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Dr Rashube

Can you define a counter revolutionary in the context of South Africa politics even before you look at if from a global arena? At what point do you break even between a counter revolutionary and a progressive revolutionary? Remember to deal with these issues from an era of a democratic dispensation not in an epoch of waring factions.

I am now giving you simple Std three questions to define a counter revolutionary. Give 5 characteristics of a counter revolutionary. Where does the term "counter revolutionary" comes from?

Msuthu thank you my Brother. We need to be patiently giving lessons to the political illiterates so that tommorrow we do not regret and say why we did not provide direction to the lost son's of Africa. By then the country will be in tartas*s.

Africa

Spare ur intellectual capacity for better use this Dr cant match u.So do us a favour just ignore him and dont dignify him with answers he doesnt deserve them.

Africa

No amount of counterevolutionery tactics will stand in the ANC's way. period

Rashube

What split are you talking about? I have given you my vivid purpose of joining COPE and its not gonna be changed by people who think us joining was a pressure from forces that have no bas*is. My conciousness is clear and will remain clear. So long as the ANC bows to pressures of different groupings indicates lack of leadership.

You cannot have 5 men being heads of one family because they are all men in a family. There must be a person giving direction even if you perceive it as unpopular. For you to please every jack jill will render our constitutional democracy a mockery. The one that is starting to develop. Everyone will just blow his/her hot air on the bas*is of what he/she dreamt last night.

You will soon realize that leadership and populism are extreme ends of different sized coins. When running a government you have to follow strategies and policies that define the path you are going to walk and not just wake after holding a meeting over a bottle of whisky to decide to change those instruments.

I still maintain you still need to learn the machinery of government and its authoritative nature lest you want to see SA being a banana republic. Change does not just come over night, it is a painful process that requires perseverence.

People want service delivery not this crap of going around thanking them for voting the ANC. You will soon realize that TM was a leader not a stooge. A leader is able to stamp his foot on the ground and say no, not because is arrogant but is informed by issues after as*sessing the ground.

As leader you do not succumb to pressure groups, they will always be there and can easily destroy what you built over years over night. It is very easy to collapse a state, its matter of taking uninformed decisions that have a long term effects on your day to day operations.

Yeah! the taxi groups bargained over a non-decisive leader before elections now they are claiming the whole cake. They will not listen to the new Minister because they were promised by the President. What will you say? Read about America's 19*30 depression that is the collapse of the economy.

One of the reason was to satisfy popular decisions that landed the country into a complete economic collapse. This must a compendium for whatever actions you perpetuate to foster. Ask Zimbabweans as to what happened when they were asked to confiscate farms and what is the situation as of now?

Bake the pie and eat it. Popular decisions always have unpopular endings. Take for instance strikes that end up with a "No work, no pay". They are legitimate but to prolong them can have negative duotones for the workers. Wafa! Wafa!! Taxi business. The chickens are coming home to roast.

You will one day say those COPE comrades were clever to have pre-judged the consequences of populism.

Added by: Letsholo Mojanaga on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 at 11:28:14 AM

National Taxi Alliance Demands 1OO% ownership of BRT. Let me just remind people why NTA has the audicity to do this and I posted on this site before the election when Pres Jacob Zuma halted BRT after meeting the Taxi bosses that this will set a precedent. Why Pres. Zuma succumbed to pressure?

Lest we not forget that these guys, KwaZulu Natal Taxi Alliance, a branch of NTA in KZN, went on a strike for two days in August 2OO8 to support President Jacob Zuma when he appeared in Pietermaritzburg court to have the decision by the NPA to prosecute him declared unlawful. Some of us questioned why President Jacob Zuma allowed himself to be as*sociated with NTA, but insults were hurled at us and we were called all sorts of names. The reason we asked the question was because all South Africans knew that the NTA was opposing the Taxi Recapitalization Project and also it has also refused to sign the Sectoral Determination Act which regulates employment conditions within the Taxi Industry. This Act is key to create an environment for decent jobs within the Taxi Industry. The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU), a COSATU affiliate, has been fighting for a recognition agreement with NTA and some of us where surprised to see champions of workers rights, Mr. Vavi and Minister Blade Nzimande, marching hand in hand with KwaZulu Natal Taxi Alliance during Mr Zuma’s court appearance in Pietermaritzburg . The center is not holding and anarchy will prevail

Africa, S'phokazi and Roswika

For as long as you deny that Cope put us in this situation, you will also find it difficult to accept that there are leadership squables within Cope and that sooner or later you are going to split.

Dr Rabushe

Are you a real doctor or a fake doctor? Because from what I can deduce you are now pushing the mistakes done by the ANC in the last fifteen years to one individual. What was he leading a Thabo party or an ANC?

The econmoy of this country is performing very well because of his leadership and you are saying he failed you on OSD. Maybe you need to be given lessons as to how government function. In governnment there are Ministers responsible for every department and matters relating to that department. The President receives reports from the Ministers and act accordingly. We have never a President who will be like a holy spirit running up and down responding even to issues that have people to manage. We will wait and see what your President will do once everyone starts complaining.

He will be a holy spirit.