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Original Post Date: 2007-12-03 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[This is no doubt written by Jacob Zuma’s enemies. But there is some truth in it – especially the bits about communism. I think this is written in order to switch people off from Zuma by suggesting how corrupt he is going to be, but I ask you – look at Mbeki and how he supports the likes of Selebi our national Police chief who is in bed with high flying gangsters! So it begs the question: Will corruption under Zuma be any better or worse than under Mbeki? Jan]
President Jacob Zuma has taken the notion of a collective to heart and has no clear-cut second-in command to share the burdens of office in the Moses Mabhida government headquarters that were built with the help of kind donors in the beautiful countryside of KwaZulu-Natal.
It was the deputy president post that occasioned much of the trouble in the past and the new president has learned a thing or two – and consequently decided to have an empty chair at the cabinet table. Besides, he is weary of conflict and awfully keen not to upset his ex, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who some odd people thought merited the job. Instead, the Prez – as Zuma is fondly known – has decided it’s best to leave well alone and avoid anointing a successor.
The president’s redoubtable ex stayed on as minister of Foreign Affairs, not least because this ministry involves a great deal of travel, which keeps her out of the way. The Prez had to warn her to take it easy with all that strong woman stuff when she’s in places like Libya, which is often.
There was a bit of an outcry when Trevor left and the Prez knew he had to get another feel-good chap who could do the business circuit, refer meaningfully to important sounding stuff like the markets, the repro rate and so on.
And anyway, Tokyo Sexwale, a former Gauteng premier-turned-business magnate, kept on calling him and talking nonsense about having earned the number two spot by delivering swing-votes. As if he couldn’t defeat TM alone…
Meanwhile, several of the businessmen who supported Zuma’s presidential campaign were a trifle disappointed not to get the ministry of trade and industry post which in the end was given to one of his benefactors, millionaire Vivian Reddy.
Former Cosatu leader Zwelinzima Vavi became the new labour minister and ensured he was top of the cabinet pops by immediately ordering a four-day working week, double pay for all workers and several new public holidays to mark key highlights of the Zuma-era such as the demise of the Scorpions, the banishment of a dozen arms deal critics and the ousting of the lame-duck former president, who is now an academic scribbling away for obscure journals.
THE education ministry went to the SACP’s Blade Nzimande, a former portfolio committee chairman who long nurtured a grievance that he hadn’t got the job all those years back.
Nzimande hit the playground running and position papers became required high- school texts; the students all looked more cheery with bits and bobs of red brightening their school-uniforms; prescribed literature included the complete poetic works of one Jeremy Cronin while history went back to basics with lots of Marx and Engels and a bit of Gramsci for the more advanced.
Several “home boys” became part of the new cabinet.
Zweli Mkhize, former leader of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, caused an upset and was appointed health minister, selected over the former deputy minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (aka Manto’s handbag). Madlala-Routledge found her niche in the ministry of communications where her renowned ability to toy with her cellphone during meetings was not frowned upon.
The ANC’s former KwaZulu-Natal provincial secretary, ex-principal Senzo Mchunu, had thought he was destined to head education, but made do with science and technology where an air of learnedness doesn’t go amiss.
KZN ANC bigwig Bheki Cele was thought a shoe-in for safety and security, but instead he got the coveted KZN premiership so the ministry went to Mo Shaik who had dabbled in the odd bit of detection in the past. This minister was dubbed Shake-up or Omo by the media – a reference to his quick springclean of the SAPS, effected by Shaik merely meaningfully dusting off his infamous data base of alleged miscreants. He has long been advertising a post for a top cop to replace the former commissioner who upped and offed to Sicily, but so far, no takers.
With Terror gone, the good old days returned to the department of defence and the troops regularly got to hum liberation songs and wave machine guns around.
Siphiwe Nyanda came back from retirement and the defence chiefs took to beaming from ear to ear, luxuriating in a milieu where arms deals became the norm and big mouths like that ex-politician, Patricia de Lille, were appeased with diplomatic postings to far-off climes where the phones don’t always work.
Billy Masetlha too, returned to public life, replacing “Red Ronnie” as the minister of intelligence. He set about yet another revamp of the spook services, this time with a focus on practicalities such as how to do surveillance on local business figures without getting one’s cover blown; how to sift real from fake e-mails and how to identify whose laptop needs to be browsed.
Former Mpumalanga premier Mathews Phosa became the new minister of justice on the basis of his avowed determination to sort out the National Prosecuting Authority.
The justice department acquired the whole former JZ legal team as directors and the bench was packed with the hanging judges the nation demanded in a referendum held shortly after the elections.
Prison escapes became a thing of the past. A pardoned Schabir Shaik proved a dedicated minister of correctional services, not least because his first-hand knowledge meant he was brilliant at closing the loopholes in the system.
In a moment of creative flair, the transport ministry was given to another chap with inside knowledge of the prison system, former chief whip Tony Yengeni whose many past woes all centred on big flashy cars. Yengeni imposed a luxury tax on all expensive vehicles and displayed a rare commitment to ensuring adequate public transport.
Zuma’s years in the wilderness had seen several brilliant spin-doctors emerge – some were ex-journalists turned JZ aides while others were newsroom hacks doubling as imbongi. But the job of being minister in charge of government communication and information went to none other than Cosatu’s Patrick Craven. That was because during the run-up to the Zuma presidency, Craven doggedly sent out more communiques to the bourgeois media than even the DA did under the since self-exiled Tony Leon. Craven’s crackdown on the media far surpassed the dreams of his predecessor, the bolshy Essop Pahad.