SA: Democracy or Idiocracy ?

Do watch the comedy movie titled: Idiocracy starring Luke Wilson.
It projects a future where the world is run by stupid people...



In South Africa the future seems to have arrived, and there is nothing funny about it.

How dare I make such a blunt statement, and who exactly am I taking potshots at here ?

Well lets first start with the voting public of South Africa.

The cornerstone of Democracy is that each and every person is equal and therefore has an equal vote. This means that someone living in a shack, that is illiterate (and therefore never even picks up a newspaper), completely uninformed, under nourished with an IQ of 85 will carry exactly the same weight as someone with a double doctorate in Economics and Political Studies.

Now lets see, which of these two groups are better represented in our population:

"...that of the slightly more than 26
million adults in (people aged 15 and over) about 12 to 13 million of them had less
than a full (grade 9) general education, about 7.4 to 8.5 million of these had less than
grade 7 (often used as a minimum education level indicator of sustainable functional
literacy) and about 2.9 to 4.2 million people had no schooling at all (and were
presumably, by definition, illiterate)."
source: http://www.info.gov.za/otherdocs/2007/developmentindicator/education.pdf
& http://www.aldsa.org/survey/2001%20census.html


Now lets look at the people that have been elected by our not-so-smart masses, and have been placed in positions of power to rule over us all and to manage our resources to our collective benefit.

Because I don't have access to all our senior government people's IQ scores, I will simply quote a few words from each or give examples of things that they have done, and let you dear reader decide!

Minister of Health

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang: Presented beetroot and the african potato as an effective treatment of HIV (as an alternative to anti-retrovirals) at a world health summit. She was also fired from a position of hospital super intendant on account of theft. There are rumours that her recent liver transplant was needed due to excess drinking, and that post her transplant she has been drunk on several occasions.
http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n03_14082007.htm
http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=45477,1,22
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=316773&area=/insight/insight__international/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=316780&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=316785&area=/insight/insight__comment_and_analysis/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=316575&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=316582&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=316491&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/


Top judge Hlope
Incompetent and Corrupt
See the following:
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=436240
Racial split over Hlope:
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=293522&area=/insight/insight__national/

Minister of Justice responds rather inaptly:
http://www.sabcnews.co.za/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,115217,00.html

http://www.jacobson.co.za/2006/12/is-the-judicial-service-commission-worth-its-salt/
http://www.jacobson.co.za/2006/12/judges-under-the-spotlight/

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=313662&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/


National Police Commissioner
Jackie Selebi: Ties to the mob
http://iafrica.com/news/sa/429648.htm
http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3340730
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=292261&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=289534&area=/insight/insight__national/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=285288&area=/insight/insight__national/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=273445&area=/insight/insight__national/
http://www.blogsouthafrica.net/2006/11/17/the-selebi-enigma

Ekurhuleni metro police chief
Robert Mcbride: faces charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, defeating the ends of justice and fraud. McBride also faces alternative charges of reckless or negligent driving, conspiracy and incitement.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314495&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314476&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/


Safety and Security MEC (Eastern Cape) Thobile Mhlahlo: Charges of firing gun in public area whilst drunk, assualting a group of youths, and fails to appear at his court appearances:
http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2005/02/02/news/n11_02022005.htm

Safety and Security Minister
Charles Nqakula

The ex national chairman of the SA Communist party. A communist. Literally.

Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula has provided Parliament with inaccurate crime statistics when replying to questions, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said.
He has also been accused, and later threatened with court action if he keeps refusing to release crime statistics, by the FF+ party.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Charles Nqakula, South Africa's minister for safety and security, has a message for people complaining about his country's rampant crime rate: You can pack your bags and go.

"The whingers [complainers] can do one of two things. They can continue to whinge until they are blue in the face -- they can be as negative as they want to -- or they can simply leave this country," Nqakula announced during a budget speech to South Africa's parliament in June.


http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=900
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=316765&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
http://www.24.com/news/?p=ra&i=276554
http://www.24.com/news/?p=tsa&i=576921
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/national.aspx?ID=BD4A541161
http://www.sateenz.co.za/index.php?name=Forum&file=topics&p=496424&DC100SID=d4166a59682374f20d1fc9e5d4e6b1b2


Former deputy president of South Africa
Jacob Zuma: Sacked after allegations and trials relating to corruption and rape.
In his rape trial he alleges his reason for showering after having sex with a woman that he knew to be HIV positive, was ironically to reduce his chances of contracting the disease.

President of South Africa
Thabo Mbeki: Denied HIV causes aids, but later changed his stance. Initially pretented that crime problem was not real but merely a perception. He has been neglecting the crises in Zimbabwe.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=316822&area=/insight/insight__africa/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/720995.stm
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=298350&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5019687
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/TheVault/Article.aspx?id=383295
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Columnists/Hogarth/Article.aspx?id=402010
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Columnists/Hogarth/Article.aspx?id=419760
http://www.da.org.za/da/Site/Eng/campaigns/reportcard2005.asp
http://www.iolhivaids.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=2911146&fSectionId=1593
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=527054
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2001/03/19/features/AMBEKI.HTM
http://health.iafrica.com/doconline/hiv_and_aids/hivcauseaids.htm
http://www.maverick.co.za/opinions/837447.htm
http://www.homecomingrevolution.co.za/?page=2&category_id=96&related_id=2005
http://www.24.com/news/?p=ra&i=637611
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A540175
http://www.iol.za.org/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=ct19991030202224543A2362669
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page66309?oid=146432&sn=Detail
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20070727182024906C902367
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=542611
http://www.tac.org.za/newsletter/2000/ns000606.txt
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pubs/umrabulo/umrabulo27/art1.html


The consequences of having incompetent and morally inadequate people elected into positions of power are
- Massive breakdown in services
- Corruption
- Rampant Crime
- Lives destroyed