A record was set in SA this week with it being the first time that
it has snowed in all 9 provinces at the same time. Clarens was snowed in as
were many other places in SA. Even Joburg had snow, as can be imagined much
excitement by children and adults alike. Claren’s was covered with a thick blanket
and on Face book many photos where uploaded to show all of us no longer living
in the village just what we were missing out on.
August in SA is woman’s month and 9 August is a public holiday I
thought I would re-post this post that I came across while surfing the net.
(Well worth a read and I agree 100% with it)
Take
your Women’s Day and shove it*
[Warning:
this post contains a lot of bad language and shouting. My parents should stop
reading now.]
Dear
Government (big, small, national and local).Here’s an idea. Take your pathetic,
meaningless, mind-blowingly expensive and stomach-churningly patronising
Women’s Day and cancel it. Cancel the entire idea of “women’s month”. Tell me,
what is the FUCKING point?
Trash
that ridiculous, pointless, bloated Dept of Women, Children and People with
Disabilities (how’s that for neatly categorising us little ladies – not only
does possession of a vagina constitute a disability, but vagina-owners are as
powerless and lacking in agency as children). It’s no more than a particularly
sanctimonious event-planning agency. The departmental mission? “Ooh, women and
children are getting raped and abused, they bear the brunt of criminally lousy
education and brutal poverty: LET THEM EAT CUPCAKES! Plus we’ll throw in some
glossy leaflets, and send someone in a designer suit to pat heads and make a
speech full of platitudes before we jet off for another shopping trip or
international conference.”
So
ditch the pointless sodding public holiday (estimated cost to the economy:
SEVEN BILLION). Stop bleating about the month of women. It’s PATHETIC,
considering it’s open season on South African women 24/7, year in, year out.
Our rape stats are a global disgrace (Goddess, how many times do I have to
FUCKING say this, the WORST in the world for a country not at war – the scale
is unimaginable, the suffering ditto), black lesbians have “carve me up and
smash my brains in” signs stamped on their backs, rural women and children live
in relentless, grinding misery and poverty HUGELY exacerbated by patriarchal
strictures, which are of course absolutely sacred (and the fact that the
Traditional Courts Bill, which would render these women even more helpless and
wretched, is actually allowed to pollute national airtime is a bloody
disgrace). We are failing, no, betraying, no, ABUSING children by callously
pissing away their only shot at an education, their ONLY chance of a life of
decent employment, a form of abuse that will affect girls worse than boys; we’re
losing ground in terms of infant and maternal mortality; women without cash are
being denied C-sections at state hospitals and giving birth to stillborn babies
on the floor as a result. SO DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT FUCKING WOMEN’S DAY YOU
BOZOS.
Here’s
a better idea. Instead of the jamborees and a long weekend of more boozing and
beatings and rapes, take the money – the obscene piles and piles of it you
intend to waste – and use it to fund Rape Crisis, which is having to CLOSE ITS
FUCKING DOORS because you don’t think it’s worth supporting, never mind that it
does priceless work, not just in enabling women and their families to pick up
their lives after they’ve been blown apart, but in taking an enormous burden
off both the public health and criminal justice systems. Fund the Saartjie
Baartman Centre for Women and Children, which is literally having bake sales to
keep running. All those NGOs that have lost their overseas funding because of
the economic crisis – how about funding them, the hundreds that work with the
poorest of the poor (which, SURPRISE! equates women and children), which do
invaluable work for women with TB or Aids, which support women who are raising
grandchildren, running crèches, soup kitchens, micro-employment schemes, food
gardens, hospices and all the heroic things that South African women do to keep
this country running, NO FUCKING THANKS TO YOU.
Stop
whining about the Lotto (an additional tax on the poor) and big business, and
how “they need to come to the party”. International funders have been warning
for South African NGOs for years, you’re not a baby democracy any more, YOUR
government needs to start picking up the tab for this. And so you bloody well
ought. What’s next, asking the Lotto or big business to supply the state with
ambulances?
So grow
the fuck up. Cancel the froth and bubbles. What you have reduced the 1956
Women’s March to is a travesty. That was an occasion of extraordinary dignity
and power, and we’d like to remember and honour it without having to use
sickbags, please. Lilian Ngoyi and Albertina Sisulu and the thousands of brave
women who took part that day are squirming in their graves at your appalling,
ongoing, almost CASUAL abandonment of this country’s women, especially the
poorest ones. The public spectacle of hypocrisy that is Women’s Day is just
rubbing salt into their wounds.
(my
note) If that is not bad enough see that
they are going to be building a R100 000 000 (yes 100 million) memorial to commemorate the
woman’s march of 1956, are the Frikken serious just think what that money could
buy and be used for that would
We won a Bronze in kayaking as well as a silver when Caster came
from the back of the field to finish second in the 800m
final................must say she ran her balls off to get
second.............So well done Casta well done. Oscar and the rest of the 4 x
400m relay team came 8th in the Final this after being allowed to run
after the 2nd leg runner was tripped by a Kenyan in the semi final,
so he got to run which is good, rumour has it that Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump) wants to make a movie
about him.
So SA won 6 medals this Olympics, the best ever as far as I can
remember. 3 in swimming, 2 in rowing/kayaking and one on the track, so it would seem we are
better in water than on land. Which is not what the SA navy is good at, last week
on an exercise between Port Elizabeth and Durban they managed to crash a submarine
into the sea bed (are they hiring taxi drivers for the navy now?) so now the
three submarines that cost 8 Billion rand in the infamous arms scandal are all “F#%*kd
one has been out of commission since 2007 when the person driving it hit the
quay. I found this clip about a submarine tour that was taking place in SA , read
the highlited part..................I mean where else would you be able to use
the submarine...............On a highway ?
Huge accident about 200 meters from our house on Saturday morning
that had two fire engines, ambulance and
even traffic police (must have been big to get them off their lazy asses). Seems
two youngsters came down Constance and did not realise that there was a stop
street at the bottom of the road, they then hit another bakkie at speed and
parts of car etc flew everywhere. One of the bakkies hit two pedestrians and
one of the occupants of the one bakkie had to be cut out of the car.............Fun
and excitement.
Been teaching Gabby how to ride her bike and she is doing really
well, much better than when my dad tried to teach me all those years ago. I remember
lots of crying, shouting and swearing and that was just from my dad. Anyway got
to get the basics right and then we can start going on longer rides as at the
moment Gabby is only allowed in the immediate area that we live in.
Last two day in PE it’s been windy and wet, has been raining almost
nonstop for the last 2 days.....................Please summer come soon, real
soon .
Ok well that’s about for this week, will be presenting SAMTRAC at
our PE offices for the next two weeks, so got to do some prep work.
CIAO
SPAD
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