Comments on: South African 2009 election Voters Guide http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/ Cartoon Blog on Politics, Economics and wonky Life in general Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:40:31 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: LUKANI http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1281 LUKANI Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:50:09 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1281 ANC IS THE MASS BASSED ORGANISATION, AND I HAVE LEARN AS PEOPLE'S CHOICE SOUTH AFRICANS THEY HAVE THE KNOW HOW TECHNICALITIES,AS A TRUE CADRE OF THE SAID MOVEMENT I WILL CONTINUE TO SAY LONG LIVE MSHOLOZI AWAY WITH RUDE LANGUAGE.u can't say one is a rapist as one indoctrinated narrow minded GOOOD FOR NOTHING NAIVE POLITICIAN RACISTI PAUSE.JZ 4MAHLAMBANDLOPFU............. ANC IS THE MASS BASSED ORGANISATION, AND I HAVE LEARN AS PEOPLE’S CHOICE
SOUTH AFRICANS THEY HAVE THE KNOW HOW TECHNICALITIES,AS A TRUE CADRE OF THE SAID MOVEMENT I WILL CONTINUE TO SAY LONG LIVE MSHOLOZI AWAY WITH RUDE LANGUAGE.u can’t say one is a rapist as one indoctrinated narrow minded GOOOD FOR NOTHING NAIVE POLITICIAN RACISTI PAUSE.JZ 4MAHLAMBANDLOPFU………….

]]> By: PM http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1280 PM Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:35:11 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1280 @Meady - I've heard (and seen!) that politics in Trinidad and Tobago are quite similar to South African politics. Any idea what the voter turnout is like there? And yes, we'll be producing more The Whole Truth cartoon strips once the election results are firmed up here - it's been great fun covering it with Wonkie and the comments on the blog have been eye-opening. @Meady – I’ve heard (and seen!) that politics in Trinidad and Tobago are quite similar to South African politics. Any idea what the voter turnout is like there? And yes, we’ll be producing more The Whole Truth cartoon strips once the election results are firmed up here – it’s been great fun covering it with Wonkie and the comments on the blog have been eye-opening.

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]]> By: Howling Mad Dog http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1273 Howling Mad Dog Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:28:04 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1273 And to SBbuda - I will vote De Lille (ID) ! So go do something that is phsicaly impossibe! And to SBbuda – I will vote De Lille (ID) ! So go do something that is phsicaly impossibe!

]]> By: Howling Mad Dog http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1272 Howling Mad Dog Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:25:06 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1272 Sizwe - I agree with you. I was out of line insulting someone I don't know. BUT.. I can't believe we are about to vote in a person who is as corrupt and divisive as Z. Believe it or not, this is good grounds to either buy weapons or emmigrate. My president is worse than Bob? See my problem?? Sizwe – I agree with you. I was out of line insulting someone I don’t know.
BUT.. I can’t believe we are about to vote in a person who is as corrupt and divisive as Z. Believe it or not, this is good grounds to either buy weapons or emmigrate. My president is worse than Bob?
See my problem??

]]> By: sbudda http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1271 sbudda Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:51:09 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1271 share the same sentiments with Bobo.as a young man who got benefits from AA & EE,i know exactly who I`ll vote for tomorrow.Hey you,Howling Mad Dog go bark at your fake Mama Botox Zille,maybe she`ll give you your dry bone share the same sentiments with Bobo.as a young man who got benefits from AA & EE,i know exactly who I`ll vote for tomorrow.Hey you,Howling Mad Dog go bark at your fake Mama Botox Zille,maybe she`ll give you your dry bone

]]> By: Gogo in Bloemfontein http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1268 Gogo in Bloemfontein Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:11:09 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1268 Does Pieter not know that the farmers in the Western Cape who are still treating their workers as slaves and serfs mostly belong to the ANC/NP aliance. Hellen Ziller is only in charge of the metropolitan area, for now. But as Sizwe so correctly stated, people tend to vote for who they can associate themselves most strongly with. That is why I am voting for Terror Lekota. He is a person of good character who was sickened by the blatant corruption, greed and mismanagement of the country whose liberation we all suffered for (some more than others). If you 20 year olds have the hots for the "sexiest" politician, or can associate yourselves with a man who has not been cleared in court of 783 (at least a few must be valid) charges of corruption, that is your problem. I want a president I can trust and be proud of. VIVA SOUTH AFRICA! Does Pieter not know that the farmers in the Western Cape who are still treating their workers as slaves and serfs mostly belong to the ANC/NP aliance. Hellen Ziller is only in charge of the metropolitan area, for now. But as Sizwe so correctly stated, people tend to vote for who they can associate themselves most strongly with. That is why I am voting for Terror Lekota. He is a person of good character who was sickened by the blatant corruption, greed and mismanagement of the country whose liberation we all suffered for (some more than others). If you 20 year olds have the hots for the “sexiest” politician, or can associate yourselves with a man who has not been cleared in court of 783 (at least a few must be valid) charges of corruption, that is your problem. I want a president I can trust and be proud of. VIVA SOUTH AFRICA!

]]> By: Meady http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1267 Meady Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:49:03 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1267 After all of that forgot to linke my To Be a Leader? post! :P Here it is... http://meadysmusings.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-be-leader-my-primary-and-sub-primary.html After all of that forgot to linke my To Be a Leader? post! :P Here it is…

http://meadysmusings.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-be-leader-my-primary-and-sub-primary.html

]]> By: Meady http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1266 Meady Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:47:05 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1266 I've been reading this blog off and on over the last few wks and daily recently and amusing how many similarities some more subtle than others to a certain island's politics! :) Maybe if I follow longer I'll be able to get the character traits of the African leaders etc but for now I still can't get over the after effects of the Summit of the Americas and the Latino brotherhood of Chavez with his foot soldiers Morales and Ortega...all in honour of their folk hero Fidel!:) I see Chavez as metaphorically handing out arepas (a street food), oil, berets and flags para todo el mundo…for everyone…literally translated even funnier as it would be for all the world! :) And I’m sure he hands things out literally during elections too! And now he hands out books too! Since his recent book gift to Obama Amazon reviews on that book went from about 3 to over 100 in one day! Chavez is good at making things infamous perhaps since the book actually dropped in its star ratings last I checked! :) After all he did call Bush… El Diablo...the devil. Obviously there is a certain lunacy that pervades all politics globally but it is more rampant in the developing world...perhaps although with strippers in Italy?...who knows…in some places it gets so extreme people get blown up literally in other places there is a certain Latino lunacy that you can't help but smile at! :) Even Obama had to admit that President Chavez knows how to pose for the cameras better than some of the other Presidents! :) But then President Ortega and Morales are just Chavez’s whipping boys…the power of oil I guess! I don’t know but Latin America really knows how to hero worship…Eva Peron…Che Gueverra…Fidel Castro…Hugo Chavez… Chavez is a true 21st century hero or antihero though he has taken it to the point of where soon there will be little Hugo bobblehead dolls worldwide…I’ve gotten news of people in the oil industry loving him as far off as Egypt! Hmmm…if only I could make some money off of Chavez too! Then there is the Caribbean small man approach and his begging bowl…a friend coined our Prime Minister as having Afro-Saxon pride found it funny especially coming from him who is Afro Trini so no race card there. For sure our Prime Minister totes a bible and mostly makes it that the island how he sees it Christian and creole or coco payol as I like to call it. I don’t think there is any such thing as one typical Caribbean identity although the Indo Caribbean and other minority groups always seems to have to work in the shadow to the Afro Caribbean one or in their own world altogether. To me something as a result of how the plantocracy (resulting from the sugar cane industry) evolved here. For the record I probably share in a bit of Latin lunacy myself or perhaps it’s because Cuba is located in the Caribbean but I’ve always admired some aspects of Fidel…again Obama admitted in listening to the leaders of the region…Cuba was supplying doctors to most of them! (I’m sure our PM probably whispered that he goes there for his ticky thingy too…perhaps with the majority of doctors locally being Indo in origin the PM feels safer there?) And (Obama said) the US had to realize if all they engage them in is to be against drugs and not on other things well…Fidel it is! All just goes with my thinking that people should be more for something and less against anything…have a vibe that Obama comes off that way too… Enlightening to get an insider view of elections in this other part of the world so far off from this region through this blog! Wish South Africa free and fair elections! However it seems ANC is like a certain party here too and I see some other party similarities too! But really we all need to be our own leaders especially more so in the developing world! So here’s to that if it can ever happen especially in a place where Gandhi first came onto the scene! If anyone interested can check out my To Be a Leader? blog post! Although very different in style and in much higher word count that Wonkie! After all my comment alone is longer than several Wonkie posts all rolled into one! Thanks for the fun and new window to the world Wonkie! Can I look forward to perhaps more Plain Truth cartoons post the elections? I’ve been reading this blog off and on over the last few wks and daily recently and amusing how many similarities some more subtle than others to a certain island’s politics! :)

Maybe if I follow longer I’ll be able to get the character traits of the African leaders etc but for now I still can’t get over the after effects of the Summit of the Americas and the Latino brotherhood of Chavez with his foot soldiers Morales and Ortega…all in honour of their folk hero Fidel!:) I see Chavez as metaphorically handing out arepas (a street food), oil, berets and flags para todo el mundo…for everyone…literally translated even funnier as it would be for all the world! :) And I’m sure he hands things out literally during elections too!

And now he hands out books too! Since his recent book gift to Obama Amazon reviews on that book went from about 3 to over 100 in one day! Chavez is good at making things infamous perhaps since the book actually dropped in its star ratings last I checked! :) After all he did call Bush… El Diablo…the devil.

Obviously there is a certain lunacy that pervades all politics globally but it is more rampant in the developing world…perhaps although with strippers in Italy?…who knows…in some places it gets so extreme people get blown up literally in other places there is a certain Latino lunacy that you can’t help but smile at! :) Even Obama had to admit that President Chavez knows how to pose for the cameras better than some of the other Presidents! :) But then President Ortega and Morales are just Chavez’s whipping boys…the power of oil I guess! I don’t know but Latin America really knows how to hero worship…Eva Peron…Che Gueverra…Fidel Castro…Hugo Chavez… Chavez is a true 21st century hero or antihero though he has taken it to the point of where soon there will be little Hugo bobblehead dolls worldwide…I’ve gotten news of people in the oil industry loving him as far off as Egypt! Hmmm…if only I could make some money off of Chavez too!

Then there is the Caribbean small man approach and his begging bowl…a friend coined our Prime Minister as having Afro-Saxon pride found it funny especially coming from him who is Afro Trini so no race card there. For sure our Prime Minister totes a bible and mostly makes it that the island how he sees it Christian and creole or coco payol as I like to call it. I don’t think there is any such thing as one typical Caribbean identity although the Indo Caribbean and other minority groups always seems to have to work in the shadow to the Afro Caribbean one or in their own world altogether. To me something as a result of how the plantocracy (resulting from the sugar cane industry) evolved here.

For the record I probably share in a bit of Latin lunacy myself or perhaps it’s because Cuba is located in the Caribbean but I’ve always admired some aspects of Fidel…again Obama admitted in listening to the leaders of the region…Cuba was supplying doctors to most of them! (I’m sure our PM probably whispered that he goes there for his ticky thingy too…perhaps with the majority of doctors locally being Indo in origin the PM feels safer there?) And (Obama said) the US had to realize if all they engage them in is to be against drugs and not on other things well…Fidel it is! All just goes with my thinking that people should be more for something and less against anything…have a vibe that Obama comes off that way too…

Enlightening to get an insider view of elections in this other part of the world so far off from this region through this blog! Wish South Africa free and fair elections! However it seems ANC is like a certain party here too and I see some other party similarities too! But really we all need to be our own leaders especially more so in the developing world! So here’s to that if it can ever happen especially in a place where Gandhi first came onto the scene! If anyone interested can check out my To Be a Leader? blog post! Although very different in style and in much higher word count that Wonkie! After all my comment alone is longer than several Wonkie posts all rolled into one!

Thanks for the fun and new window to the world Wonkie! Can I look forward to perhaps more Plain Truth cartoons post the elections?

]]> By: Majola http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1265 Majola Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:24:00 +0000 http://www.wonkie.com/2009/04/21/south-african-2009-election-voters-guide/#comment-1265 Pieter -- thanks and I honestly hear your words on the farmworkers and feeling the same. I don't want to make it a race issue but some people in the Cape still are living like it's life in their good old days of the Nats. Don't get me wrong though I think there is a lot of things wrong with ANC with corruption and bad control of the crime but I still think we are better offer with ANC than with the DA Pieter — thanks and I honestly hear your words on the farmworkers and feeling the same. I don’t want to make it a race issue but some people in the Cape still are living like it’s life in their good old days of the Nats.

Don’t get me wrong though I think there is a lot of things wrong with ANC with corruption and bad control of the crime but I still think we are better offer with ANC than with the DA

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