It's honestly boring being right all the time. But I bet it's a carnival in comparisson to always being wrong like the extreme right. Anyone feeling silly about taking Julius Malema seriously ? I know you should be, as it's always the cronically dumb who gets easily winded by the extremists.
In summary : Nationalisation of mines NOT A.N.C policy.
Oh it's a terrible, woeful day for all the Afro pessimists. Another crushing blow to the hopes of the kooky few who wish the worst on this country because the government is 90% black. Silly twats.
What's the correlation between the extreme right making predictions and them coming true ? A factor of 0 % ? 0.01% if I am being generous.
Ninety eight percent of people in the lowest living standards measure (LSM 1) (2% of the populace) in South Africa in 2010 were black, a new study has shown.
This was a slight decrease from 99.7 percent who were in LSM 1 in 2001, according to the SA Institute of Race Relations' latest SA Survey.
Of people in the highest category, LSM 10, blacks comprised 19 percent of the total, up from three percent in 2001.
Sixty five percent of adults in LSM 10 in 2010 were white, compared with 87 percent in 2001.
"The data shows that the racial differences have narrowed slightly, with more representation of Africans in the top LSM groups than 10 years ago, demonstrating a growing African middle class," the institute's Lucy Holborn said.
But Holborn said this was considered an under-representation because blacks made up 76 percent of the adult population.
"There has been a shift to the higher LSMs but it is still racially skewed," she said.
Living Standards Measures are a marketing tool developed by the SA Advertising Research Foundation which divides the population into segments to help define markets. It does not measure income but gathers data based on where people live and whether they own certain appliances and vehicles.
In 2001, 11 percent of adults were in LSM 1, the lowest living standard category.
By 2010, only two percent were in the lower LSM -- a decrease of 77 percent.
The proportion of adults in the top three LSM categories -- eight to 10 -- had also increased by 25 percent, the institute said.
In 2001, 16 percent of adults were in LSMs eight to 10, while by 2010 this had increased to 20 percent, or one in five adults.
I want to see widespread outcry and rejection of this type of thing. If not you will lose my empathy. No circumstances can validate this level of savage behaviour. A 77 old man ? Fuck off !
I know I'm on record for attacking the hyperbole of farm murders, but that doesn't matter a damn to this old man. Time to have a tough look in the mirror and disasociate yourself on record with this type of brutality or face alienating yourself to even the most progressive whites such as myself.
To the extreme right Afro-pessimists. I'll keep it simple.
What evidence would it take you to admit that South Africa is better of now than 1994 in the following categories :
-economy
- Average household income (inflation related)
-educational level
-services delivered to citizens (people provided with basic services from electricity, water to access to clinics and hospitals.)
-violent crime
- Road infrastructure
If I can't provide the evidence you get to change the name of my site to anything you want.
So I just got back from hospital where I had to undergoing further testing via MRI radiogram. I don't have any photos of the recent results as they are disk archived these days, but let's just say that this.....
From 2008. See that white stuff ? That's not supposed to be there. Well and now for all intents and purposes it isn't. It is pretty much inactive.
In fact the neurologist has described my treatment as "consistent with a successful treatment of an AVM."
This started 3 years ago when I underwent gamma knife radiation in south Korea. The prospective outcomes were bleak to say the least. The treatment was experimental and had shown poor odds of reducing the flow into an Avm of this size. I was effectively living with a time bomb in my head.
I still to some extent am but it's been pretty much diffused more than I could have ever hoped for. So remarkable and fortunate are my results my MD, a very analytical and rational person said "there's more than medicine at work here". I will be going to see a neurologist in Cape Town to inquire as to whether I will require any further treatment and if so what form it will take. It's quite likely that I won't require any and if I do it will be very moderate with a very high chance of total success.
I don't know why i am sharing this on this blog but i suppose with all the death wishes over the years I've had and all of the nasty comments when I was diagnosed on here, I want to shove it "in your face" so to speak. I also just sort of want to scream from the roof tops that I'm alive and have a very good chance of a future. Something I didn't dare let myself dream about a week ago.
2 days ago after I got the results and read and re-read it around 50 times and it slowly began to sink in that is now a good chance I will have a full life all the pain, fear, fatalism and existential suffering of the past 3 years just bubbled up and out in tears. I'll never get back these 3 years of dread, despair etc but it has made me a much stronger person. And it's given me a good insight into what the absence of hope can do to the human psyche. I suppose I'll leave that observation as the flimsy link to the general topic matter of this blog.
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