Hi Jan,
you mentioned that didn’t watch an episode of the atrocious Apprentice SA… good for you.

It was politically correct that:

1) A black person won (well golly gee! surprise, surprise! Really didn’t see that one coming… really…) That was to keep the show from being racist.

2) The person that won was a WOMAN… so that they wouldn’t offend the feminists and other women in the country… after all, making a MAN win would have been sexist!

3) Here’s the best part… not one person won… TWO people! Two… black… women! This was probably done so that they wouldn’t ‘offend’ the loser… wouldn’t want the loser to feel bad. Sexwale’s reasoning:
HE COULDN’T DECIDE BETWEEN THE TWO!

Sorry, but if you’re the chairman of a massive company, you kind of have to make those kinds of decisions…

It was an absolute disgrace to watch. The worst being his “advisor” – the woman looked like she was 20 years old… but she knew EVERYTHING of course!! Naturally, Donald Trump actually WORKED to get where he is… so it’s not surprising he knows what he’s doing and knows what he’s talking about.

Keep up the EXCELLENT work!

Hi Channing,
Thanks for filling me on regarding what happened on SA’s pathetic Apprentice.

I have many comments. I agree with most of what you say.

I actually watch Trump’s The Apprentice because like you say, Trump actually worked his way up in life to get where he is. Those Americans compete heavily against each other… In that country, in many ways, the best man wins. Maybe not always. Maybe there is their form of nepotism too – but compared to the flagrant nepotism over here – America is pretty free and very competitive.

Now let’s start with Tokyo Sexwale. How did he become a multi-millionaire? Well… as I see it… he was working for the ANC – that’s how. Ditto for Ramaphosa and every other one of them. Not ONE of them was actually a BUSINESSMAN – like EVER. They were in politics and then they walked into business and white people HANDED THEM MILLIONS BECAUSE THEY WERE BLACK.

And why did white people hand them millions on a plate? Because the ANC made laws that punishes white people if they DON’T hand over part ownership of their companies to blacks!

So in effect, they became rich because of Racist Black Govt legislation.

So how on earth can you compare Sexwale with Trump, or to Steve Jobs or any other American multimillionaire or billionaire?

Guys like Ramaphosa… were raised on Karl Marx. What do they know about capitalism, or free market enterprise? What do they know about selling? Or building a business or customer service? They were involved in bombing places – they were politicians and terrorists and when they made money… it was ultimately the product of their politics and their terrorism.

So what is Sexwale or Ramaphosa gonna teach me about economics? I’ll bet with my high-school education I know more about free market economics than they do.

So what am I going to learn from their experiences? Bugger all.

I watched Trump’s The Apprentice because I wanted to see what Trump had to say. What had he learned from a lifetime of doing business?

Not to mention that New York is one humming city… driven by capitalism…

Johannesburg… was a hive of capitalism once – 20(43)+ years ago. But not today. Today everyone is PC. In the company I work for, which has a turnover of billions… we had a course… I kid you not. In this course they wanted to tell us why we come to work. Yeah. They told us… (and whites ran this thing)… that we come to work because we love our work and because we want to do good things for other people! Actually… I go to work for a monthly pay cheque, and the company I work for, exists in order to make a PROFIT. BOTH those things… were sidelined with a whole lot of psycho-babble intended to convince us that neither of these things are very important. So what’s the CRIME in making a profit? Well… apparently… this is a crime, and we must all pretend we’re working in a capitalist business for any reason except that. What junk!!

I just couldn’t see myself watching Sexwale without wanting to throw up. What “wisdom” is he gonna pass on to me? He’s a black man who “made his money” by being black and by having a Govt that blackmailed whites to give him money. That is of no use to me.

What pathetic pearls of wisdom could Sexwale cough up? Er… this is how you plant a limpet mine… don’t press this button or else you get blown to smithereens? When you want to burn someone to death… make sure the tyre is level so the petrol doesn’t run out on to the ground? When you want to win at elections, you must ensure that you have organised your teams of cheaters carefully and you have ensured that you have whole boxes full of votes nicely folded!

These people have never even spent a decent day in an honest job… what are they going to tell us?

I couldn’t imagine the kinds of pathetic tasks they would give the teams in the streets of Johannesburg.

Trump’s “The Apprentice” you must admit has a strong sense of CLASS. They live in fine quarters, they rub shoulders with the best. They work their butts off… they do bold tasks. I just CRINGE at the thought of the pathetic tasks they’d be given here… ESPECIALLY in this country where the masses don’t really believe in capitalism.

re: Two winners
I agree with you. He couldn’t decide between the two… he couldn’t do the primary thing… which is to make difficult decisions. Trump never chose two. He only wanted one.

re: Two black women.
Did you think the black women were actually the best… or do you think it was angled so they’d win?

Women can do no wrong in modern society…

re: His Advisor
You kid me… 20 years old? What a joke.

I come across blacks all the time, wet behind the ears, with a fresh education… moving into the real world. They know nothing.

Well, I don’t get MNET so I never even had the chance to watch it – and even if I did I wouldn’t have.

I watched 2 episodes of Survivor SA – not toooooo bad. But… pretty boring compared to the American survivor.

The Americans do things on quite a big scale and they jazz it up and make it exciting. We can’t compete with that.

But hey… why can’t we think up something of our OWN? What’s wrong with our own brains?

Take a look at Noot vir Noot (Note for Note) – that Afrikaans musical game show which is the longest running TV show in this country’s history and which I believe is now syndicated in Germany – I think. Now that is original. Someone here came up with his own idea… which ROCKS… he made millions and he produces (in Afrikaans) the single most popular show on TV that has been running for what – 20(43)+ years? It draws audiences like never before – and kills all other shows dead. It even draws in non-Afrikaans listeners. He didn’t have to crawl across to the USA for inspiration? He did his own thing.

But have you noticed… that when the whites were around, driving things, this country (and others in Africa) had their own character, their own originality… and they rocked. But the blacks are pathetic parrot-like mimics. If they don’t mimic Karl Marx then they mimic Trump – but that’s all they are – mimics. No originality.

They are doomed forever to be followers – never leaders. And when they do try to lead… they always head in the direction that leads to disaster!

They will NEVER be first at anything because they’re always copying others.

But we were and are, different. We think our own thoughts.

I reckon the upshot of it all is that from my perspective, I cannot see how we can LOOK UP to them as LEADERS… because they don’t stand out. They’re not above average. They can’t inspire because they don’t know what inspiration really is.

But deep down… some blacks know that they could look up to whites and that’s why Colonialism worked. Jan.