Bomb blasts and earthquakes in one day in Delhi, crime stats finally are made public, a new chief justice and World Literacy Day and Spring Day, the Rugby World Cup kicks off and God made me write this week’s, Weakly Report….I was reading the TIMES OF INDIA on Wed night to make sense of what was going on in Dehli after I heard about a terrorist attack in the high court and then tremors and an earthquake…. It was only a few hours later and the above mentioned newspaper had already incorrectly measured the force of the earthquake by publishing the figure as 6.6 on the Richter scale… This speculation would have caused chaos amongst locals who were running out of their houses and NRI’s wanting to know more would have been left astoundingly misinformed. It was later confirmed as a 4.4 magnitude earthquake on a television channel. Why a publication of this caliber would choose to publish speculation is beyond me – but then again, watch that television channel whose calling letters start with the same “ND” as Durban car registration plates… I found that everything on that channel is presented as breaking news… By the looks of things, their “Breaking News” will soon cover people who “Break Wind” as well…. What a load of flatulent broadcasting…. !!
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has revealed the annual crime statistics at a briefing in Pretoria earlier this week. "It is perhaps worth mentioning that during the 1994/95 period our murder ratio as a country stood at 27 000," he said. What do numbers from nearly two decades have to do with today? You guess is as good as mine…. Murder is however down, 6.5%.... quick check if there have been any unreported murders…. Just like rapes… The number of reported rapes rose from 55 097 to 56 272.
Refer my previous blog about Womans Day and all that other crap we waste money on in August… Whatever we have been doing as a country is certainly not working because the abuse/ violence and rape have increased…
Cosatu has welcomed the drop in crime rates, particularly the 6.5% drop in the murder rate…. Great news indeed, its nearly the same %age increase they went on strike for….
I saw a flyer the other day which was most informative and described World Literacy Day and National Book Week to great extent…. Well done to the govt member for the initiative… Only thing is how does a citizen who cannot read benefit from this fancy, full color and rather expensive flyer…?
Sooooo – the convicted and guilty party stands in the dock during his trail and suddenly blurts out “God spoke to me...” or perhaps “God made me do it...” – and it seems like a miracle but he gets off his charge with no sentence what so ever.... Why?????
I am glad you asked – when you are the president of the country, you can take people out of jail when and as you wish, they can live a life of luxury at the expense of the state by simply falsely claiming to be terminally ill... and then you can appoint any person you want – whether the rest of the sane citizens disagree – as prezzie you can appoint who you want, where you want and nobody can do anything...... me thinks this may have something to do with a forthcoming national election..... Ssssshhhhhhhh!!!!
Somebody as religious as Mogoeng is fighting so hard to justify himself for a Chief Justice position. He is fighting to be in a position where he would be constantly judging others wrong or right.First they get rid of the scorpions. They shut down the arms deal investigations. they try and force a government newspaper onto us because they don't like what the media says about them, they try and push through this secrecy bill, then a few months ago the prezzie says he doesn't like the fact that the judiciary sits above the government and has power to overrule his decisions, just because parts of them may be illegal. Suddenly 2 months later we have the prezzies completely under qualified and blatantly inappropriate choice for this position, and then following what would ultimately be a disastrous interview for 99.9% of people, the council approves his nomination.
To me being Chief Justice and being as religious as Mogoeng is basically conflict of interest.
Its almost 10 years since the twin towers fell, Amitabh Bachchan will appear in his first Hollywood film alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's version of The Great Gatsby and Darren Scott should be fired, castrated, hung upside down, inside out and then necklaced (with perlemoen shells)... because he said similar things as Julius Malema....
Go figure – it is the Weakly Report and here’s hoping it makes your stomach a bit stronger as you kick back to watch the 2011 Rugby World Cup kick off....
Peace...
