lumukanda
16-07-2009, 07:55 AM
as many of you are no doubt aware, south africa recently got it's own idiot president in the form of jacob zuma, accused of corruption and rape but never tried because the trade unions and it's youth league threatened to make the country ungovernable if he was found guilty, in fact the said they would 'take up arms for zuma'.
zuma was being investigated in relation to the so called 'arms deal' whereby south africa bought a whole bunch of planes and naval vessels from a french company in exchange for kickbacks for some of the ANC's top brass, most notable Zuma, who was deputy president at the time.
the guys doing the investigating were called the scorpions, they were not cops but acting under the office of the public prosecuter, so in theory they are 'independent' and for a long time it looked that way.
they raided zuma's houses, charged the national police commissioner, jackie selebi (who was also the head of interpol at the time) with corruption relating to getting kickbacks from one glen agliotti, a crime boss in south africa and were investigating a host of ANC members for corruption.
but alas, it was not to be, the ANC 'decided' that the scorpions were 'counter-revolutionary' (yes, they actually talk like that) and were part of a conspiracy to put zuma behind bars and they had to be disbanded and with their parlimentary majority, that's exactly what they did.
about a week ago 'the Hawks' were announced, they would also be fighting corruption but would be under the police services, with a head 'deployed' by the ANC, i bet they won't be going after senior officials, but they have started nabbing home affairs officials and corrupt cops, most of the probably acting under the say so of their superiors.
but the bit that blew me away was when i saw the hawks' logo :
http://albums.24.com/DisplayImage.aspx?id=0f311f50-4cac-493b-a7bd-fdc7e0ebfdd7
mmmm, where have i seen that before?
http://albums.24.com/DisplayImage.aspx?id=7936ed40-bca7-4d16-9722-86e94dd6a0dd
so fuck the new, free south africa, but don't tell that to the average south african, you're being negative, racist and counter-revolutionary!
zuma was being investigated in relation to the so called 'arms deal' whereby south africa bought a whole bunch of planes and naval vessels from a french company in exchange for kickbacks for some of the ANC's top brass, most notable Zuma, who was deputy president at the time.
the guys doing the investigating were called the scorpions, they were not cops but acting under the office of the public prosecuter, so in theory they are 'independent' and for a long time it looked that way.
they raided zuma's houses, charged the national police commissioner, jackie selebi (who was also the head of interpol at the time) with corruption relating to getting kickbacks from one glen agliotti, a crime boss in south africa and were investigating a host of ANC members for corruption.
but alas, it was not to be, the ANC 'decided' that the scorpions were 'counter-revolutionary' (yes, they actually talk like that) and were part of a conspiracy to put zuma behind bars and they had to be disbanded and with their parlimentary majority, that's exactly what they did.
about a week ago 'the Hawks' were announced, they would also be fighting corruption but would be under the police services, with a head 'deployed' by the ANC, i bet they won't be going after senior officials, but they have started nabbing home affairs officials and corrupt cops, most of the probably acting under the say so of their superiors.
but the bit that blew me away was when i saw the hawks' logo :
http://albums.24.com/DisplayImage.aspx?id=0f311f50-4cac-493b-a7bd-fdc7e0ebfdd7
mmmm, where have i seen that before?
http://albums.24.com/DisplayImage.aspx?id=7936ed40-bca7-4d16-9722-86e94dd6a0dd
so fuck the new, free south africa, but don't tell that to the average south african, you're being negative, racist and counter-revolutionary!