarce as, well, nothing is that scarce. Perhaps, as scarce as snow at Christmas! Baseball South Africa's and the South African National Baseball League (Pro League) websites are available. But you will soon notice from these, that there is not much information about baseball in the country. How lame is that?

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Paraprosdokian, Paraprosdokian, wherefore are thou?

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I just learnt a new word today! "Paraprosdokian." I know, it sounds weird, but, it is not a cuss word or even a bad word! It comes from two Greek words, παρα, meaning "beyond," and προσδοκια, meaning "expectation." It is a figure of speech in which the ending of a sentence or sentences (phrase/s) goes beyond what the listener expected. The listener would expect a certain ending to a sentence, but something unexpected is delivered after all.

Here are some of my favourites:

• Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
• Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
• I didn't say it was your fault; I said I was blaming you.
• Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
• "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey
• "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know." - Groucho Marx
• "I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers
• "I haven't slept for ten days. Because that would be too long." - Mitch Hedberg
• "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." - Groucho Marx

If you like the idea of the paraprosdokian, I have decided to create a Google List and share it with whoever cares. As I find more websites with paraprosdokians, I will add it to the list., so check it out every now and again!

HT: Dan Phillips

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Sin taxes and government's investment in sin

We all agree on one level that "sin" taxes are a good thing, because we believe that these "sin" taxes are a deterrent to buying products that fall under these "sin" tax laws. Usually, smoking related products such as cigarettes, and alcohol are "sin" taxed. Of course, we all believe that people will think twice about buying such products because of these extra taxes on them.

I am not sure that this is indeed the case! From my experience, many of these "sin" users simply cut somewhere else in their budgets in order to keep purchasing their "sin" delights!

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Join the Baby wars

Here in South Africa a total of 210 rhinos have been killed in 2010 for their horns to satisfy the 'horny' (forgive the intended pun) desires of degenerates in the far east. These lunes will pay top $$$ for rhino horn because they believe it has some kind of medicinal value and the power to give them sexual prowess. Why don't these people not just chew their own hair?

Anyway, these majestic animals are being killed for nothing! And that is a shame. And, outrage against this trade is the right response! Hence, there is a call to Join the Rhino Wars.

However, why don't these people show outrage against the vicious, conscienceless killing of another sort? That of millions of human babies every year! Enough human babies are being aborted worldwide every year to have decimated the populations of some countries!

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Something for all jelly-spined Westerners to take note of!

We cannot say that we haven't been warned! This has been going on a long time! Islam is not interested in peaceful negotiations with anyone! It has one goal: World domination!

Be Warned!

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New Gauteng number plates to launch in December 2010

The proposed Gauteng number plate system

I wrote about the new proposed Gauteng number plate system back in November 2009, and now finally, it seems that those new number plates will come into effect in December 2010.

Of course, one of the reasons that the current system of number plates have run out so soon, is because it never used vowels. The current system of BBB000 GP, doesn't use vowels. If I calculated correctly, the current system (without using vowels and excluding personal and government vehicles) can only take about 9,261,000 numbers, whereas if vowels were used it would've taken 17,576,000 numbers. Almost double the amount! Now they want new numbers which would cost people more, again!

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Show your support for the Right to Know Campaign today! ACTION item!

The South African government is busy looking at the Secrecy Protection of Information Bill. I wrote about this in my post called "South Africa soon to experience its own Body Snatchers." In this post I wrote:

"The problem with any government, is that as soon as the government starts intervening in the area of the free flow of information (FFOI), it is usually (read: almost always) because the current government (political party in charge) does not like what is being said about them. When it comes to the ANC, that is exactly the case. The ANC does not have the social make-up or maturity to handle criticism well. [...]

"A government that does not like, and cannot handle, criticism, soon turns into a totalitarianism."

South Africa is currently at a cross-roads in more ways than one, and the issue of the freedom of the press and of the Free Flow of Information (FFoI) is but one of them. However, for the South African democracy this issue rates as one of the most important, if not the most important issue.

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Torture more effective than waterboarding (or, Why Idols should be banned!)

There are many liberals, and neo-liberals, that want waterboarding of the enemy to be stopped as a method of interrogation because it is too hard on the enemy! Well, what about the unsuspecting TV watchers that must endure this? ⇓ Maybe this is an alternative as a method of interrogation!

BAN IDOLS!

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