South African President Jacob Zuma gave his State of the Nation address yesterday (SONA).
I'm guessing it was a very short speech seeing as there is hardly a nation left to give a speech about.
Zuma had hardly started with his lies when the Economic Freedumb Fighters (EFF) - they of the red overalls and maid uniforms fame, led by the honourable Julius Malema - were rounded up and thrown out of parliament by "security forces" for ignoring the Speaker. The EFF red mining hats went flying.
Here are two videos you can watch: HERE and HERE
See, the EFF had asked when Zuma will pay back the money he owes to the South African tax payers for the mansion they unknowingly built for him. Zuma of course doesn't want to answer that question so he had the security forces ready to intervene.
So out they went, tossed out like yesterday's bathwater, with the Democratic Alliance also walking out on their own accord, stating that they would not sit and listen to Zuma after the police security forcefully removed the EFF. They demanded to know if the men in black and white assaulting the EFF were police in drag, a question which of course was never answered.....
Yeah, the DA know they could be treated the same way next time. Ask an uncomfortable question and out you go - removed by force. It's only the ANC members who applauded what was going on - they are that dumb. They can't see that a precedent is being set. A precedent that was never set under Apartheid South Africa. If anyone can remember when the security forces were called to remove another political party from parliament during Apartheid, let me know.
The ANC even jammed the mobile signal in parliament so journalists couldn't live-report what was going on inside.
This from a political party which promised to rule for all and embrace real democracy. It seems they forgot to give their definition of democracy at the time.
One day someone should dig out those old ANC pre-election speeches made by the Dead Terrorist in 1994, where he repeatedly said how the ANC would rule for everyone. It should be a laugh-a-minute - comedy gold - to listen to old Purple-Lips lie his way to an historic election victory.
So, the SONA circus is over for another year.
But, don't be fooled. The EFF are doing exactly what the ANC need them to do - trash the joint. The ANC voters who are disenfranchised with their beloved party will naturally migrate to the EFF. The EFF are just the ANC-lite, just more radical and with a different logo and leader, and there to mop up the lost ANC votes.
What is of more concern though is what Zuma said in his speech.
Another R23 Billion (~$2.3 billion) goes to the non-electricity provider Eskom. This after they can't even keep the lights on with all the money thrown at them to date. This would be shocking, but South Africa can't even afford electricity to be shocked by their leaders anymore.
Just how much of that R23 billion will be lost? How much will be pillaged? Idiots. It's easy to be Father Christmas when someone else is buying the presents.
Next in his speech was the nod to the "we want free land" crowd, with his continuous land-redistribution talk:
Calling land a critical factor in achieving redress for the wrongs of the past, he said foreigners would soon no longer be allowed to own land in South Africa but instead be eligible for long-term lease. "In this regard, the Regulation of Land Holdings Bill will be submitted to Parliament this year," he said to applause from the ANC benches.
Ah, redressing the wrongs of the past. The same clap-trap from the whiny Blacks and their gripe about land possession. They had land for centuries which they did nothing with - except ruin. As they ruined an area they moved on - like the nomads there were. Then they had land under Apartheid - millions of hectares of some of the most arable land in the country - given to them to do with as as they pleased and they couldn't even grow a corn plant on their own, let alone feed the millions of hungry mouths.
No, for that they came over the border to where the White man lived, so he could look after them once again. Give them jobs, food, health, school, because they couldn't do it for themselves.
And when their numbers exploded on the back of the all-caring Whites, they demanded their "land" back.
Yet the White farmers, dealing with some of the most desolate and drought-prone farm lands managed to become productive, successful farmers. Now the Blacks want that land as well. Voetsek.
When it takes 10 of them to change a light bulb and one White person to do the same job in half the time, then you know you're dealing with a populace of nincompoop IQ67s.
So now foreigners will not be allowed to buy land, and SA citizens will be restricted to 12000 hectares. And the ANC government? How much land will the ANC be allowed to own??? The ANC are the largest land-owners in the country, yet not one word about giving any of that land to 'redress' the past.
And then Zuma gives the first clue on how he's going to get hold of land:
The new legislation would overhaul the tenets of redistribution and introduce a ceiling of land ownership of a maximum of 12,000 hectares.
"Once implemented the law will stop the reliance on the willing buyer-willing seller method in respect of land acquisition by the state."
And there you have it. Your land will be forcefully removed from you by the state.
And that signals the end of South Africa.
If the useless ANC haven't learned anything from what's happened in Zimbabwe when the government got involved in private ownership of land, then what chance has White South Africa got under a bunch of IQ67 Mamparas? And there are many millions more of them compared to Zimbabwe.
This is the commie way. Your farmers are the first ones targeted. Once the commies control the land, they control the people.
Hat tip: Julian B, Nick A, ANC DNA Unwrapped
Johannesburg - Protest and violence overshadowed President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation address on Thursday night as the Economic Freedom Fighters carried out a threat to confront him on misspending on his Nkandla home and were manhandled by police in the National Assembly.
As riot police dragged EFF MPs out of the chamber and down the corridor, the Democratic Alliance walked out and accused the ANC of becoming as oppressive as the apartheid regime.
It left Zuma to announce a R23bn bailout to crisis-ridden Eskom and an expected ban on foreign land ownership while most attention focused on the EFF leadership, who detailed their injuries and denounced his government on the steps of the assembly.
"Whether they beat us or not, we'll continue to ask relevant questions," Malema told reporters in drizzling rain, the T-shirt under his red overall torn at the neck.
"We have seen that we are part of a police state where when people are unable to give political answers, political solutions to political problems, they resort to security apparatus and we've always said the ANC has sent South Africa into a security state, so today it was confirmed."
Fifteen minutes earlier punches and hard hats flew as police surrounded the EFF benches after Malema, Chief Whip Floyd Shivambu and spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi defied orders from Speaker Baleka Mbete to leave the chamber.
"They grabbed [Godrich] Gardee first, they hit him," Western Cape EFF leader Bernard Joseph said moments after the brawl in which he took several blows as well, while his colleague Emmanuel Mtuleni said he was punched in the face.
"They moered me."
The trouble began soon after Zuma took to the podium as Gardee rose on a point of order, demanding: "May we ask the president when he will pay back the money in terms of what the public protector had said?"
Mbete allowed questions from Shivambu and then a belligerent Malema, who made it plain that he would not rest until Zuma had answered the question the EFF first put to him on 21 August.
She told him to leave and then invoked the Powers and Privileges Act, first calling in protection staff and then security officials. Moments later police surrounded the EFF benches, and fighting began in an echo of the chaos of 13 November - the first time in history that riot police had entered the chamber.
Ndlozi, who said he was briefly throttled, said he believed the EFF had managed to deliver the comment it wanted about Zuma's leadership while Shivambu commented: "Next time we will come armed."
In the meanwhile, Zuma focused on energy and land redistribution as key priorities while warning that country's aim of achieving a growth target of five percent in 2019 where at risk.
He said stabilising Eskom's finances was a priority and acknowledged that the supply disruptions "are an impediment to economic growth, and are a major inconvenience to everyone in the country".
Zuma said government had a nine-point plan to "ignite growth and create jobs".
DA's walk-out
This also included revitalising agriculture, advancing the beneficiation of minerals and encouraging private sector investment. Calling land a critical factor in achieving redress for the wrongs of the past, he said foreigners would soon no longer be allowed to own land in South Africa but instead be eligible for long-term lease. "In this regard, the Regulation of Land Holdings Bill will be submitted to Parliament this year," he said to applause from the ANC benches.
The new legislation would overhaul the tenets of redistribution and introduce a ceiling of land ownership of a maximum of 12,000 hectares.
"Once implemented the law will stop the reliance on the willing buyer-willing seller method in respect of land acquisition by the state."
Before Zuma resumed his speech after the EFF's removal, National Council of Provinces chairwoman Thandi Modise justified the presiding officers' decision to eject the EFF by force.
"We are also empowered... to ask for security -- whichever security -- to act... I think we should allow this house to do its business," Modise said.
This prompted the Democratic Alliance to walk out, with Chief Whip John Steenhuisen telling Sapa: "I think the EFF was wrong but two wrongs don't make a right.
"We had to walk out, it is not acceptable that the ruling party violates the Constitution and the separation of powers by sending police, which fall under the orders of the executive, into the National Assembly.
"This government is adopting the tactics of oppression against which so many of them spent their lives fighting."
Cell phone jammer
Earlier, Steenhuisen and DA leader Mmusi Maimane beat the EFF to raising a point of order when they rose to accuse Parliament of scrambling the cell phone reception in the assembly, preventing journalists from broadcasting directly from the chamber.
Mbete said she would ask her office to inquire about the blackout, which had seen journalists wave their cellphones in the air before the joint sitting began, chanting "bring back the signal".
Ndlozi seconded the demand and asked that the Speaker also call orderlies to bring MPs water, quipping that Parliament was facing a "service delivery crisis".
Minutes later, Mbete announced that "the scrambling problem has been unscrambled" and cellphone feed was restored.
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