Its not often I am a supporter of assassination as a method to deal with a problem, but the actions of the South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang have put her up there with disgusting people like Robert Mugabe and Dr. Josef Mengele.
Manto is without a doubt the most dumb and openly corrupt health minister South Africa has ever had, (and if you know anything about our history you will realize this is a pretty tall order to achieve). In the past her actions have hampered the efforts of the compassionate and thinking world to get treatment to people suffering from HIV/AIDS, but the world quickly realized she was an agenda pushing alcoholic that had sold herself out to the vitamin companies. Manto completely threw any international credibility she had out the window at a recent HIV/AIDS conference when she suggested the use of the African potato and beetroot on suffering patients instead of anti-retroviral drugs. I will pause a moment for the reader of this article to get over their hysterical laughter. Pause. (1)
Since almost no one believed her information dishonesty and thanks to intervention from the Constitutional Court forcing Manto to hand out anti-retrovirals, this lie from her, hopefully, did not lead to too many more deaths. I wrote about this woman's stupidity in the way she dealt with the HIV/AID’s problem a couple of months back so right now I want to move forward and talk about a recent issue that would make Dr Josef Mengele proud.
The Frere Hospital in East London in the Eastern Cape has come under a lot of fire recently thanks to an exposé by the East London newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, (2) showing the dreadful conditions of the hospital and exposing the high infant death rate. How to our health minister and president respond? The normal thing any tyrannical leadership would do! Mbeki and Manto attack the Dispatch for exposing the story and then whitewash the results to pretend that everything is okay. So basically, Manto is allowing young children to die for her own popularity and our President's denialistic approach to everything. These actions by Manto are so sick and decrepit that this single act escalates her into category of, "People I would like to shoot if it was legal"
I can just imagine Mengele looking up from hell with big doe like eyes saying the words, "You make me so proud" to Manto. It’s at this point in this article that I have to use a lot of restraint from breaking out into endless sentences of profanity and resisting the urge to go out an purchase a firearm. I have major issues with baby killers.
A couple of you might wish to explain that all this information is second hand knowledge and the Daily Dispatch may have got the facts wrongs, so I thought I would recount my last personal experience with the Frere Hospital. A friend of mine, Joeleen, gave birth in that hospital a year or two back and I made sure I was there to assist her in any way I could. I remember arriving and working my way through the packed throng of human misery and on my way up to the ward in which Joeleen resided. I remember arriving in her ward and being shocked by the conditions.
Her hospital gown and bed were soaked in blood, not a single nurse or doctor was around to assist. In a bit of a panic I ran around the hospital trying to find a doctor or nurse to help her, but the time was “lunch time” and the staff were clearly not interested in helping my friend. I tried to get the required items to help clean her up but the nurses would not even give me a roll of toilet paper, so I jumped in my car, drove to the chemist and purchased all the items that she would need for both her and her baby that was to be born shortly.
Joeleen is now the proud mother of a very healthy son, and I can honestly say that it is due to sheer human endurance and not the “sanitary” conditions provided by the Frere hospital. If anything they could have contributed more towards the possible death of the infant than to the survival.
Manto is an alcoholic, as we have stated before, and her recent drinking binge (3) put her in hospital for a liver replacement (must be so great to drink through at many livers as your want because you are the minister of health). When Manto goes to hospital she only uses private hospitals (Why not use a public hospital if you believe in the system Manto?) and she was constantly requesting alcohol be brought to her hospital bed.
A wonderfully intelligent woman who was the then deputy minister of health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge was given the reigns (while a liver was being wasted on Manto) of the Health Department.
Nozizwe made the fatal mistake of actually trying to do the right thing… something Mbeki appears unable to tolerate. She believed that the Health Department needed to take a scientific approach to dealing with health issues and even used her intuition to make an unannounced trip to the Frere Hospital to see for herself the conditions in the hospital. Her report slammed the Frere Hospital for their gross misconduct as the conditions she found there were unacceptable. (4)
Her reward for this was to be fired by Mbeki for not towing the government line of denial. Her crime according to Mbeki was that she was a politician and she should not have attended a HIV/AIDS conference with only 'technocrats and scientists'. Gosh... Mbeki is an idiot.
I hope this event has woken up many South Africans who thought there was any good coming from Mbeki and Manto as it is pretty clear there is none. Manto, our lying potato pushing alcoholic is allowing babies to die for her own popularity and Mbeki who appears to have his head so far up Mugabe`s ass is allowing this to happen. Mbeki, Manto, Mugabe and Mengele not only share the letter M in their names, but also are cut from the same cloth when it comes to human right’s abuses!
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, I salute you for your dedication towards the interests of the people of my country. History will judge you kindly and the people of this country will not forget what you tried to do for us. As for Manto and Mbeki... well I am sure you and Mengele will have a lot to chat about after you die. History will remember your crimes against the people of our country for your own greed.
1 - http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A249459
2 - http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/07/31/Leader/lp1.html
3 - http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=539071
4 - http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3978278
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Leetest form of linux there is. The primary OS I now use. Kubuntu, Dapper Drake, 6.06 LTS. I really think people should use this as their default OS
For those of you who dont know, I run Kubuntu OS as my desktop OS. With all the queerness of Microsofts Anti Piracy campaign, I have decided to completely leave the MicroSoft world. Sure, I loose windows media player and some gaming choices. However, you do get awsome games like warsow that are completely open source, and LOADS of fun to play. If you are in South Africa, there is a South African warsow server gracefully hosted by Web Africa. When in the game just type "connect warsow.webfafrica.co.za" And you will connect to the server to be able to jam with the rest of us.
I consider this a book that every South African should read to get perspective in their lives. Its honesty is most refreshing and Al Lovejoy`s ability to capture in words the essence of a culture and history of a generation of south Africans is amazing. Al Lovejoy has earned a lot of respect from a generation of youth who appretiate the truth. Thank you Al.
Other reviews:
‘Acid Alex is quite simply one of the most shocking autobiographies I have ever read. It is also well-written, addictive, excellent.’
– Sue Blaine, Business Day
‘Heartbreaking! Entertaining! Intelligent!’
– Erns Grundling, SL magazine
‘Nothing I have read has sketched the scorched social landscape of South Africa’s last half-century with such intensity and honesty. Read it.’
– Charles Thesen, Marie Claire
‘There are elements of Hunter S Thompson, Herman Charles Bosman, William Burroughs and William Wharton. But in the end it is an amazing story told in a unique voice. A voice moulded by pain, a voice honed by a government reformatory..., whetted by the SADF, and sharpened by Pretoria Central.
It is the story of a man who went to hell and came back, a morality tale, a Bildungsroman, the narrative of a f*ckup who found redemption, and the anthem of a lost generation.’– Caspar Greeff, Sunday Times
‘Truly, as Koos Kombuis says, this is “an astonishingly breathless story” … Besides being a great read, Acid Alex is an invaluable record of a type of mania that gripped a certain type of South African in the last quarter of the 20th century. It’s a book that’s going to appeal to many young South Africans who currently have to turn to the United States for their myths of pointless excess, and it’s going to inspire them. Not necessarily in a particularly savoury way.’
– Chris Roper, Mail & Guardian
This book is more than just a suggested read.
In what has to be a remarkable show of insight into the power of social networking, a British Indie band is offering their album free to download off their website. This is one band, that seems to have googled it. It looks like the older corporate models are failing and hopefully the world will not have to tolerate the insanity that is RIAA much longer.
I love artists with scope.
South Africa needs science and South Africa needs prominent scientific voices. Unfortunately, like the media in much of the rest of the world, South Africa's media is not nearly welcoming enough to the skeptical and scientific views of the world. Luckily, we have great examples from the United States and elsewhere of how self-publication through blogs can affect public discourse, promoting science and acting as a counterweight to indifference, ignorance, and gullibility. However, unlike our comrades elsewhere, South African science bloggers are unconnected and not organized. I propose to change that...Read More
Really funny flash video depicting the end of the world as the result of a nucleur fall out.
For those of you who dont know, I am South African. Im a born and bred white native african, and damb proud of it. However, I will often use words that you may not understand, local slag u wont pick up on. Click on this link to learn a little more about South African slang, aka, Safrikan!
The entire catalogue of information from 1,800 courses at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be available free online by the end of the year. Once uploaded, it will represent one of the internet’s most important resources.
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I never have never used a search engine this cheeky before :) Its great fun for about 10 minutes.
Seaward.co.za for South Africa`s best coastal real estate.
In what has to be classed as bizare, a clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's swamps.
I came across this site by Anup Shah that has a detailed look into the causes of poverty. I found some of the statistics he shows to be very embarrassing and a shameful reflection on humanity today.
* Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
* The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
* Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
* Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
* 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).
Anup Shah shows us the institutions, policies and people behind many of today's causes of poverty.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp
Haha, these poor lil bunnies. A bunch of pictures of bunnies trying to come up with imaginitive ways to kill themselves.
The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. A most excellent link for those of you wanting access to some amazing science.
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Ever wondered how many babies are being pushed out every day, or how many people are dying every minute? Well this is the place for you then! This meter currently records those tpes of things, and with a population of 6.5 billion, there are lots of interesting stats for you to check out.
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