#ProudlyBroughtByANC - THE BANANA REPUBLIC SPECIALISTS

Dear Blog Readers,

         Somebody has just sent me South Africa’s memorable achievements under the rule of the African National Congress; otherwise known as the Banana Republic Specialists.

         It’s fascinating reading, but not if you happen to live in this once thriving tip of Africa. Here’s the list with a few of my additions. It reads like a HAIRY TALE.  

1.    In 19 years of rule unemployment has shot up by 60%, one of the highest rates in the world.

2.    The country is now the rape capital of the world.

3.    Since the ANC came to power the country has achieved the dubious distinction of being 140^th for education brilliance on a World list of 144 countries.

4.    Officially the world leader for hijackings.

South Africa's new national Coat of Arms

5.    The Police Force has hundreds of convicted criminals in its ranks, some in high positions and others who had a record before they joined. Now the top brass doesn’t know how to get rid of them because of stringent labour laws that make it virtually impossible to fire anybody.

6.    In the Top Ten for most murders.

7.    In 19 years the rand/dollar exchange rate has dropped from R3.41 to R10.00 and sliding.

8.    The Defence Force has gone from being the iron fist of Africa to a laughing stock that couldn’t defend Disneyland from an invasion of fluffy toys.

It's hard work for President Zuma, running a country into the ground

9.    There are now 10 times more people in squatter camps and 1000% more illegal immigrants.

10. Government hospitals are so bad that the only one Nelson Mandela could possibly have been admitted to was the top military hospital, but its VIP units had been closed for two years for renovations so he was treated privately.

11. All kinds of other facilities such as roads and municipal services are deteriorating rapidly.

12. Electricity and water supplies are teetering on the edge of a national disaster.

President Zuma as Zapiro sees him

13. Education at Government schools has all but collapsed.

14. Unions are striking mines into oblivion and their inflated wage demands are driving other businesses to the wall.

15. 90% of once prosperous farms bought by the Government from Whites to satisfy the demand from Blacks for land have failed.

16. Bloomberg recently scored 74 nations for their “stress factor” and it’s hardly surprising that South Africa is second from the top.

Head of the Wild Life Conservation Society

17. No other country has more convicted criminals in Parliament.

18. On the sporting front corruption and in-fighting has caused chaos in the administration of soccer, cricket and athletics and probably others I don’t know about.

19. Bafana Bafana the national football team is ranked 60^th in the world and 10^th in Africa even though it has the best facilities on the continent and is the flagship of the country’s most popular sport.

20. There are so many depressing defects in the country that it’s impossible to mention all of them. 

The President with another leopard skin in his cap

Fortunately nobody needs to worry if they follow the lead of the ANC Government. All is well according to these blinkered leaders.

     President Jacob Zuma gigglers childishly on television when talking about the state of the nation. But only he sees the joke as the Rand drops.

    

 Up tight Mathale

 Then when the Limpopo Provincial Premier Cassel Mathale gets moved to a slightly less plum job as an R800 000 a year Member of Parliament, the ANC’s spin doctor Jackson Mthembu announces that the party thanks Mathale for a prosperous, thriving and stable Limpopo.

     No doubt the party would say the same about the country under Zuma.

     I’ve just given you the TRUTH about the country. Now what’s the TRUTH about the Province that became notorious for its inability to deliver text books to its schools?

   

  The opposition Democratic Alliance MP John Steenhuisen summed up the situation perfectly when he wrote: Mathale has presided over one of the most corrupt and moribund administrations in the country.

     Five of his provincial departments are under national administration, while others are under investigation for corruption. While the citizens suffer deprivation the political elite has prospered handsomely.

     The greatest irony is that Mathale’s sacking appears to have little to do with his spectacular inability to govern effectively, but rather his outspoken opposition to No 1. 

THE ONLY HOPE FOR SOUTH AFRICA NOW IS TO VOTE THE DA INTO POWER. IT HAS ALREADY SHOWN THAT IT CAN GOVERN EFFECTIVELY IN THE WESTERN CAPE AND CAPE TOWN, WHERE THE ANC WAS PREVIOUSLY MESSING THINGS UP.

     Regards,

     Jon, a citizen hoping for a miracle.