Late again - that means I either have a lot of work (re. stress from work) or our government hasn't done anything to seriously get my attention. It could also obviously mean that I just can't be bothered with what's going on in this country of ours.

If you'd like to see what we do in this part of the world, visit my all new blog. I've posted some photos there as well & will update it from time to time. You can also use this blog to post some feedback, or use the message board below.

Mbeki fired our deputy health minister because she's "not a team player". What that means to us is that she doesn't share his or the health ministers' views on HIV/Aids. She's been active (very active) in getting and keeping the ball rolling on combating this disease and now got a kick in the butt for it. This is the party that most blacks voted into power. And Mbeki talks about "caring for the nation"?

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge also investigated the high infant deathrate at the Frere Hospital in July and found the facilities in a shocking state. Of course our own Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang found nothing of the sort after announcing her intentions of visiting the hospital. Isn't it better to arrive unannounced and see what the real situation is? Mbeki fired Madlala-Routledge after her surprise visit and after he declined her request to address a conference hosted by the International Aids Vaccine Initiative in Madrid, which she attended anyway. Now that's gutspa - do what's good for the people and bugger the consequence.

Government insists that they're pushing ahead on all their previous election promises but says that these things take time. Can they even remember what they promised? How many of these promises failed to materialise or were scrapped being too ambitious a project? Have they moved onto simpler projects like changing street and town names? Are their efforts aimed on destroying Afrikaner morale instead of caring for their people?

Which reminds me of the protest action organised in London by a group calling themselves "act4sa". Some 600 people organised a march to the South African embassy protesting crime in South Africa after a mate got shot and killed when robbers sprayed a restaurant with AK bullets in Durban. Obviously the ambassador snubbed them saying that they're pulling the situation out of context and that crime isn't really a problem. Our president won't admit to the problem and the ambassador (being the team player he / she is) of course won't either. With 2010 around the corner, who can blame them?

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