Goodbye KFC

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I cant believe this. Well actually I can. KFC has always been a guilty pleasure of mine but not anymore. I simply cannot condone a company that does this kind of thing. It has no respect for its produce which to me means it has no respect for its customers.

Please somebody tell me Nandos dnt work this way.

Mandela Speaks

What is going wrong?

Something is going seriously wrong. Why the ANCYL needs a leader like Malema I cannot understand. I know that there are still dedicated, intelligent comrades in the ANCYL who if given the chance can be great leaders like Vuyiswa Tulelo, so how did we end up with Malema and what exactly can Malema do for the youth of this country? What went wrong?

My faith in the ANC is really being tested.

Malema see's a hopeless situation in the country. This is the only explanation for his tone and demeanor. He is set to "kill" and he is set to for yet another "revolution". Unless I have been fast asleep for the last 14 years the revolution has taken place and we won. What we need know is concentration and effort to ensure the revolution is not unravel through loss of focus and mediocrity.

What we need know is for an ANCYL president who can mobilise our youth to build the country, to study hard, to work hard to get thier asses into gear so that the country is bettered.

So, let’s see, who are those who are to be killed?
Xolela Mangcu

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I CANNOT say I know how to kill. I have thus been racking my brain lately trying to imagine what lurks in the mind of would-be killers Julius Malema, leader of the African National Congress Youth League, and Zwelinzima Vavi, secretarygeneral of the Congress of South African Trade Unions.

I presume the first order of business would be identifying who is to be killed. We can of course speculate on the targets. It’s really easy, actually. We can do a sectoral analysis of who the enemies of the revolution might be — the same as the enemies of Jacob Zuma. Given that this is grave business I would not dare to mention names but the targets are all those who have been deemed to be persecuting Zuma. I think it is also fair to speculate that a couple of judges, including judges of the Constitutional Court, would be strong candidates. Then I am sure there are those members of the media who have been writing all those nasty op-ed pieces and columns about Zuma.

Folks, you better start going through your writings to see whether this is not the time to issue apologia. As for me, I’m not sure. Sometimes I’ve defended the man and sometimes I’ve excoriated him. But for those in the business of killing there is no time for “on the one hand he was with us; on the other hand he was against us”.

Then there are all those women who marched against Zuma during the rape trial. They know who you are, and they will be coming for you in the dark of night. I am sure the list of possible victims is inexhaustible.

Let us then move on to consider the method of death. Will Vavi, Malema and their gang of warriors shoot the enemies in the head even as they plead for their lives? Or will they dismember them in full view of the world to teach others a lesson? Will they set them ablaze in the manner of Ernesto Nhamuave?

And will they laugh around the burning bodies while singing revolutionary songs? Or will they simply do what many leaders did during the 1980s, which was simply to issue orders to the foot soldiers. In those days the leaders could still go around sipping champagne at society gatherings, knowing full well that the killing machines were in full swing in the townships.

Like Liberia’s Charles Taylor, the leaders can now still go about their business knowing full well of the death and destruction. Occasionally the cellphone will ring and they will politely ask to be excused from the dinner table so they can get progress reports from the killing fields.

But then again I do not know what it must be like to snuff out someone’s life, whether in defence of the revolution or of a friend or a comrade, or for any reason for that matter. I suspect I was never much of a revolutionary in that sense.

To be sure, oppression has forced groups of people to take up arms because they had no choice. But there is something fundamentally sick about a so-called democratic society in which so-called leaders speak so casually and brazenly about the ready availability of death as a method of settling political and legal disputes.

Our leaders have over the years shown us how to be immune to death. People have been dying every day in our communities — from the scourge of HIV/AIDS to the brutality of Zimbabwe to the criminality and the celebration of burning bodies. So when we begin to die at the hands of the revolutionaries there will be nothing extraordinary about it. And it will be just another day on the job for the revolutionaries. If they play golf, which I suspect they do, it will be par for the course.

But you know what? There is a part of me that says the sooner they bring the death the better. Maybe that will be our baptism as yet another African country that could not resist the postcolonial propensity for violence. A baptism by fire for sure, but a baptism nonetheless.

But the question will always linger: how did a once proud freedom movement become a party of death?

Beyond Milk Cartons: Keeping kids safe in a digital world

If you are a parent who allow their kids onto the Net, this is a must see video. Even if you don't have kids this is a must see video.

A Google Policy Talk exploring the mission and challenges of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Karmic Consequence

The concept of Karmic Consequence has been playing on my mind a lot recently. There is nothing revelatory in the concept of Karmic Consequence, what's interesting me is the idea of pursuing positive Karmic Consequence. Should one bother about this? Should this be a naturally occurring event that requires no premeditation?

We all try on some level to do good and put out good into the universe. But should we be trying to do this intentionally? Should we be analysing (or over analysing, which ever the case may be) this? If you wish to perform an act of generosity should you consider the impact and extend of that act or will simply performing the act result in the same degree of Karmic consequence?

In a way it's almost trivial to consider Karmic consequence if all actions of a similar kind have the same weighting in consequence. But looking at the concept in another way - assuming the weighting is different - you can see how profound the results could be.

Does keeping ones mind on the Karmic consequence distract one from living in the present?

So many questions, so much to think about.

Love Love Love

My new favourite song is the Lenny Kravitz tune Love Love Love. I find myself in the lyrics and the groove of this song, and its a good feeling.

Don't need no television
Don't need no movie stars
Don't need custom private planes
Don't need no politicians
Don't need no stocks and bonds
Don't need no cars or boats or trains
Don't need no diamond jewellery
Don't need no rare cigars
Don't need no magnums of champagne
Don't need no penthouse mansion
Don't need no Paris fashion
Don't need no shiny golden chain

There ain't nothing you can give me I'm already there
I got love
I got love love
I got love love love

Don't need no plastic surgery
Don't need no country clubs
Don't need no butlers, cooks or maids
Don't need no marijuana
Don't need no ecstasy
Don't need no blow or sleeping aids
Don't need no personal trainer
Don't need no fortune teller
Don't need no job that gets me paid
Don't need no more religion
Don't need no air condition
Don't need no one to get me laid

There ain't nothing you can give me I'm already there
I got love
I got love love
I got love love love

Your ways are never ever static
You're always keeping it erratic
I want you to know I'm emphatic
About your love that's enigmatic
You, me and God makes three
My eyes are open I see
Oh baby don't you understand

Don't need no private island
Don't need no chandelier
Don't need no million dollar view
Don't need no helicopter
Don't need no magazine
Don't need nobody else but you

There ain't nothing you can give me I'm already there
I got love
I got love love
I got love love love

You're all I need
Oh yeah

There ain't nothing you can give me I'm already there
I got love
I got love love
I got love love love

Damn Butterflies

Sometimes doing the right thing means doing nothing at all. Sometimes doing something is the wrong thing.

I've been contemplating this.

I've been contemplating the conditions under which intervention would be acceptable. Is intervention ever acceptable? I've never been one to stick my nose into other peoples business unless it directly impacted on me.

Intervening takes a lot of work. But then I consider this: if we are all interconnected then surely not intervening in someone elses predicament (I'm not thinking of anyone in particular) will have a negative impact on you? I am chasing Lorez's butterflies very hard on this one.