‘Lethu Mshini Wami’

‘Lethu Mshini Wami’
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15h49 Wednesday
24, February
2010
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machine gun, president, kloof street, cape town
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  1. lebogang nkoane

    *he got acquitted on the rape charge —

  2. Sthe Ngcobo

    How did he go abot getting acquitted Lebogang?
    Anyway,I feel where you coming from Onelove.......
    Question: is the guy in the background homeless?
    ( seeing he has no shoes on )

  3. Uno

    Wow! There's so much to comment here... love the poster on the foreground and the smaller "man on the street" on the backgroung, that says a lot by itself.
    As for JZ, there's no doubt about it, my first impressions (since the accusations with S. Sheik started (while he was still the deputy president of the ANC) haven't changed: the man is an incompetent gangster with no governing capability.
    There are positive and negative aspects about it though, on one side there are all the ANC/government national/international credibility issues, the examples to our youth, the cultural smoke screen (isn't fathering children in extra-marital relationships immoral in any south african culture?), the unaccountability, the incompetence, the inequality and so on and so on... on the positive side, if he was smarter and more restrained (read less obvious) we wouldn't know half of what he gets up and he would never get exposed... and that's about the only positive point I can find :(

  4. Palapala

    So I will comment on the photographic aspect, because I not be right for me to judge the President Zuma, despite having my opinion.
    The photograph itself what I liked most was their environment and message for the photo pass.
    Surely some others do not admire him and others they love.
    The politicians in my view leave much to be desired.
    Um abraco

  5. lebogang nkoane

    @sthe — that's simple: the courts acquitted him.

    I have a problem with still calling somebody a rapist (or any other criminal act) after that person has been found not to be guilty of the crime — unless you HAVE evidence that can be presented in a court of Law (of this land) to prove otherwise, till then, what the courts say is what is.

    Alas — I generally do not engage in debates that do not ask questions, but pre-suppose ideas, thoughts or opinions as fact.

    With that, I'm getting out the ring.

  6. onelove

    @ Lebogang
    You're absolutely right it is unfair of me to bring up the rape or corruption trial (acquitted of rape and corruption charges dropped). That statement might not have been the most helpful way to consider issues of leadership. Also it probably provides less space for people to engage with the photo in their own way. So I've removed it.

    The reawakening of these issues for me stemmed from an article I read in last weeks Sunday Times (Feb 21): “The Big Interview: we go inside Zuma's head” by Wally Mbhele and Mondli Makhanya, especially the first part of the article: 'Its time to talk about our moral code'. I couldn't help but think back to the controversy that surrounded him and his current 'scandals' (referred to in article above), it makes me seriously question his suitability to run such a dialogue.

    @Sthe to be honest I wasn't sure whether he was homeless or not.

  7. lebogang nkoane

    onelove — it's all love.

    I hear you.

    I think UP put it right: if he was smarter and more restrained (read less obvious) — but alas, morally debatable person cannot be the person guide and re-sow the same moral-fibre he was lost.

    Although, I haven't read the article (i barely read *hides) — I would agree that J/Zed is probably not fitting to be running our country — but at the same time, I do not think most of use voted for him — the 62% of those that voted for him would disagree with us though, morally conflicted or not.

    Maybe 5-10% might have changed their minds by now — but I think J/Zed does not speaks to us nor does he intend to speak to the black-middle-class (i am generalising here), his constituency is not in the same class that we are speaking from, I think, and I suspect they might see him rather fit to govern — a suppose being a baby-daddy does not affect one's position to function in a given role. (shrug)

    Alas — my subconscious mind tells me that all this drama is a smoke-screen for what is really happening. Yes, I like conspiracies.

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