My President

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Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma was elected president of the Republic of South Africa by parliament following his party's victory African National Congress (ANC) in the 2009 general election. Zuma has faced a number of allegations before being elected as a president; such as the racketeering and corruption charges with his then financial advisor Schabir Shaik and a rape charge in 2005

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 According to Elena Fuzier Cayla of the Cape Chameon, Zuma is declared the most controversial president in the history of South African politics especially regarding his private life as a polygamist.



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His reign is dominated with corruption by his cabinet ministers and officials in state departments. In recent years his leadership skills have been critisized for the remarks he made some of them include:

• the gay and lesbian same sex marriage comment he made at the Heritage day celebration on 24 September 2006 in Stanger
• His solution to teenage pregnancy- young girls being forced to get degrees after having babies
• The ANC rulling until the second coming of Jesus
• The sarcastic remarks he made at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton about the Afrikaans community being the only race that did not get a chance to carry two passports-but to name a few

He is now being even more critisized for the way he currently handled the issue of the e-tolling system in Gauteng and a lot of citizens passing grieviences of the ANC not considering the views of the public. This Monday (19 March 2012), the tabloid newspaper Sowetan will be launching a debate about political leardership in South Africa and critically assessing his leadership. This debate will see participation from top commentators and analysts. The public will also be given a chance to contribute their views via email at tellus@sowetan.co.za

What I am interested to know is, do you think Jacob Zuma is a good president? and do you think this debate about his leadership skills will give the ANC good or bad publicity? Let's talk...

Goodbye Juju

The topic on everybody's lips at the moment has to be the expelletion of ANC Youth league president Julius Malema.

The 29 February 2012 saw the disciplinary commitee of the ANC dismissing Julius from his position as ANCYL president due to the fact that he was fomenting divisions and bringing the party into disrepute. Many citizens have found this to be good ridance hence a lot if his comments were propagating racism. Among the accusations he was found guilty of includes; the statements he made at a rally in Kimberley last year May that whites should be treated like criminals for stealing land from blacks, comparing the leadership of current president Jacob Zuma and that of former president Thabo Mbeki and the statements he made about bringing regime in Botswana. Well, it is said that he has 14 days to appeal the decision that was made against him.

 From a PR point of view, the ANC did a great job, their deed of letting him go will get ANC a thumbs up from the general public because a lot of people were very unhappy with him. To be honest he was famous for all the wrong reasons but at the end of the day he made his mark- to a sense that he bought back the youth's attention to politics which was something that was rare nowadays, and yes he did have to go because in the process of his leadership he was also being a bad example to the youth.

Now the question I want to ask though is: do you think the ANC made a good decision by letting him go or will this be the beginning of a never ending war between him and the ANC and its members? Lets discuss this...

Rhino poaching: Who is to blame?

 

It is astonishing to acknowledge the fact that in the 21st century, there are still people from western countries who are firm believers of superstition. According to Kenneth R. Weiss of the Los Angeles Times, 450 rhinos were killed in South Africa, merely for their horns.

Nations like China, Vietnam and Thailand have a belief that rhino horns can cure cancer. It is common knowledge all around the world that Africa is rich in natural resources/treasure and we have a lot of game reserves, which has caused a large demand for rhino horns from Africa and them being killed without any remorse.

Thus these actions have raised a lot of questions and debates as to; who then kills these rhinos? As much as we Africans are raising a plea and campaigns against the killing of our national treasure, we are as much to blame as the westerners. The Chinese may create a demand but they do not really fly down here and kill the rhinos themselves, truth is there are some greedy SA poachers who roam among us and kill these rhinos in exchange for a quick buck from the rich Chinese.

The facts are out there, we can debate amongst each other about this issue the whole day but these rhinos are still being killed out there everyday and there are in a verge of being extinct- question is...

WHERE TO FROM HERE?

Did the SA media go too far?

WAS THE MEDIA UN-AFRICAN ABOUT PUBLISHING THE ILLNESS OF NELSON MANDELA?

When looking back at the oldern days and how Africans used to live and do things, we learn that the illness of somebody was not something to be disclosed in public until it reaches a point of death. Some things were kept private and respected to a certain point

Last year we saw the media splashing the illness of our former president Nelson Mandela in front pages like it was tabloid news. Some were puzzled as to why is the media publishing this information,whereas some felt it was their right to know since he is a public figure and an icon from Africa

Well, times have changed and so has the media. Privacy for public figures has become a thing of the past, but this practice often backfires because they sometimes publish false information and then they get sued. I believe that his illness should not have been published to the public because it was really irrelevent information for us to know, his family needed to deal with this privately and that should have been respected

There are much more serious issues that are affecting our society that the media needs to write about so that the government can attend to and Nelson Mandela's illness is not one of them.