Monday 15 March 2010

I love this f'd up place...

Was wafting through youtube in search of entertainment and came acorss the late great Lucky Dube. All the irony of posting music by someone murdered in this country , in the aim of celebrating how wonderful this country is, is not lost on me.

But Lucky Dube was just far too brilliant and wonderful a man to allow his legacy to twisted and distorted into any message other than love and redemption.

So once again...I urge you to visit the music of mister Dube. And hopefully find a little of the message of tolerance and love I do.








(That ones a little personal and probably not representative of his best work)

I couldn't be more invested in hope, care and love than I am with this stupid quirky country. It's a wonderful way to live your life : To fight against the odds. To piss in the mouths of gawking cynics. To align yourself with the hapless and hopeless. To build something from nothing. Bury me right here in Africa. Beautiful , complex , aching Africa.

A long time ago I failed to launch a forum to discuss these things. I thought I would give it another go. So why not sign up here and let's get some momentum going where we can talk about the state of this country. Put it up on your site/blog etc.

Here's the place ---> Spankwhitey.proboards.com

9 comments:

Lisa said...

"Beautiful , complex , aching Africa." Perfect, Rooster - just perfect :) x

Anonymous said...

rooster

you said u have worked with people who are mentally ill

why do people commit sucide in public a woman killed her self in our local park

and the dude from crowded house when he hung himself he also did it in public

thanks

Lisa said...

Rooster, I'm doing a story on abandoned babies as a universal occurrence after reading this in News24 this morning (http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/b23b16e8069c46fea5f3cbe065810538/17-03-2010-09-29/Baby_saved_from_rubbish_dump) Where can I start looking for statistics I can use? xx

Anonymous said...

more anti white hate

day earlier, four Afriforum members held a personal meeting with Malema his office to arrange their delegation the following day – but after Malema had angrily demanded that they drop the formal hate-speech charges against him, he also threatened to ‘have the same thing happen to you as did with the Inkatha Freedom Party in 1994 (when 31 IFP protestors were shot dead and 300 were injured).

On Friday, the small group of peaceful Afrikaner protestors were met by a double-wall of grim-faced black cops who refused them any access to the building.

In a meeting between Roets and Malema a day earlier -- the latter had made pre-conditions before he would meet the small group of Afrikaners – demanding that they withdraw their official charge of hate-speech in connection with his constant public repetitions of the hate-speech chant “Kill the Boer’. The Afrikaners however refused to withdraw their formal charge with the SA Human Rights Commission. Malema then refused them access to Luthuli house and threatened Roets: “If you protest at Luthuli House tomorrow, the same thing which happened to the Inkatha Freedom Party (in 1994 at the building then named Shell House, when nineteen IFP-members were murdered by ANC-security guards) will also happen to you, Roets said he an d three other Afriforum members were told by Malema.

When Roets asked Malema exactly ‘what he meant by that statement’, the ANC youth league leader – who is widely viewed as the future president of South Africa – told the Afriforum members ‘to come and see what will happen to you’… In reaction to this violence-threat AfriForum leaders decided to proceed with the small protest with about 100 people at the nearby Mary Fitzgerald Square instead of all going to Luthuli House. Among the peaceful protestors waving “Stop Malema’ placards were relatives of murdered farmers, reports Beeld newspaper.(picture below)

Anonymous said...

March 20 2010 – Angry ANC-officials tore up the name-lists of several thousand murdered white farm-attack victims – then threw the documents in the gutter and trampled on them in front of their Luthule House headquarters in Johannesburg during a vicious confrontation with a small group of peaceful Afrikaner protestors. A day earlier, ANC youth league leader Julius Malema had also threatened to have the Afrikaner protestors shot down if they dared to show up…

The Rooster said...

lol ! Real objectiuve journalism there ! (sarcasm). Sure a lot of hyperbolic adjectives loaded in that piece of sensationalistic drivel. Definately written by a muppet racist with a heavily loaded agenda.

Anonymous said...

no i think not u cant keep blaming actual news as rasicm

and says its just rascim i wish that were the case but malema is actually calling for the blood of white folk

thats rascim

The Rooster said...

no i think not u cant keep blaming actual news as rasicm

and says its just rascim i wish that were the case but malema is actually calling for the blood of white folk

thats rascim

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Honestly who really cares what julius Malema says ?

The Rooster said...

Rooster, I'm doing a story on abandoned babies as a universal occurrence after reading this in News24 this morning (http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/b23b16e8069c46fea5f3cbe065810538/17-03-2010-09-29/Baby_saved_from_rubbish_dump) Where can I start looking for statistics I can use? xx

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Not really my strong point. Sorry about that. You're guess is as good as mine.