A primer for South African pessimists: how to cope with the current energy crisis

Posted on January 20th, 2008 by Richard Catto 5,885 views

Reading a number of blogs, I’ve discerned a common theme – rampant pessimism and predictions of certain doom for all of us, as a direct result of the current energy crisis.

I find it amazing how some South Africans are so eager and quick to paint South Africa in the darkest possible shades of black, given any setback. It’s as if the problems which afflict us are unique and discernible nowhere else in the world. For every problem that arises in SA, the knee-jerk answer is that these things do not and could not possibly occur elsewhere, ever. The implied theme is that a BLACK government, any BLACK government, is incompetent and incapable of responsibly governing any country.

Fact is, California experienced an electricity crisis which lasted from June 2000 through November 2003. This crisis was precipitated by market manipulation by the State of California. They imposed price controls which led to a situation where utility companies had to pay more for electricity than they could sell it for, and so production (of electricity) fell, companies went bankrupt and consumers experienced rolling black-outs.

I’d like to emphasize that this happened in a FIRST WORLD country. Furthermore, the State of California has the largest economy of all the states in the US. So it really is disingenuous to continually conclude that mismanagement, flawed delivery and total screw ups are the sole purview of Third World countries. Corruption happens everywhere, every day.

I’m very confident that any and all mishaps that occur in South Africa will be met with the same predictable response – black governments are useless!

If a bridge were to collapse, for instance, I’m certain that a million or more unhappy South Africans would make odious comparisons between our country and first world countries. I’m waiting for that to occur, and while I wait, I’m keeping this bit of ammo in reserve:

Design flaw cited in U.S. bridge collapse

Not that I’m expecting the imminent collapse of any bridges, but you never know. What I’m saying here is that people all over the world make mistakes, act irresponsibly, make incorrect predictions about the pace of growth of an economy and otherwise manage to fuck things up in all the same ways that we do.

In a way, it is actually a compliment that we are experiencing this electricity crisis because it came about due to our economy’s unexpected high growth rate – much higher than expectations. That is a good thing, per se. The only thing that makes it bad, is that we have temporarily run out of power to keep it all aglow and working.

So, although, the power crisis is apparently set to grow worse in the immediate short term, it doesn’t mean that things will remain that way.

The question you gotta ask yourself, is "Do you want to be part of the problem or part of the solution?"

Here’s the Problem:

And here’s an example of a solution (there are more):

What do I think is going to happen?

I think that South African businesses will find creative solutions to solve their energy problems. I believe that Eskom and the South African government will take effective measures to limit the damage to our economy.

The IOL article (linked above) lists several measures that Eskom is taking to resolve this problem, among them a subsidy program to assist homeowners to install solar heat. Eskom is actually prepared to pay part of your costs to install solar panels, if you wish to do so now. That’s something you will enjoy benefits from long after the energy crisis is over.

So, please my fellow South Africans, it’s not all doom and gloom.

The real question you should be asking yourself (if this applies to you) is why are you so prepared to believe the worst every time something goes wrong?

Why do you really lack confidence in South Africa?

Is it a black thing?

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270 Responses to “A primer for South African pessimists: how to cope with the current energy crisis”

junior Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 08:40
I am trying hard to find a positive in all this. My problem is that the power supplier predicted the scenario we are now experiencing 10 years ago. The mismanagement does not appear to be on their side, it is the powers that be that chose to ignore the warnings.

Having said this, we all will have to accept the fact that there is a problem and hope that all concerned will find a speedy solution. A good start would be to recall the minister of Public Enterprises from his holiday.
Richard Catto Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 09:24
Why recall him? It’s not as if he has answers in his bag, you know.
Ivo Vegter Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 13:01
I must correct you on a few points, since you cite my post at the top of your list.

I never said, or implied, that this has anything to do with the government being black. In fact, I explicitly said it’s NOT because blacks can’t run a country, but it’s because assorted socialists, communists, unionists and Keynesian statists can’t run a country.

I also noted that the electricity crisis is only the latest in a series of events that show such leftist thinking at work. I’ve covered telecommunications ever since the ANC came to power, and it makes an even better case study for the failures of state control and state planning.

Your example that it happens elsewhere shows that it did so for exactly the same reasons: flawed leftist thinking, state intervention in markets, over-reliance on government service delivery, and bungled deregulation. So they support my point, in fact.

I should also point out, as I did in my response to you on my own blog, that I posted about Toshiba’s small nuclear reactor before Christmas last year.

You’re right that Alec Erwin has no answers, however. And that’s not because he’s black, but because he’s a statist and socialist. And that’s the answer to your question, “Why do you really lack confidence in South Africa? Is it a black thing?” No, it’s not a black thing. It’s an economic policy thing. It’s a socialism thing. If you’d read my post without wearing the blinkers of preconceived ideas about race and pessimism, you might have spotted this. It’s there, in black and white.
SheBee Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 13:36
As always a controversial post well worth the read.

I want to be part of the solution, not the problem.
Guy McLaren Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 15:37
Thats nice, Eskom will pay a portion of something that most South Africans can not afford.

In fact it is estimated that 17% of home owners will lose their homes in the next 12 months due to interest rate hikes, and you and Eskom want us to get yet more credit?

Richard, Theres looking at stuff with blinkers and reality. Eskom are destroying the country and that is to do with bad management despite the race of the individuals involved.

It is a crisis, and needs resolving. Mbeki and his team of leftists has fucked up. Its time we had people with half a brain in charge, and I don’t give a shit what colour they are, as long as they do the fucking job.
Obaht Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 15:47
“Fact is, California experienced an electricity crisis which lasted from June 2000 through November 2003. This crisis was precipitated by market manipulation by the State of California. They imposed price controls which led to a situation where utility companies had to pay more for electricity than they could sell it for, and so production (of electricity) fell, companies went bankrupt and consumers experienced rolling black-outs.

Id like to emphasize that this happened in a FIRST WORLD country. Furthermore, the State of California has the largest economy of all the states in the US. So it really is disingenuous to continually conclude that mismanagement, flawed delivery and total screw ups are the sole purview of Third World countries. Corruption happens everywhere, every day.”

You are misinformed. Actually, the energy crisis was caused in large part by Enron and not because there were not enough generating stations. There were even documented occasions where Enron energy traders called into the power generating stations in California to “pretend” that they had to shut down for overhauling. The traders did this to create spikes in energy prices so that they could make even more money.

In SA we do not have enough generators. In the US they have plenty.
Richard Catto Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 16:37
Guy, if people who have the bux install solar heating, it would reduce the demand on the national grid.

That’s the problem that has to be solved – lessen demand.

If demand can be lessened enough there will be sufficient electricity to power those who can’t afford to install solar heat.

For example, the mini-nuclear reactor solution costs in the region of R21 million. Obviously, the people who would install such a solution is heavy industry, or iow, people who can afford it.

Do you get it now?
Richard Catto Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 16:44
Obaht, go read the wikipedia article.

The details of which company did what wrong (in CA) are irrelevant.

What is relevant is that CA State authorities fucked up in the first place by creating the situation that Enron then exploited.

The point in my article, and read it again if you need to, is not that the SA government has fucked up (that is undisputed), but that I am optimistic that the situation can be rectified.

This goes directly against what the purveyors of doom and gloom are saying, which is that things are terminally fucked.
Bongi Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 21:01
i suppose you also think that thabo mbeki is fit to govern along with mister roberts? is zuma a rasist because he differs with this sentiment?

not black government, but incompetent government. mbeki shows his prowess again.
SheBee Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 21:14
Hi Bongi,

Just to clarify – who are you directing your comment at?
Bongi Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 21:35
at the author of the post.
to simply equate complaints with racism against a black government is sad. i would imagine that in a country that is democratic it should be our right or even obligation to express objections when needed. i’ll be ingenious as he suggests but i will not stick my head in the sand like the whole mbeki crowd (author included) and pretend there is no power crisis and that they didn’t mess up by listening to the people warning them.
haven’t we seen from the anc election that that sort of ostrich mentality that the mighty mbeki perfected is no longer accepted?
i almost expect the author to go ahead and explain that the aids denialism was also right and to disagree with that is also racist. and thoughts on manto? or would that be both racist and sexist?
Richard Catto Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 22:31
Okay, Bongi, I think you need to realise that I am not a Mbeki supporter. I am definitely not apologising for the current stuff up.

But what I am saying is that the people who are writing off SA as a lost cause are being extremely pessimistic.

The point of my post is to express my opinion that as bad as the mess is, I have faith that we will find solutions to it. I am also hopeful that new government leadership will reverse the setbacks and get us back on track again.
Difficult being optimistic… Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 05:10
[...] I read an article on load shedding over at Cape Town News. The author was discussing the fact that many local blogs are pessimistic over the problem, they [...]
Obaht Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 06:01
catto,

Allow me to rephrase. South Africa is not a first world country and we can all agree on that. The US is a first world country although some may disagree on that. But the point is that the US has plenty of electricity except for the occasional power failure and brownout. You cannot compare a third world country like SA to the US.

In California we see that: “These blackouts occurred mainly as a result of manipulation by traders and marketers. By withholding energy and shutting down generators, frenzy appeared in the market and energy prices climbed higher on the West Coast. Enron traders were revealed as intentionally encouraging the removal of power from the market during California’s energy crisis by encouraging suppliers to shut down plants to perform unnecessary maintenance, as documented in recordings made at the time.[4] These acts contributed to the need for rolling blackouts, which adversely affected many businesses dependent upon a reliable supply of electricity, and inconvenienced a large number of retail consumers.”

California.27s_deregulation_and_subsequent_energy_crisis

Greedy energy traders at Enron caused the problem in California, not corrupt government officials. In South Africa we can only hope that something like that could take place where we have so much power that we can manipulate it to our own ends.

Again, SA’s power grid is decaying rapidy before our very eyes due to gross incompetence and not due to the fact that a person is black or white.
Joon Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 08:46
During 2001, Brazil also faced a major power crisis – a rationing system was put in place to reduce the use of energy with 20 percent. A household were allowed a 500 kilowatt ration per week and if not adhering to these regulations, a hefty fine or a six day without power were the citizens prospects.

It is a harsh solution to build up reserves but we need to save power – how many people do not use their elictricity sparingly and by going greener a huge reduction in the consumption of energy is inevitable.

We should stop moaning and start saving. The only other thing I can add is that the “powers” that be should enforce load shedding as a preventitive measure rather than curing. If load shedding is done every day for say 1 or 2 hours at exactly the same time for the same groups, a certain routine can be worked out. This will make lives easier, traffic can be predicted and shops and small businesses can change their hours.

The element of surprise is surprisingly enough one of the major problems.
Grant Walliser Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 09:33
The fact that the energy crisis in California lasted only 3 years seems to indicate that it had less to do with generation capacity and more to do with price tampering. Generation capacity takes way longer than 3 years to beef up.

In addition, I find it strange that you feel the need to protect those who have made the mess simply because you perceive that the response is racist. It is a fairly forgiving but condecsending and paternalistic standpoint. Would you be so understanding if the decision makers had all been white? I hope so but I doubt it.

We have dropped the ball here and even though I agree that plans will be made, people need to let those in charge know that we are not pleased. Colour has no bearing. Regardless of what we do, it is going to be a tougher time for SA simply because of bad planning. Heads should roll – whatever their colour.
6000 Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 09:38
I think I said this last week:

http://6000.co.za/2008/01/18/south-africas-electricity-crisis/

Fed up with the moaning.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 09:57
rICHARD,YOU HAVE MY VOTE HERE SINCE I DISCERN YOUR POINT AND ITS HUNDRED PERCENT OVERBOARD.

LET FACELESS RAMBLERS LIKE OBAHT GO-ON AND RAMBLE SINCE WOITHOUT THEM SOUTH AFRICA WOULD BE REALLY BORING!!!

wHAT RICHARD IS ON ABOUT HERE ITS THAT THESE PALE-AND-BALD ROOINEKKE SITS ON THEIR ARSES LIKE OLD FARTS WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO GO WRONG THEN THEY RUN TO FIFA TO DEMAND THE GAMES BE TAKEN SOMEWHERE CITING THAT PROBLEM AS THE REASON.

mAN,I TELL YA,THEY BLOODY RUN LIKE A HARE PURSUED BY HOUNDS.THAT`S RICHARDS ASSERTION AND TO ME ITS LOUD AND CLEAR-RICHARD.NO BETTER TRUTH THAN THAT,MAN,AMEN!!!
Bongi Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 14:01
what you are saying is that people who criticize see it as a black thing. i believe criticism is an important part of democracy. i for one will continue to criticize as it behoves me to do in a true democracy.
Richard Catto Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 14:14
Obaht, of course I can compare SA with the US. I can compare anything with anything, and you are free to object as much as you like.

I feel that it really does not matter WHY CA experienced its electricity crisis. They could have all the power in the Universe, but if its not available to consumers, it’s the same as if they had none.

Their energy crisis persisted for close on 3.5 years. How long has SA had an elec crisis? About two months so far.

You claim that SA’s national power grid is rapidly decaying before our eyes. Do you have a cite for that?
Richard Catto Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 14:45
Bongi, sure I appreciate your right to criticise and I am also critical along with you.

I want to differentiate, though, between being critical and choosing to write off an entire country as being substandard and no longer worth staying in or investing in.

I look at events in the US and the UK where those countries were both subject to terrorist attacks. Generally, their populations rallied in patriotism. They didn’t announce that their own countries were for shit and said that they were leaving.

The only example of that that I can think of was of a few left-wing American celebs who announced that if George W. Bush won the 2004 election, they’d move to France. Well he won, and they stayed anyway.

Maybe it’s a third world phenomenon that when things go wrong, the rats flee? I’m unsure. Perhaps you have some thoughts on that?
Coco Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 14:48
Erm… SA has had power problems for longer than that, I am sure. There has been constant power outages during winter months for as long as I can remember.

Point well made: Rather be part of the solution than the problem. I am reminded of the following statement: Evil thrives when good people do nothing.
Andre Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 15:36
This whole opinion should be read together with the chapter on South Africa and how the powersharing deal was brockered during the transitional phase in Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. Riveting stuff.
Richard Catto Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 16:18
The Western Cape had a much more serious power shortage problem in early 2006 for a few months because both of Koeberg’s Unit One and Two power generating units went offline.

Unit One went offline in Dec 2005 for a few months and Unit Two went offline for a day or two in Nov 2006.

Both of those caused loss of power in the Western Cape. Those problems were addressed. I believe that the current problem will also be addressed rapidly.
Richard Catto Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 17:35
Grant, I’m not protecting anyone. I’m not apologising for anyone.

Clearly you have not read what I have written.

My article is protesting people being pessimistic about SOUTH AFRICA.

The people who fucked this up ought to go. So we are in agreement there.
Obakeng, The Chief Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 21:44
Allow my 2 cents worth:

Richard, I am black, and to be honest, i am ashamed at some of my African leaders. As you know, most African governments are being run by blacks, and the leaders, what do they have to show for it: GREED, CORRUPTION, LACK OF DELIVERY OF ELECTORAL PROMISES AND “WILL DO ANYTHING TO CLING TO POWER” Mentality.

SA apparantely, is just the same. The ANC government looked out for number 1, themselves. Look, i am proud of my country and my continent, despite its more downs than ups. But our leaders need to be called to account.

And people are starting to realise that, they have put material, wealth seeking people into power. I don’t know, maybe some bloggers’ perogative is to bring SA down, to paint all black people as unintelligent and lacking, that however is not my style.

I, as a blogger, am highlighting and reminding the ANC, that they are not delivering what they promised us they’ll do. And i 100% certain, that there are people in there who can govern and make this country prosper!!!

In order for us to find solutions, wouldn’t you agree that we have to know the root of the problem first??? For our files???

Yes, i find it absolutely unacceptable that we should be too pessimistic about our country. But we also have to be realistic as well.

And like you say, power cuts saga is not doom and gloom, it is ridiculous for people to even think this. I grew up with candles for a good 12 years of my life!
wayne Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 22:39
Richard, if you have to generalise in the manner you do, use a lazy strawman argument against me, mix in manipulation techniques of villying the victims, consistency traps in your reasoning to snare others and covert aggressive accusations of racism in order to try delegitimise views not your liking in order to promote your own, then don’t expect me or others to engage you directly or ultimately buy into your or a shared vision.
Obaht Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 23:21
Obakeng,

Would you like to run for president?

You have my vote.
SheBee Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 23:27
Hear, hear! I vote for the Chief too!
Richard Catto Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 23:57
Yes, Obi, I know you’re black.

Thanks for your comments here.
Richard Catto Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 00:01
Wayne, you’re waffling and using a lot of big intellectual words. I’m not interested in your pseudo-intellectualism.

Simply put, I disagree with the cynicism and pessimism you expressed in your article. I think you’re wrong.

Feel free to leave SA if you don’t feel you have a future here.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 08:32
OBACT,DO YOU HAVE LINKS AND IS IT YOUR LINKS THAT CAUSED THIS MISERY TO SABOTAGE THIS GOVERNMENT?

ZUMA MUST RID HIS GOVERNMENT OF ALL WHITES OR MUST FORCE THOSE WHO ARE IN IT TO UNDERTAKE LIE DETECTOR TESTS SINCE I BELIEVE THE FREEMASON HAS INFILTRATED IT WITH ITS OPERATIVES WITH THE STRICT INSTRUCTIONS TO DESTABILISE AND SABOTAGE IT.

YES,THE RDP HOUSING PROBLEMS ITS SABOTAGE.THE FREEMASONS GIVE THE CONTRACT TO THEIR BUDDIES WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS THAT THEY MUST DO A BAD JOB SO THAT BLACKS MUST NOT VOTE FOR THE ANC OR ANY BLACK PARTY.

THE SAME WITH THOSE UNEXPLAINED COUNTLESS TRAIN ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED IN THE MID 90`S.RIGHTWINGERS HOPED THAT THEY WERE GONNA RESULT IN BLACKS VOTING FOR THE DA AFTER LOSING CONFIDENCEV IN BLACK RULERS.
Obaht Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 14:52
singiswa,

You are a paranoid delusional. Keep thinking your foolishness ideas up and you will go crazy in the end believing that there is a white enemy agent saboteur behind every bush and tree wainting to do damage to the SA economy at every opportunity.

Get a grip dude! (Or at least take your medication as instructed.)
Obaht Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 17:00
Darkest Africa!

The dominoes are falling as the power gets cut to our northern neighbours:
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=689428

singiswa, I suppose that the freemasons have cut the power to mugabe because they have a plot to destabilize Africa even further. mugabe must be screaming down the phone lines at his ally mbeki asking for the the power to be turned back on so that his private jet can be refuelled faster for his shopping trips overseas. You know how long it takes to pump gas by hand into a jet?

Good for eskom cutting the power to the north. We need it here!
Obaht Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 17:26
catto,

The title to this thread is interesting. How do pessimists cope with the power outages?

Well here is one way they cope:

“Six Metrorail motor coaches and 18 trailer coaches were destroyed on Friday after angry commuters torched trains at four stations when they were kept waiting for two hours during a power failure.”
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=688978

I suppose singiswa will say that the freemasons put the commuters up to the task and behind the freemasons there are all manner of nefarious white folk pulling the strings of the arsonists.
Richard Catto Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 17:37
That story of the trains has already been commented on by me over here.
Obaht Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 18:08
You said: “Take Somali as an example. Or Peru. Or Columbia. Those countries descended all the way down to anarchy and guerrilla warfare because the government was so ineffective. Governments role is to placate the masses or be burned.”

You’re not becoming a pessimist now are you?
Richard Catto Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 18:18
No. I don’t think South Africa will go down like those countries did.

The ANC Polokwane Conference sent a clear message to government that they will be voted out if they fail to deliver.

Mbeki has failed SA in so many irrational ways. He’s a kook. He lost his grip on reality when he chose to blunder down the HIV conspiracy blind alley.

His irrational handling of Manto and her deputy just frustrated the nation.

Mbeki is a frustrating arsehole because he does not make sane rational decisions. He is impossible to fathom or trust with our future.

People are fed up. So ANC delegates voted him out. Ordinary South Africans burn trains.

It’s a clear message people are sending, that they’re frustrated and tired of being fucked around by incompetent bastards.

They’re telling the government to get their shit together or we are gonna burn your house down.

I support that. They must be made to feel the pain of the ordinary person. If they cannot govern and they refuse to step aside, then they must be overthrown.

In that respect, I believe in Revolution to cure social problems created by incompetent leaders.
SheBee Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 18:23
richard, you never fail to entertain…

Burning down trains is barbaric.

Simple, pimple.

BARBARIC, I SAY!
Richard Catto Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 18:28
Ja, well I’m not called Conan because I enjoy cuddling fuzzy bunnies.
Debbie Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 04:11
It just infuriates me knowing that whilst we sit in the dark, other countries are benefiting from power that should be ours.
Richard Catto Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 04:20
Okay, well I guess I’ve been lucky so far, because I’ve only experienced one day of being load shed for 2 hours, and that was last week.

Eskom announced recently that they’re no longer supplying anyone outside of South Africa.

This is causing problems for Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia, all of whom have experienced power outages since Eskom cut power to them.
Debbie Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 08:26
Richard, on which news channel did you get your information, unless I missed something like a mind blowing announcement…which was not made clear on any of the radio stations I listen to…
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 08:38
Well,SheBee-I`m supposed bashing people to implement and enforced an ideology as your government did was worse barbaric than torching trains!Have you ever raised your voice at school,church,varsity,social cklubs about that?i`m suopposed you were young and knew nothing about what was going on!
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 08:42
if it makes economic and political sense to South Africa to supply countries with electricity then why not?

if you have proof that presidents of countries abused it for their private consumption then report them to relevant authorities or otherwise do not make veiled unfounded accusations because our president also has a helicopter and abused it too for personal business.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 08:46
what..obaht?your president in siberia?wow!good for you,boy and i pray that you and him borrow mbeki`s jet and fly out of here much quicker than anticipated since cretins and demented morons belong in SIBERIAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
Obaht Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 15:39
Singiswa,

At this point in time you have zero credibility as far as I’m concerned. From now on I will not respond to your rank stupidity and useless and inane chatter.

Next thing you’ll be saying is that we are all being controlled by lizard people from the planet Zargon!

Transmission out.
Obaht Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 17:34
I have heard through a friend of mine with high level connections to Eskom that that the current Eskom problem is not because of electricity generating capacity problems.

The actual problem at Eskom has more to do with the loss of skilled people. I think they need about 900 engineers as of yesterday if you catch my drift?

Could it be that the problem has more to do with incompetence than with the increase of usage over the last 10 years?
Guy McLaren Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 18:50
Visit Guy McLaren and buy a generator, No power problems any more, all gone.
Guy McLaren Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 18:54
Tim in 1994 our Sheebee was no more than 9 years old, Are you suggesting she should have been planting Bombs?
SheBee Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 19:06
I actually chose to ignore this comment thread.

I refuse to answer on the grounds that I may slap someone up side the head in my confusion and ignorance on this matter.

Be that as it may, I would like to officially retire myself from all things political and debate wise, when it comes to blogging.

I will stick to girly things such as sex, shoes & singing.

Kthxbi.
Richard Catto Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 19:20
Visit Guy McLaren and buy a generator

Are you actually spamming MY blog with your commercial shit, McLaren!?
Richard Catto Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 01:28
Who is blaming Apartheid, Wade? Do you have difficulty comprehending English?

Your pessimism is exactly part of the problem. Why don’t you just leave SA, if you feel it is all going to shit?

And another thing, why do you racists always want to “move on”?

What’s to get right? It’s never gonna be right in your eyes.

I think it’s time for you to just get the fuck out, because I’m tired of your bullshit.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 09:09
STUFF IT,AND BUST-OFF TO YOUR AMAZON OR SIBERIA-OBAHT,BEFORE I BLOW YOUR HEAD-OFF WITH MY MACHINE GUN!

TAKE YOUR OBTUSE AND BLINKERED PRESIDENT WITH YOU AND GO VOTE FOR HIM THERE NOT HERE,YOU PUKE!
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 09:16
i THINK RICHARD MUST REJECT ALLCOMMENTS HERE THAT DOES NOT OFFER A SOLUTION TO OUR ENERGY CRISIS AND ONLY INSIST THAT FROM NOW-ON COMMENTS MUST BE ABOUT A SOLUTION.

HERE IS MINE,RICHIE!SWITCH-OFF GEYSERS;STOP CHARGING CELLPHONES AND LEAVING COMPUTERS ON WHOLE NIGHT;REPLACE YOUR LITE BULBS WITH LOE-ENERGY ONES;CHANGE TO SOLAR GEYSER OR SOLAR-POWERED LIGHTS;BUY AN INSULATING GEYSER BLANKET SWITCHED TO A GAS STOVE.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 09:18
I will stick to girly things such as sex, shoes & singing.

hi shebee,are you gonna post some of those photos taken while you were suntanning at sandy bay or fitting some suspenders at a retaikler`s fiiting room.

thanks doll!waiting with abated breath.
Marko Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 11:33
Eish Tim you are so clever, we *never* would have thought of those things you suggest.

Let’s turn the whole of Robben Island into a fucking wind farm ok?
Marko Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 11:37
Yes, I’m sure you are waiting with *abated* breath. Funny chap.
Richard Catto Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 13:29
Wade, it is clear to everyone how deeply racist you are. You’re so damn in denial about it too.

Every time, I challenge whiteys about their racism, your hernia pops out and you start limping around my blog trying to convince us how it is not a colour thing, and failing miserably, because the first word out of your horrid little mouth is A P A R T H E I D which no-one must mention anymore, because you just want to move on.

Well as I said before, no-one is going anywhere. No-one is moving on, until little white punk asses like you get down on your knees and kiss black ass and beg for their forgiveness.

I’m staying in SA because I dig it here. Since you don’t, I think it’s time for you to fuck off and go whine and bitch to some limeys about all the troubles you had “back in Africa”.

Buh bye. Waaade.
Richard Catto Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 13:47
it will be a cold day in hell before I kiss anyones backside.

I’m taking that as an admission of your racism.

Why won’t you take responsibility for your role in Apartheid? Why do you want everyone to move on and forgive your white ass, whilst in the same breath you cry about black criminals targeting white people?

And to top it all off, you advocate sabotaging SA by calling for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to be held elsewhere.

So, tell us again how you’re not a racist. Tell us again how you are an SA patriot.

We’re all ears, Wade.
Richard Catto Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 14:07
So the SA government is MY government, not OUR government?

It sounds like you are already on the way out.

Look, if you have no confidence in SA, leave already, ‘k?

Read this article for my apology for my role in Apartheid.
Richard Catto Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 14:21
See, Wade, you really do lack the ability to comprehend meaning.

The SA government is your government whilst you stay here, whether or not you voted for it.

I don’t owe you shit. You want to leave, that’s your financial problem.
Coco Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 14:44
I reckon the only solution to South Africa’s problem is this and it is very simple. Everybody – whether you are black coloured indian white pink blue green yellow orange – pack up your bags and go re settle somewhere else in the world – no people = no problems!
Obaht Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 15:07
In a couple of weeks we are winging our way overseas to check it out.

The fact is we pay our taxes and we should get our services. Why should we be penalized and have to spend OUR money on buying expensive solar powered junk?

The ANC were warned to build power stations 10 years ago. They even apologized to us recently for this mistake and now we have to pay for it.

Our business is losing money hand over fist and we are sick of it and are not going to take it anymore! SHAME on you ANC for your recklessness and your corruption! You are pathetic!

SOme here are OK with turning off geysers, living with only one light in the house, and cranking a hand generator to get a couple of volts. Don’t be stupid! The real world does not live like that. Oh I forgot, we are really a third world country so I suppose it’s OK.

Stop supplying electricity to criminals like mugabe. Stop the 2010 world cup and let’s get back to business.
Obaht Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 15:37
Believe me we have not seen the worst yet! (Not to mention the disgusting Eskom gravytrain.)

Quote: “By last year Eskom was unable to fully supply itself with coal, and started to outsource, naturally enough, to “black economic empowerment” companies who only know rudimentary things about coal mining. Eskom’s coal stocks are now good only for days, rather than months.

Chaos is the order of the day. As generators have failed at Eskom, or been taken down for “maintenance”, so other generators have been over-worked by turbines spinning above nameplate capacity.”

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page84?oid=187078&sn=Detail

I shudder to think what will happen if Koeberg “goes down for maintenance”!

Perhaps singiswa can start an informal roadside store to sell hand cranked generators made of car tires and coathangers.
Obaht Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 15:48
How Eskom blew it:

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page662?oid=187937&sn=Detail

Special quote from consultants letter for simgiswa and catto to show that the whites are responsible as well. Racism is NOT a factor:

“We warned them that over the long term it would kill Eskom. We gave them five years. Well it took longer; 10 years. Now we the public are having to bear this cost because of a short-term view top management had.

“Let me tell you they were all white managers, so please do not blame the black management of Eskom. They were not part of that ridiculous decision. And of course the power station managers’ other part of their performance contract was AA appointments.”
Marko Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 16:01
Can you believe that 500 people were stranded on top of Table Mountain the other day due to a ‘load shed’?
Yes, before you shout at me Tim and Richard, the cable car system should have a backup generator for unforseen and accidental outages. It is definitely not a sustainable solution.
I don’t know how you think this ‘crisis’ is going to be resolved quickly Richard.
Remember that most of our power is already ‘dirty’ power, ie. it comes from coal mines. This is also definitely *not* sustainable.
Hell now we might even have a problem with wet coal: http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4219989
Don’t even talk to me about nuclear power, Eskom has already demonstrated their incompetence in that field at Koeberg.
I find it amazing that only now Mbeki is demanding explanations from Eskom. Maybe if he wasn’t so busy flitting around the globe he would have noticed the lights off at home.
Just two years ago he denied there even was a problem: http://business.iafrica.com/news/69047.htm

Yes Tim, we should all have solar heating for our water but this will take time before a significant difference in load is made.
In the meantime the demand for electricity will only increase anyway.

Hey Tim, have you done your bit, have you installed solar heating? Richard?
Richard Catto Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 00:47
have you fed any previously disadvantaged person?

See, Wade, this is what makes you a racist.

You’re so patronising. You think all blacks need to be fed by whiteys, instead of just being treated as equals.

You suffer from a problem that Colonials over a century ago had. You think you’re superior.
Richard Catto Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 00:54
Marko, we already know that Mbeki screwed up. Hence him being voted out.

Why don’t you just wait and see how the power problem is going to be solved.

I believe that answers are going to be found.

I, personally, am not installing solar heat for a number of reasons, chief of which is that I cannot afford to.
Daniel Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 11:36
TRANSPARENCY IN THE DARK

The recent power outages have managed to expose the inability of the ANC to govern this country. Up to now the ANC has simply side-stepped or refused to answer to issues such as AIDS,death of babies in hospitals, poverty, corruption,non-delivery etc, etc, etc, but now there is simply no way to hide their ineffiency. And the best yet: ALL THOSE ANC FATCATS ARE ALSO EXPERIENCING THE SAME DISCOMFORT AND FRUSTRATION AS THE REST OF THE CITIZENS. Finally, in some weird way, the truth has been brought to light!!!! Hopefully all those who had voted for this liberation movement during the previous elections will now realise that it takes more than a few ex-military men to run a country IN A RESPONSIBLE WAY! VIVA ESKOM
Richard Catto Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 11:51
Wade, you’re not a Mad Genius, you’re just Mad.

The United States has Freedom of Speech where even Nazis and other race haters are allowed to spew their crap without fear of arrest.

Are you aware that prior to the United States becoming involved in WWII, actual real genuine Nazis from Germany were giving speeches in New York?

You’re so incapable of comprehending what I write that you think I’m a racist. I put it down to a low education on your part.
Richard Catto Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 12:07
Correct, Daniel, the present ANC government has failed South Africa in many ways.

Mbeki has mismanaged South Africa.

If it was in my personal power to do so, I would fire Manto and the South African public would never see her face again spouting the biggest load of bull ever.

When Mbeki fired Madlala-Routledge (then deputy Minister of Health), he revealed himself to be a worthless president, incapable of discerning quality from garbage.
Obaht Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 14:45
So now the ANC has decided to close the gold mines for a while because of the power crisis.

How did we get to this?
Richard Catto Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 15:04
Obaht, is this the article you are referring to?

Here is another one worth reading.
Coco Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 15:18
Is this the start of the crumbling of our economy?

Gold mines will lose millions due to lack of production.

(no, I am not being pessimistic. Just a question)
Obaht Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 15:45
Yes,

We are in a lot of trouble now. Watch inflation skyrocket and interest rates go up over the next couple of years.

I don’t think they can jury rig this problem anymore.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 17:00
Oh,Richard,you seem to be held against the wall by these pukes who are still induced by verwoerdianism and won`t move and would of course emigrate than accepting the black man as an equal.

I`m lisdtening to all this kindergarten idiotic bullshit they`re uttering and i`m bowled-over by their narrow-mindedness and bigotry.

THEY ARE TELLING YOU ABOUT THE US BUT THEY ARE NOT WANTED THERE BECAUSE OF THEIR BIGOTRIES AND SUPREMACISM THAT`S WHY THEY ARE OPTING FOR AN INDIAN ISLAND LIKE DUBAI.

NOW-LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT AND GODAMIT I AINT NOT REPEATING THE MADAFAKA NO MORE!

I DON`T WANT MATERIALISTIC STUFF FROM ANYONE HOWEVER WHITES ARE OBLIGED BY THE TRC ACT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE LEGISLATION OF THEIR HERETIC AND VAMPIRISH FORMER GOVERNMENT PREVENTING BLACKS FROM EARNING MIDDLE-TO-HIGH INCOMES AND MUST MAKE MONETARY COMPENSATION AS AMY BIEHL`S PARENTS DID BY EDUCATING THE KILLERS OF HER DAUGHTER.

PRESSURE WILL BE PUT TO BEAR ON ZUMA TO FORCE THEM TO SET-UP RECONCILIATION AND HEALING PROGRAMMES COUNTRY-WIDE BEFORE THEY CAN GET ANY GOVERNMENT FAVOURS AND OF COURSE IF THEY ARE INCALCITRANT AND REBELLIOUS THE DOOR TO DUBAI IS WIDE OPEN.

WE WILL SEND ;LETTERS TO DUBAI PAPERS TELLING THE DUBAIS WHO THOSE PALE-AND-BALD NEW ARRIVALS ARE.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 17:06
you lie-obaht!mbeki was assured by the captains of the industry that they were gonna build more power stations and they failed to honour that promise because a freemason lodge that is involved in sabotaging this government advised them not to so that blacks must loose confidents to this black government and vote for a white party.

you think we are stupid,my man?
Marko Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 20:04
HAHAHA, yes that’s right, blame freemasons for government’s fuckup. Spoken like a true ANC politician Tim, not just pass the buck but completely toss it.
That’s the funniest shit I’ve heard all week.

> you think we are stupid,my man?

You make yourself look very stupid with comments like your last, the one about the dog biting your dick and the one about eating rat poison, my man.
Richard Catto Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 21:08
Even the Jews have forgiven the Nazis.

ZOMG!

Your stupidity is giving me a migraine.
Marko Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 21:16
Ya fok Wade, what the hell dude…
TimSiniswa Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 09:32
balsdon!dekock submitted that him and his pale colleagues at the security branch used to rape,torture,pilfer,loot and murder and i ask are these the rapists you hate,madafaka?
Richard Catto Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 10:00
Tim, Balsdon is irrational. He expects white racist bastards to be forgiven, and we must all move on.

But when it comes to blacks lashing out at whites in retaliation, then he says that this country is going to hell and he wants 2010 stopped and reckons its time for whiteys to leave. And he wants me to pay for him to leave.

I’m tired of hypocritial white attitudes like his.
TimSiniswa Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 10:15
HE IS SUFFERING FROM SOME KIND OF INSANITY SYNDROME DUE TO HIS AGE AND I THINK ITS TIME HE IS SHOWN THE DOOR SINCE HE HAS NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE BUT INCITE RACIAL HATRED.
Marko Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 12:00
Tim, I’ve not seen you contribute anything but racist bullshit either. Go wash your own dirty feet.

de Kock was an assassin. A soldier, hired killer if you like. Quite possibly psychotic himself, the guy will die in prison for his crimes (which did *not* include rape you ‘madafaking’ liar) while his bosses got away with amnesty.

I believe it is about mutual respect, no matter who one is dealing with. When I go and see my black clients it is no different than going to coloured, white or indian clients. We work together and then we go to the pub and have a few beers while talking kak.
On weekends we jol together. We have mutual interests and aspirations. I can even say that we are friends.
If I had to go to any of my clients with a butt-licking attitude I will definitely have lost their respect, friendship (and business) forever.

This country does not need ass-kissers. I don’t see it helping race relations and the greater development of our country.

Rather go to http://www.myggsa.co.za and help some worthy cause.
eishkom Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 17:00
Hi

A load of hogwash, stop blaming apartheid and rather focus on the problem.Support somebody that can offer solutions and stop this bickering like old ladies .It does not become intelligent people to degrade each other like this.
Richard Catto Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 18:26
Eishkom, actually the common people (that’s us) have the luxury of being able to just sit and bicker amongst ourselves whilst we wait for those who are able to affect change to fix things.
Richard Catto Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 19:38
Baldson, I’m not holding shit up. I’m a just blogger shooting the breeze online.

I don’t care who Nelson Mandela chooses to forgive. Nor do I agree with the TRC handing out amnesties to criminals.

Nothing that I do hinders anyone from finding solutions to South Africa’s current power crisis.

But perhaps you’d like to explain your thesis further? I’m all ears.
Marko Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 23:57
Question, Richard: Why do you complain about other bloggers censoring your comments when you have done the same?
Btw, Tim lambasted Obaht just recently for addressing him by his last name, why is this different for Wade?
Richard Catto Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 03:03
Because my comment had greater merit than Wade’s.
David Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 05:23
So every time someone says something negative, it means they’re a racist? Get real. You must be the one with race-coloured glasses if that’s all you can see. Negative comments are well-deserved under the circumstances, just like they also were in California. And pretending that the complainers cause these problems with that last comment? Uh, whatever.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 08:48
Marko,Richard does not mingle with blacks only on a work schedule but is more involved with blacks and he did not think that was enough but still went-out and confessed,apologised and sought forgiveness and in your view he acted foolishly to go that whole hog!

It was in the past when we wanted you to defy apartheid iniquitous and unjust laws by doing what you arte doing now and now things are different since you must now heal wounds that were inflicted by apartheid and individual whites.

how can you be beaten by a foreigner like the Biels who quietly implemented their reconciliation and healing projects from their own pockets with a big smile on their faces and then retreated to watch those wounds being healed as blacks benefit from that project.

You see,Wade is reliving wounds by {my hatred for rapists, murderers, hijackers, people with aids who rape babies in order to cleanse themselves is not a black thing, promise. If a white person}making these uterances since this is how i was made to look under apartheid hence the term”swaart gevaar”and he should now be apologising for those terms and letting everyone knows that it was apartheid propaganda.

Leave blacks alone and get together with a group of friends “whites”and come-up with your own programme of reconciling that will impact black environments.

to shout that i {marko}will never wash your feet etc is reactionary in itself since i was only showing you an example of what you can do to demonstrate your commitment to the process of “reconciliation and healing”.Yes,it is on record that whites played a major role in the wars that sprang-up in the continent with the intention of destabilising and sabotaging and that frremasons do infiltrate and intervene in affdairs of countries so i have a stromg reason to question if the freemasons or colonialists or missionaries did not play any role in this outtage thing.and you will have to tell me here as to their agreeing to build more power stations and then renege was that not an attempt to sabotage mbeki`s administration….!
Richard Catto Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 09:00
So every time someone says something negative, it means theyre a racist?

Nope. Asked and answered.
Richard Catto Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 11:09
Wade, your comments are being deleted because they’re just ridiculously stupid and lead to no useful further discussion.

If you want to participate in this blog, you’ll have to change your tune.

Until that Great Day dawns, I’ll be deleting any and all comments by you that I deem to be offensive / useless / stupid / just plain dumb.
Obaht Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 15:40
singiswa,

You said: “…freemasons do infiltrate and intervene in affairs of countries so i have a stromg reason to question if the freemasons or colonialists or missionaries did not play any role in this outtage thing.and you will have to tell me here as to their agreeing to build more power stations and then renege was that not an attempt to sabotage mbeki`s administration.!”

Dude, you are reading too many conspiracy websites. Why can’t you accept the fact that the ANC is incompetent.

Allow me to repeat, for those ill-informed people like yourself, that 10 years ago they were warned to build more power stations. They did not. Period.

The freemasons, the knights-templar, the secret seven, the famous five, or the global cabal of little green martians did not renege or sabotage the building of power stations.

The ANC reneged and sabotaged themselves.

Don’t be stupid!
Marko Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 16:06
Tim, once again your comment defies logic.
Where did I ever say Richard acted foolishly? Stop lying ok?
You talk as though you know Richard personally, do you?
So by Richard apologising on a blog, that to you is ‘the whole hog’? That simple? Wow.

I’m not even going to comment on your crap about the Biehl family.
At the very least show some respect and spell their last name correctly, seeing how much you bleat about others using your last name.

> “Leave blacks alone…”
Oh dear, did I touch a nerve by telling you I have black friends and socialise with them?
Shame, do you really hate whites that much that you can’t stand us being friends?

Of course I am being reactionary to your ‘wash my feet’ crap, what do you expect?
Stop blaming the current generation of white people and sitting around waiting for somebody to kiss your ass.
We are just trying to get on with our shit while dealing with crap like violence in our suburbs, load shedding etc.,
just like every other sane South African.

You are the one that said that no comments should be allowed here unless they are offering a solution to the problem but yet again you steer the topic towards your stupid conspiracy bullshit.

Let me help you here. Eskom is a state-owned company. It belongs to the people and is run by government. As such it falls under the portfolio of our esteemed Minister of Minerals and Energy. It is therefore his responsibilty ok? It is the president’s responsibility to make sure that this guy is doing his job.
They fucked up, plain and simple – no matter how much you carp on about freemasons or mafia etc. etc.

So, all of us (except of course Tim, who seems to be on rat poison) agree that government dropped the ball on this one. What happened to accountability?

Just for you Tim, here’s my suggestion for the day: Insulate the pipes coming from your geyser, much energy is lost due to dissipation of heat between the geyser and the tap.’Thermaflex’ pipe insulation can be had from any builder’s supply store, or ask your plumber.
Marko Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 16:13
LOL Obaht “the secret seven, the famous five”, thanks for that, had a good laugh
Obaht Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 16:38
catto,

When are you going to put your foot down and stop singiswa from from making his dumb-ass freemason comments.

How long will you continue to be silent on his paranoid and moronic comments? Are you afraid to set him straight because it may mean that you would no longer be “washing his smelly feet”?
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 09:03
sOMETIMES i GATHER I`M EXCHANGING WITH DEMENTED CARICATURES HERE AND THAT`S WHY I`M NOT RESPONDING TO YOUR CONTRIBUTIO ACCURATELY AND APPROPRIATELY BECAUSE I DON`T WANT TO SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY{MARKO,OBAHT,DAVID,BALSDON ETC}.

TEN YEARS AGO THE DELEGATION THAT WAS PRESENT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WAS ALLEGEDLY INFORMED ABOUT FUTURE ELECTRICITY PROBLEMS WAS BIG BUSINESS AND MBEKI PROPOSITION THEM TO BUILD MORE POWER STATIONS AND THEY ACCEPTED THE PROPOSITION BUT LATER DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS NOT GOOD FOR PROFITS SINCE ELECTRICITY WAS THEN CHEAP AND THEY NEVER WENT BACK TO MBEKI AND TOLD HIM THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR MINDS AND SO HE HAS BEEN OF THE VIEW THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING UP THEIR SLEEVES TO INTERVENE WHEN TIMES LIKE THESE ARISES AND THAT`S WHY HE IS LOOKING AT WAYS OF PUNISHING BIG BUSINESS AS A WAY OF RETALIATION FOR THEIR FUCK-UP WHICH IS CLEARLY FREEMASON-STYLE SABOTAGE-ARSEHOLES,NINCOMPOOPS AND POEPHOLS!!!

HEY,MARKO,OBAHT,BALSDON,DAVID YOU ARE NOT IN SOUTH AFRICA BUT IN SIBERRRRIIIIAAAA!YOU LOOK LIKE SIIBEERRRIIIAAANNNNSSS TOOOOOO!!!!!!1.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 09:11
So every time someone says something negative, it means theyre a racist?

DAVID,BALSDON IS AN ARCH-RACIST AND NO APOLOGIES SHOULD BE FORTHCOMING FOR THAT.

GO BACK AND PERUSE HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS BLOG AND ENLIGHTEN YOURSELF BEFORE YOU MAKE THE ABOVE ACCUSATIONS.POOR RICHARD IS PROBABLY DRAINED-OUT BY HIS PUERILE AND PUKISH DIATRIBE HE HAS BEEN SPEWING HERE.

HE PUT RICHARD ON THE ALTAR FOR HIS POLITICAL CONVERSIONS AND HE DOESN`T WANT TO HEAR RICHARD`S VIEWS BUT WANT TO PRESSURE HIM TO CHANGE HIS MORAL STANCE AND BECOME A CONSERVATIVE LIKE HIM.

HE DENIED THAT WHEN HE REFER TO MURDERERS,RAPISTS AND ROBBERS HE REFERS TO BLACKS BUT CONTRADICTED HIMSELF WHEN HE ASSERTED THAT IF HE CAN COME ACCROSS WHITE PERPETRATORS HE`LL BE EQUALLY CONDEMNATORY MEANING THAT AT THIS STAGE HE WAS INDEED REFFERRING TO BLACKS AND HE IS A ROTTEN APPLE WHO IS TRYING TO INFECT OTHERS AND SO RICHARD IS JUSTIFIED IN BOOTING HIM OUT.
Richard Catto Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 12:53
Obaht, I see no reason to censor Tim.

I very rarely censor people. When I do it is because they are harassing me personally (or others without good cause) or just generally leaving dumbass comments.

I tolerate them for awhile, then I warn them and if they continue to sing the same tune, I start deleting them. If that doesn’t persuade them onto a new course, I go ahead and unapprove all the comments they have ever made on here and that means none of their comments gets automatically published.

I’ve had one person like that so far.
Obaht Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 15:35
From cecil:

sorry to be the nasty one. I was never a racist, i voted YES and I voted for the ANC in 1994 hoping they will really bring change and hope.

For an Arikaans whitey from Potch University it was quite wild. I prayed that it will work out and worked for the Gauteng government to help bring change. Sadly, like the rest of Africa they feathered their nests and filled their pockets. Newly appointed ANC government officials demanded R20 000-00 bribes at lunches (paid by the consultants)for projects.

City of JHB stopped approving housing developments in specific areas because of no electricity. The rest is a joke.

Then I worked in Nigeria for 2 years, helping to establish MTN there. Every single Abu, Kola and Babo in Nigeria had to rely on a small Japanese generator filled with blackmarket petrol to charge their MTN Nokia cell phones and run their Korean fridges to sell plastic bags filled with cold water.

The big cronies drove around in black bulletproof Mercedes Gelandewagens. Sorry, Africa is a joke and the joke is on every political correct dude with his hemp T-shirt and Xhosa girlfriend.

If after 52 years of freedom Nigeria, with all its oil and mineral wealth could not even get electricity supply to it people how the hell will the ANC get it right.

My advice: Buy a generator running on diesel, invest in a 2000liter fuel tank, hook it up and hope that the organic tomatos your Xhosa girlfriend grows will go well with the goat meat her father sends from Transkei ~ that is, if the taxi makes it on the high quality roads build since freedom.

Africa is a joke but the joke is on the poor people living there.
daniel Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 18:31
Reading the comments on this blogsite one becomes aware of the extent of the damage done in this country. The racism from both sides is so overwhelming that one has to remind oneself that we are not actually at war with each other! Scary to think that our children are growing up with our distorted fears and anger imprinted on them.

It should be clear by now that the current situation in this country is close to boiling point. The present and future energy crisis might just be the spark that sets this republic ablaze, because it is certain to have major negative effects in all areas of life. We should stop blaming and start doing, because the whites won’t go away and the blacks wont go away and our racism wont go away. The only thing that can save this country from a racist fuelled war is a true leader (of any colour)who has intelligence, but above all compassion.

Unfortunately the list of possible candidates for this highly demanding job seems to be a blank sheet at this stage. What are we going to do?
Obaht Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 19:25
I have come to the understanding that most whites are not welcome in Africa except as tourists or investors, and even then they are suspect to some degree. For example, even that multi millioniare in Zimbabwe – Van Hoogenstraten was arrested and he LOVED mugabe!

I suppose most whites in SA can’t be trusted.

We are going to miss South Africa deeply.
Ed Carson Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 12:23
“I have come to the understanding that most whites are not welcome in Africa except as tourists or investors”

Exactly. You’re getting there, my boy.

Slowly yet surely the world is seeing through the fake images of black tolerance (of Whites). Make no mistake about it, this will affect not only the way the White world views Africa, but also, and more importantly in my opinion how it views blacks in its own backyard. The downward spiral of South Africa into another Zimbabwe (or better yet, another Kenya) will convince many Whites of the necessity of getting rid of their resident parasites — by deporting them to where they came from. Isn’t that the chief complaint about slavery – how blacks were brought to the new world from their “homelands” against their own will ? About time we gave them the justice they deserve, hey.
Marko Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 19:52
I see our Minister of Energy affairs came up with a list of ‘helpful hints’ for us to save electricity. What a dumb shit, we are in big trouble boys and girls, it’s gonna be a dark and cold winter.

HEY,MARKO,OBAHT,BALSDON,DAVID YOU ARE NOT IN SOUTH AFRICA BUT IN SIBERRRRIIIIAAAA!YOU LOOK LIKE SIIBEERRRIIIAAANNNNSSS TOOOOOO!!!!!!1.

I see Tim has finally lost the plot, what a silly chap.
Obaht Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 20:59
singiswa, never understood the plot in the first place.

I think he has tertiary syphilis. Tertiary syphilis can attack the nervous system and it results in insanity.

Clearly, after dealing with him on this blog, he appears insane.
Marko Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 21:09
Yes, definitely exhibiting dementia of some sort – Not unlike our friend, uncle Bob M in Zim.
Obaht Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 23:51
“Not unlike our friend, uncle Bob M in Zim.”

Come to think of it I wonder if Mad Bob has tertiary syphilis? It may help to explain a lot.

I understand that Hitler was ravaged with syphilis in his last couple of years which is why he did what he did. He was also paranoid and thought that the free-masons were trying to sabotage the German economy. I also remember reading once that, in his dying breath, Hitler kept repeating: “YOU ARE NOT IN GERMANY BUT IN SIBERRRRIIIIAAAA!YOU LOOK LIKE SIIBEERRRIIIAAANNNNSSS TOOOOOO!!!!!!1. Eva Braun, his chick, was quite startled and was so scared that she shot herself. She had syphilis too.

Maybe singiswa is following a pattern here.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 08:49
Ai,ai ai!Going through these contributions its like listening to kids at a kindergarten babbling and prattling with nothing much to complain about and yes!It makes me sad that adults should not have coherent insights and hindsighyts but are pussyfooting so as to achieve their narrow-minded nefarious,dubious,Machievallian and frivolous goals whereby in the end we will be shouting robust and lively debate and shake hands then they will come back here and utter;I`m not a racist because I have just had a robust and lively debate with Tim AND WE SHOOK HANDS AFTERWARDS!

hEY-MAN!tIME FOR DEBATE ENDED IN 1990 AND WHAT FOLLOWED THEN WAS THE BUILDING OF FOUNDATIONS TO START TO BUILD A TRULY NON-RACIST SOCIETY AND COUNTRY ANFD IN FACT IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECT “DE KLERK MADE A NATIONAL STATEMENT TO THAT EFFECT WHEN HE CALLED ON WHITES TO ADAPT OR DIE”!

WHERE WERE YOU ALL THIS TIME?IN EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES KILLING PEOPLE AS THIS SEEMS TO BE OBAHT,MARKO,DAVID,DANIEL AND BALSDONS PASTIME.TO KILL PEOPLE LIKE THE SATANIST IN PRETORIA WHO MURDERED THAT HUMAN BABY.

OBAHT,IN THE MID-90`S I WAS INVOLVED WITH A CHARISMATIC CHURCH IN PRETYORIA THAT WAS FIGHTING OCCULT AND SATANIC CULTS AT THE APPIES AND A BUILDING CALLED SCHUBART PARK AND BABIES WERE ABDUCTED OR LURED TO BE KILLED TO CONDUCT RITUALS FESTIVITIES IN THE NAME OF LUCIPHER.
Tim Singiswa Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 09:07
RICHARD,TELL THESE TAAIKOPPE THAT SEVEN YEARS AGO I NOMINATED TWO WHITE MEN TO MBEKI FOR AN AWARD OF BRAVERY FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL RDP PROGRAMME THEY EMBARKED-ON DURING THE APARTHEID ERA AND I DID NOT FAIL BECAUSE THEY WERE UNDESERVING BUT BECAUSE I WAS REGARDED AS A BOEREMAG SINCE IT WAS THE TIME I WAS PLEADING FOR THEM TO BE REFERRED TO THE EXECUTIVE AND NOT JUDICIARY.

FOR YOUR RECORD THE WHITES I`M REFFERRING TO IARE:HANS SCHEIBERT{AN ATTORNEY OPPOSITE RASSOOOLS OFFICE}AND DR HOWARD PIERCE AT UCT.

FEW WEEKS AGO DONALDSON DEDICATED HIS COLUMN TO ME AFTER HE WAS TAKEN ABACK BY MY ASSERTIONS THAT FROM THEN ON I WAS GONNA BECOME A RACIST IN ORDER TO OVERWHELM AND OVERCOME RACISTS AND I AM STILL AN ADHERENT OF THAT PHILOSOPHY.

FEW YEARS AGO BRENDAN SEERY WROTE AN ARTICLE WHERE HE ALLUDED TO THE FACT THAT THE TROUBLES IN ZIMBABWE ARE ATTRIBUTED TO WHITES FROM THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT`S SPECIAL FORCES AND HE SPOKE FROM EXPERIENCE SINCE HE WAS A PART OF THEM WHEN THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE MUGABE THROUGH DESTABILISATION AND ECONOMIC SABOTAGE.

INSTEAD OF CONDEMNING AND CONDEMNING OBAHT WHY DON`T YOU DEMAND YOUR PAPBROEK UNCLES IN EUROPE AND THE WEST LIFT THEIR SANCTIONS SINCE THEY ARE HURTING ORDINARY PEOPLE.I WILL DEFEND MUGABE AGAINST IMPERIALIST,COLONIALIST,MISSIONARY,RIGHTWING,ZIONIST AND NAZI ATTACKS BUT WON`T CONDONE ANY WRONGDOINGS BY HIM IF THEY CXAN BE BUTTRESSED WITH EVIDENCE.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME NOW-OBAHT AND YOPUR DEMENTED AND MORONIC GANG?
Marko Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 10:29
Wow, what a tirade. Once again Tim demonstrates his inferiority complex by feeling the need to shout and scream over everybody else.
LOL, what a bunch of bull crap! “…I WAS GONNA BECOME A RACIST IN ORDER TO OVERWHELM AND OVERCOME RACISTS”
You do that buddy.
Again you have steered this thread away from its original topic with your mindless diatribe.
Of course it is not surprising that you support Mugabe as the two of you share a mental illness.
You need to seek treatment immediately old chap. Actually, maybe not – you are rather amusing.
While trying to find this alleged Donaldson article I came upon more evidence of your mad rantings, funny shit really:
tim-singiswa-achieves-fame-of-a-sort/
Marko Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 11:08
Don’t you guys just love the intelligent and sound advice from our Minister of Energy and Minerals: “Go to sleep earlier so that you can grow and be cleverer. Boil less water, use the microwave rather than stove, take a shower and not a shallow bath”.
Banana republic here we come.
Daniel Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 12:09
It is indeed a pity that people with limited intelligence have to resort to personal insults in order to save face. The lack of knowledge regarding the Free Masons, misquoting and re-interpreting De Klerk, blaming whites for Zims demise, calling critics killers, dragging poor Satan into the whole sordid story – PLEASE!
Marko Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 12:21
Lol, don’t forget the mafia and scientologists too
Daniel Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 13:26
Could not resist having a look at the blogsite Marko was referring to. Do not know why I bothered though, because the man is so thick that I am amazed that he knows how to operate a pc. ( As far as the grammar is concerned we should understand that the whites are to blame for that, too.)

But who is to blame for the IQ?

So 14 years on and we are all in the bowl, rainbow coloured, multilingual and smelly. Bring on Zuma so that he can do the final flush.
Obaht Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 16:09
Haha! singiswa,

I see that the Sunday Times columnist to a swipe at your stupidity as well:

Quote:
“David Bullard on November 26th, 2007

Id describe Tim (Singiswa) as having too much time on his hands and being an unproductive oxygen thief..no offence. Just think how rich he would be if, like Donaldson and I, he got paid for his vast output.”

And there you have it folks, singiswa has left his trail, like the poo stains in his underwear, all over the web.

He is certifiable if not psychotic!

Once more this blog creator does not have the guts to tell singiswa that the free-masons are NOT responsible for the decaying infrastructure we are witnessing.

I guess if catto agreed with me about this, singiswa would then call him a racist.

Go figure?
Obaht Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 16:19
More singiwsa drivel: (here he talks about himself in the third person)

“BROTHER TIM IS A HERO AND WILL GO DOWN IN THE HISTORIES OF THE UNIVERSE AS SUCH.PLEASE DONT DISRESPECT HIS FILMMAKING ABILITIES.HE WILL SHORTLY RELEASE A MOVIE FEATURING ME AS THE MAIN HERO TIM SINGISWA,AND IT WILL BE CALLED THE COOK, THE THIEF, THE SOUP KITCHENS, AND THE RACIST WHITE PEOPLE, AND THE HERO TIM SINGISWA IF IT IS NOT NOMINATED AND WINS EVERY CATEGORY AT THE OSCARS NEXT YEAR IT WILL ONLY BE BECAUSE THE ACADEMY IS RUN BY RACIST WHITE PEOPLE.

JUNO MY SISTER YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE WHITE PEOPLE LEAVING FOR EUROPE.WE SHOULD BUILD A BIG BOAT AND SET THEM ON THEIR WAY.SOUTH AFRICA WILL THEN SINK TO A LEVEL THATS MORE IN-LINE WITH THE COUNTRIES RUN BY OUR BROTHERS UP NORTH.NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

PLEASE EXCUSE THE CAPITCAL LETTERS OF THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE WHITE PEOPLE OF THIS WEBSITE.IM USING TIMS KEYBOARD AND THE CAPS LOCK KEY WAS DESTROYED ONE NIGHT WHEN TIM FELL ASLEEP ON THE KEYBOARD AND DROOLED OVER THE CAPS LOCK KEY WHICH DISOLVED IT.WE HAVE NO WAY OF CHANGING THIS.THE WHITE PEOPLE MUST GIVE UP THEIR KEYBOARDS AS WELL AND BRING THEM TO HAND OUT WITH THE SOUP AT THE SOUP KITCHENS.”

As we can all see from the mouth of singiswa: Not only his he a lunatice, he is also a RACIST lunatic!

Get lost singiswa.
daniel Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 17:59
Richard, are you perhaps a Free Mason? (if I am allowed to ask?)

I am starting to suspect that you are allowing Tim’s remarks only to expose a certain general mentality…. one we prefer not to face.

As for the Minister’s announcement: get ready for a population explosion. In future we shall refer the all babies born within the next few years as Eskom Babies. We should inform Government now already so they have enough time to plan a few more powerstations to supply the demand.

“SOUTH AFRICA WILL THEN SINK TO A LEVEL THATS MORE IN-LINE WITH THE COUNTRIES RUN BY OUR BROTHERS UP NORTH.NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.”
TIM SINGISWA Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 08:52
THE FREEMASONS WHO HOLD STRATEGIC POSITIONS IN GOVERNMENT ORDERED THE CAPTAINS OF THE INDUSTRY WHO ARE REGULARS AT FREEMASONS SEEDY,DINGHY,DARK AND GHOSTLY PROSTITUTE AND NIGERIANS SORROUNDED BUILDINGS NOT TO HONOUR THEIR UNDERTAKING TO ENSURE THAT TEN YEARS DOWN THE LINE WE ARE ENJOYING SMOOTH SUPPLY OF ENERGY JUST AS THEY CONNIVE WITH THOSE PALE-AND-BALD CAPITALISTS THEY PAY TO BUILD CHEAP HOUSES TO TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN SO THAT BLACKS CAN FIGHT WITH THEIR GOVERNMENT AND DECIDE TO VOTE FOR THE DA SO THAT WHITE HERETICAL RULE CAN BE REINSTATED BUT IT WON`T.

YOU ARE NOT EVEN WELCOMED IN WHITE RULED COUNTRIES BECAUSE THEY ALREADY KNOW THAT YOU ARE EVIL AND INHUMAN AND THE DUBAIS MUST WWATCH OUT.

OH,I FORGOT!THE BRITISH IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS RRETURNED A BLACK GIRL WHOM HER WHITE EEMPLOYER IN SOUTH AFRICA ATTEMPTED TO SSMUGGLE TO THEIR RELATIVES IN ENGLAND FOR EENSLAVEMENT PURPOSES AND THE IMMIGRATION AAUTHORITIES SMELT A RAT AAND COULD NOT AALLOW A HUMAN BEING TO BE TRAFFICKED RIGHT UUNDER THEIR NOSES.
daniel Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 09:35
Timmy, I see you are still experiencing a black-out.
Obaht Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 15:33
SSINGISWA,

YYOU MMAY BBE TTHE BBIGGEST LLOSER I HHAVE EEVER SSEEN ON TTHE IINTERNET!

Even catto is at a loss for words. I suspect that he thinks you are a bit a moron now as well.
Obaht Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 15:35
HHAVE SSOMEONE CCURE YYOUR SSTUTTERING PPROBLEM AS WWELL
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 17:33
Heres the Problem:

Vindication for the racists
No Longer Optimistic
Outrage mounts over power cuts
Tired of this shit
And heres an example of a solution (there are more):

Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor
Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power
Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor
What do I think is going to happen?

I think that South African businesses will find creative solutions to solve their energy problems. I believe that Eskom and the South African government will take effective measures to limit the damage to our economy.

The IOL article (linked above) lists several measures that Eskom is taking to resolve this problem, among them a subsidy program to assist homeowners to install solar heat. Eskom is actually prepared to pay part of your costs to install solar panels, if you wish to do so now. Thats something you will enjoy benefits from long after the energy crisis is over.catto,
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 17:43
Do you bledi see that fokon article above,obaht?that`s the fucking godam question you and your cohoerts must ansewr!!!understand?

right,now…answer the fucking question-madafaka before i get your sister to whip your ass!!!
Marko Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 21:33
Be still Tim the troll. I’m not sure why you’ve copied almost the entire blog entry into your comment but I’m guessing that and the last one have something to do with your advanced stage of neurosyphilis. Please go and see a doctor.

To answer your blustering question, yes I read the article when Richard posted it. So what of it? It just says what we already know – we are in deep trouble.

You know, for somebody who claims to be such a righteous brother you do blaspheme and swear a lot.

As I am typing this, the power has just gone out, 20h50 on a Friday night. Lovely…
Good thing I have a laptop and a UPS.

I bet the criminals and thieves must love this shit.
Sheena Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 22:39
Guys, in the interest of this blog, and because The Catto is unavailable for comment, I step in as Administrator and remind you all that this is a debate blog, not a personal competition to see who can insult each other better, or wittier. Even if some of the comments are pretty damn funny.

Please keep this in mind.
Obaht Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 23:25
“Do you bledi see that fokon article above,obaht?that`s the fucking godam question you and your cohoerts must ansewr!!!understand?”

Why should answer the question for you, you loser?

It’s a good thing that the majority of the black population are more sane than you are.

What a mental cripple you are!
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 09:50
yee,obaht!tell me about different people not the deadhorses of south africa {blacks}who have no military training and whom you are devastating and ravaging intelligently,psychologically and emotionally that are sane.

people who at the time when they are supposed to shine enjoying the fruits of their struggles are submitting and subjugating themselves to imperialists,degrading,dehumanising and humiliating each other embarrassingly just so as to be favoured by you{the white man}.

since you started spewing in this blog you have made no contribution relating to assisting the poor to beat the blues of outtages,alleviating poverty,joblessness and crime ideas that township dwellers can adopt to make their lives happy.

you are even beaten by a newzealander{minto}who criticised the government for not having have done enough to uplift,develop and empower blacks.

RICH ALSO MADE SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS THAT WHITES HAVE RECEIVED MORE ATTENTION FROM THE GOVERNMENT THAN BLACKS…AND YOU SILENT BECAUSE BECAUSE YOU LOVE IT!
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:01
me thinks you should not utilise patriotic forums like this one but look for rightwing platforms like those that are springing-up all-over the world started by south african rightwingers and american rightwing radios.

yes!you are rightwingers who are so disgruntled and embattled when reality that white supremacists have lost the grip on the country that you are trying to turn the clock back but all is in futility.

richard doesn
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:04
me thinks you should not utilise patriotic forums like this one but look for rightwing platforms like those that are springing-up all-over the world started by south african rightwingers and american rightwing radios.

yes!you are rightwingers who are so disgruntled and embattled when reality that white supremacists have lost the grip on the country that you are trying to turn the clock back but all is in futility.

richard doesnt have the time to sit in judgement and cut people-off because he is restless trying to stabilise and harmonise the country.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:40
WHAT A DAMN CHEEK!YOU ARE A SOJOURNER HERE IN MY MOTHERLAND AND YOU COME AND TELL ME I MUST LEAVE?

THIS IS AFRICA THE LAND FOR THE BLESSED AND I`M CLASSIFIED AN AFRICAN MEANING I`M AT HOME./GO JUMP AT THE HIGHEST SEA BECAUSE I WILL NOT BE TOLD BY YOU TO EMIGRATE.
Marko Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:28
Dear Tim, pal, buddy.
We are not sojourners here. Like you, we are born in this country.
It is not your motherland either you stupid racist. Your forefathers, in an act of genocide almost wiped out the original indigenous people.
If you don’t like to be told to emigrate then stop telling others to.
Btw, what have you contributed “relating to assisting the poor to beat the blues of outtages,alleviating poverty,joblessness and crime ideas that township dwellers can adopt to make their lives happy”
Let me answer for you: nothing!
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 15:29
Markooo,never again insult my intelligency,damage my reputation,impair my dignity and offend me by calling me pal or buddy since you are a rightwinger and this will lead to those who know my principles likening me to a rightwinger too.

Until such time when you,balsdon,obaht and the likes atone and repent in accepting that the wounds and pains of apartheid are still being nursed by its victims and come-up with initiatives to heal them we are enemies.do i make myself clear there…gentlemen?you`re dismissed and you may go!!!
Marko Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 16:59
Timmy old pal, I do it because I know what a racist you are and how much you hate for whites to be buddies with blacks.
I don’t need to insult your ‘intelligency’, you manage to do that all by yourself. In fact, your syphilis symptoms are so bad that you should go right now and trepan yourself.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:07
bALSDON!WE CAN`T BUILD OVER DIRT FROM THE PAST INHUMAN REGIME.

APARTHEID WAS REPEALED IN OUR STATUTE BOOKS BUT THEORY{SPIRITUAL,PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL APARTHEID IS STILL IN TH MINDS OF ITS BENEFICIARIES AND THAT IS THE DIRT I`M TALKING ABOUT.

tHE FACT THAT WHITES ARE RELUCTANT TO CRITICISE WHITES AS YOU GOT ANTSY AND ANGRY WHEN I REFERRRED TO THE FREEMASON ITS AN INDICATION THAT YOU ARE STILL HOLDING-ON GRIPS OF THE LAAGER AND YOU STILL PATRONISE AND UNDERMINE THE BLACS OF THIS COUNTRY.

THE FACT THAT WHITES FAILED TO ISSUE A STRONG UNITED VOICE AGAINST THAT SKIELLIK KILLER OF MOTHERS AND BABIES INDICATE THAT THEY CELEBRATED HENCE THEY ARE DOING EVERTHING TO SAVE THE MONSTER BY INSISTING THAT HE MUST GET PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT WITH THE HOPE THAT THE RESULTS WILL EXONERATE HIM.

THE ABOVE MAKE ME TO CONCLUDE THAT I MUST STILL EXPECT WHITES TO BUMP ME OFF THE ROAD AND COME-OUT WITH THEIR .303`S JUST TO SEE WHAT A SHIT SCARED BLACK LOOKS LIKE AND THEN DRIVE-OFF LEAVING ME THERE TO NURSE MY WOUNDS.

THE FACT THAT YOU DON`T SEE RICHARD AS DOING THE RIGHT THING AND YOU SEEK TO DISCOURAGE HIM AND DRAG HIM BACK INTO THE LAAGER IS REASON ENOUGH FOR ME TO BELIEVE YOU ARE A NNASTY LITTLE SONOFABEECH WHO IS EVEN MMISINFORMING AND DISINFORMING HIS GRAND-CCHILDREN.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:43
Richard Catto Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 10:00
Tim, Balsdon is irrational. He expects white racist bastards to be forgiven, and we must all move on.

But when it comes to blacks lashing out at whites in retaliation, then he says that this country is going to hell and he wants 2010 stopped and reckons its time for whiteys to leave. And he wants me to pay for him to leave.

Im tired of hypocritial white attitudes like his.

HAHAHAA!WHAT A PITY…POOR LITTLE MAN!!!
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 15:50
Richard Catto Says:
Im very confident that any and all mishaps that occur in South Africa will be met with the same predictable response – black governments are useless!

If a bridge were to collapse, for instance, Im certain that a million or more unhappy South Africans would make odious comparisons between our country and first world countries. but you never know. What Im saying here is that people all over the world make mistakes, act irresponsibly, make incorrect predictions about the pace of growth of an economy and otherwise manage to fuck things up in all the same ways that we do.

In a way, it is actually a compliment that we are experiencing this electricity crisis because it came about due to our economys unexpected high growth rate – much higher than expectations. That is a good thing, per se. The only thing that makes it bad, is that we have temporarily run out of power to keep it all aglow and working.

So, although, the power crisis is apparently set to grow worse in the immediate short term, it doesnt mean that things will remain that way.

The question you gotta ask yourself, is “Do you want to be part of the problem or part of the solution?”

Heres the Problem:

Vindication for the racists
No Longer Optimistic
Outrage mounts over power cuts
Tired of this shit So, please my fellow South Africans, its not all doom and gloom.

Why do you really lack confidence in South Africa?

Is it a black thing?
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 15:59
what have you contributed relating to assisting the poor to beat the blues of outtages,alleviating poverty,joblessness and crime ideas that township dwellers can adopt to make their lives happy
Let me answer for you: nothing!

NOTHING?THEN FUCKOFF TO YOUR AMAZON OR NETHERLANDS YOU STUPID FOOL!
Obaht Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 17:04
Hey singiswad, old pal, old buddy, old friend,

I have noticed in your insane spewings the you actually WANT South Africa to be on the same level as the rest of Africa. That is poor and struggling.

Look at what your pal David Bullard wrote in his latest sunday times column.

He was the same guy who wrote that you are an oxygen thief. You really are a stupid individual singiswad.

Bullard used to LOVE the ANC and now look what he is writing about them:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=696409

“Im sure the African National Congress is good at many things, but running a country isnt one of them. Before you write in to complain that I hate the ANC, allow me to point out that in this very column on March 2 1997, I was so enamoured of the ANC that I wrote that I would vote for it if there were a general election tomorrow.

So I dont hate the ANC, but I do hate what it has become. I look at Kenya and see precisely the same ingredients for the cocktail of violence and mayhem there as I see here. Its a matter of time.

Far from the breath of democratic fresh air we had all hoped and prayed for, the ANC has become a malodorous, toxic cloud of corruption and greed.

When the ANC put in place such institutions as the Public Protector and the Scorpions, I genuinely thought they intended them to be the checks and balances of a sophisticated democratic system. Now they are talking about disbanding the Scorpions and the reason is plain for all to see; they have been much too efficient and have fingered too many powerful figures.

The Mbeki government has been tolerant of fraud, dishonesty and incompetence within its ranks. The ANCs very own Amy Winehouse, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, is widely acknowledged to be absolutely useless at her job, but she enjoys royal-game status from the President and cant be sacked. We can only speculate as to the reason for this.

The ANC seems hellbent on bringing South Africa down to the level of the rest of Africa. Despite their constant protestations about offensive African stereotyping, they are doing a pretty good job of suggesting that Africans are incapable of running a country.

Jacob Zuma, who has done for South Africas international image what Borat has done for Kazakhstan, may well be the countrys next president, despite facing charges of racketeering, corruption, money laundering, tax evasion and fraud. His supporters have already promised a bloodbath if the verdict goes the wrong way and some of those supporters now hold high office within the ANC.

In addition to the lamentable state of the partys morality and its fondness for cosying up to crooks and gangsters, there are also more practical considerations to take into account. Thanks to a lack of planning, we no longer have enough electricity to run the country. Whatever Alec Erwin may say, that has to have a negative effect on the economy. Not only will it result in job losses but it cant be tempting for foreigners to do business in this country if we dont have power.

Our main roads and pavements are in a shocking state of disrepair with potholes now becoming craters. The reason for this is simple: the money that should have gone on maintaining what was a very good road network has been mysteriously diverted. Piles of uncollected garbage decorate our traffic intersections, our state schools and hospitals are an embarrassment and the fight against crime isnt helped by knowing that the countrys top cop has been batting for the other side.

Sometimes I think the good guys are in with a chance but then something happens and I am reluctantly forced to change my mind. Its not so much The Dream Deferred as The Dream Defiled. I dont know how this movie ends, but at the moment the bad guys are definitely winning.”
Obaht Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 17:34
Hey singiswad,

You stupidly responded: “THEN FUCKOFF TO YOUR AMAZON OR NETHERLANDS YOU STUPID FOOL!”

Be happy to, and while we are at it, “Why don’t you “FUCKOFF” back to the Transkei “YOU STUPID FOOL!”

Quid Pro Quo singiswad!
Obaht Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 17:52
Hey singiswad,

I’ve got a good idea. Before you move back to the Transkei, why don’t you join the “power police” and swing by my home in Upper Constantia to see if we are using too much electricity? That way you can report us to the us to the authorities and have us arrested and thrown in jail for wasting electricity!

You moron!

PS. We are selling our home to a Nigerian who has been led to believe that SA’s future is so brigth that he has to wear shades. I suppose SA’s a HUGE a step up from Nigeria.

“Eskom and the department of minerals and energy affairs are preparing to unleash “power police” into the country’s suburbs to get citizens to save electricity.

The “power police” will also ask residents to be “their eyes and ears” and report those wasting electricity.”
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20080202091033680C139920
Obaht Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 18:03
Hey singiswad,

Maybe you should move to the west like the rest of all the educated Africans are doing:

“Hundreds of thousands of African professionals are currently working outside the continent…for instance there are reports that more than 2 000 Nigerian doctors work in the United States, even though there continues to be a critical need for health professionals in Nigeria and the rest of our continent,” said the president.

Mr Mbeki went on to say that there are reportedly more Sierra Leonean doctors living in the Chicago area than in Sierra Leone. An estimated 600 Ghanaian doctor’s work in New York City and more than 1 000 professionals left Zimbabwe for other countries in 1997.

Shockingly, he pointed out, there are more African-born scientists and engineers working in the US than there are in Africa.

Between 1960 and 1987 it is estimated that Africa lost a third of its professionals to developed countries.

Some 23 000 academics and 50 000 middle and senior management personnel leave the continent every year, he said, adding more than 40 000 Africans with PhDs now live outside of the continent.

The president highlighted that the highest skill migratory flow patterns from Africa indicate that Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia have witnessed the greatest skill losses.”

http://allafrica.com/stories/200802030023.html

On second thoughts, perhaps you are not educated enough to move to the west.
Marko Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 19:33
Oh Tim, is that the best you can come up with? Your true hostile nature is beginning to show, my friend.
Maybe I will fuck off, then you can sit with your buddy Zuma in the dark wondering what the fuck went wrong. You will of course blame the white man as usual and then have to hire foreign specialists to come in and fix the power.
Marko Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 19:36
“On second thoughts, perhaps you are not educated enough to move to the west.”

No Obaht, they will see the little troll bastard coming from a mile away
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 09:32
bullard is a freemason tory supremacist who is trying to revive the dwindling laager in this country and he won`t get the attention he so deserved by being answered by the President.

leon was a friend of a mafia who donated a vehicle to him on his being a leader of the da but to avoid taxes it was fraudulently registered in the da`s name and the truth emanated when he stepped down and wanting to take the vehicle as his and suddenly produce aqdditional documents indicating that it was his car but the mafia played this down and donated another vehicle to zille.

now,mafias don`t give out something for nothing and to me this was a bribe and bullard and his paper are aware of this but don`t want to humiliate and embarras the whites and so playing it cool and its here that i beliueve his attacks on the anc is part of his supremacist agenda.

hey obaht!you once declared us illegal aliens in our own motherland and confined us to the transkei and you seem to be so blinkered that you still believe we are still leaving in those cold war times !wake-up and catch a wake-up call you madafaka and live in the real non-racial world -you chimp.

i`ll blow your head off if i can be given a chance without even blinking for the unforgivable crimes you committed against humanity in your hey days punk!
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 12:45
now,let me kindly request that acknowledgements be taken to the fact that this is not Tim`s website nor is the topic about Tim so please concentrate on the topic of providing solutions to our electricity crisis or Richard`s mission of conscientising white people.

Thanx a stax for your understanding.

you want my blog click on my name.
Marko Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 12:46
Tim, if you don’t take your medication like you’re supposed to I am going to call the men in white coats to take you away.
You claim to be a self taught filmmaker, producer, line producer, screenwriter and director. Whoa you must be very talented, but then… where are your films?
By the way, your MySpace page does not exist. Just like your career it is a figment of your imagination.
You tell everyone else to fuck off out this country yet you say you are leaving for LA?

moipone-malefane-asks-if-south-africans-are-ready

wits-students-riotingagain

Fact is, you sir are nothing but a liar, hypocrite and racist.

Obaht, pay this troll no heed. I think he’s just pissed off that he has a white man’s name.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 14:00
yaa,its because you are a spam and cannot be my friend until you can come-out publicly and denounce apartheid and all that happened in its nameand apologise to blacks to the injustices they suffered and reveal your new standpoint.

do you agree that it was wrong to wage war against defenceless and unarmed mocambicans,angolans and namibians or it was jusified?
Obaht Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 14:31
singiswas,

You said: “i`ll blow your head off if i can be given a chance without even blinking for the unforgivable crimes you committed against humanity in your hey days punk!”

Anytime pal. Name the place and time.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 15:31
BALSDON,YOU HAVE LONG RETURNED IT TO WHERE IT WAS BEFORE WITH YOUR COOPTED BLACK GUARDS WHOM YOU HAVE TRAINED TO HUNT AND KILL THE ENEMY{BLACKS},YOUR DEMAND TO BE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO SHOOT AND KILL BLACKS WITHOUT BEING CHARGED AS IT WAS BEFORE,TO GET AS MUCH FROM THE BLACK GOVERNMENT ABOVE AND AHEAD BLACKSAND TO DOMINEER,RULE AND CONTROL AND GIVE BLACKS THE STRUGGLE AS YOU LOVE IT WHEN THEY TOYI TOYI.

OBAHT,YOU BETCHA THING!I MUST GET MYSELF A “CALIFORNIA HOTEL SONG AND PLAY IT AS I WILL BE WALKING TO THE KOPPIE OR HILL WHERE WE ARE GOING TO MEET,MUST STILL LOOK FOR THE VENUE AND DAY AND TIME AND WILL BE BACK TO YOU ONCE I HAVE ORGANISE ALL.

DON`T WORRY IT WON`T BE A PROBLEM TO GET THE MACHINE GUN.
Coco Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 15:55
Tim, dude, have a chill pill and just in case you didn’t notice it is 2008. “Democracy” has been in effect since 1994. Dude, let go of the past and look to the future. Work together with all south africans – even if they are white or indian. they were born here in south africa. People with minds like yours is the problem and causes the country to stagnate.
Marko Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 16:04
Tim, if you don’t take your medication like you’re supposed to I am going to call the men in white coats to take you away.

You claim to be a self taught filmmaker, producer, line producer, screenwriter and director. Whoa you must be very talented, but then… where are your films?

By the way, your MySpace page does not exist. Just like your career it is a figment of your imagination.

You tell everyone else to fuck off out this country yet you say you are leaving for LA?

http://podcasts.thetimes.co.za/2007/08/08/moipone-malefane-asks-if-south-africans-are-ready-to-elect-their-president-directly/#comment-255

http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/britten/2007/10/03/wits-students-riotingagain/#comment-1325

Fact is, you sir are nothing but a liar, hypocrite and racist.

Obaht, pay this troll no heed. I think he’s just pissed off that he has a white man’s name.
Obaht Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 22:14
singiswad,

“OBAHT,YOU BETCHA THING!I MUST GET MYSELF A CALIFORNIA HOTEL SONG AND PLAY IT AS I WILL BE WALKING TO THE KOPPIE OR HILL WHERE WE ARE GOING TO MEET,MUST STILL LOOK FOR THE VENUE AND DAY AND TIME AND WILL BE BACK TO YOU ONCE I HAVE ORGANISE ALL.

DON`T WORRY IT WON`T BE A PROBLEM TO GET THE MACHINE GUN.”

Don’t forget to bring some of your friends along with you as I understand you roam the country in packs looking for whites to murder. It’s rare to find you working one against one. I hear you are cowards.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 15:16
Hey,old farts -go and go play bridge or volleyball and let us repair the damage that we inherited in 1994.

obaht,you`re dead already and so t6here`s no space for me to hit you at all that remains is for you to collapse and kick the bucket like your hero pw botha since cancer is every where in that tired body of yours.
Obaht Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 15:41
singiswad,

I’m looking forward the day when you eat all your words. The fact is that SA is crumbling and decaying before our very eyes.

You say you had no electricity in the townships in the past before the handover. Well you are going to see that coming back in your lifetime. You say that you like what is going on in Zimbabwe. Again, you will witness this in your lifetime.

The truth is that many people of all stripes and colours and who are educated and get a degree or technical education leave Africa. The only people who seem to want to do anything with Africa are the Chinese, your new master.

Like Mugabe, you will be licking their boots asking for handouts because you are not capable of running a country since you are so corrupt.

As I said before, we are planning on taking our expertise to the west where we will be appreciated. After that I will be looking at the news from time to time watching how you struggle and live your miserable existence.

You are a parasitic maggot singiswad. The thing about maggots is that they love corruption and decay because they feed off of it and thrive in it. And like you, maggots don’t even know that they ARE maggots. They just exist.

You maggot. Have a nice maggoty life.
Marko Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 16:30
So, I’ve decided to fit a solar heating system. Cost? About R10,500 fitted.
Tim, if you’re not too busy packing for L.A. or making home movies (as you claim to be a producer, line producer, screenwriter and director) would you mind asking your buddies at Eksdom to send my refund forthwith, as I cannot get any one of them on the phone.
Obaht Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 16:56
Hey singiswad,

Regarding the “Jewel of Africa – Kenya”, this one’s for you:

“With Sudan and Somalia in turmoil to the north, and the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe in ruins to the south and west, the loss of Kenya would prove a devastating blow to the safety and prosperity of the continent, bringing chaos to a huge swathe of East Africa.

The signs are not encouraging. More than 300,000 people have been driven from their homes. Much of the country is under siege. Roads have been blocked by mobs hunting tribal enemies. Some victims have been beheaded. Others have been hacked to death with machetes.

Gangs are roaming the streets, stopping vehicles and killing people suspected of being members of an enemy tribe. Unable to get troops into affected areas, army helicopters have resorted to strafing gangs with machine-gun fire to protect women and children from attack.

In the past five days, at least 100 people have died, although the true death toll is undoubtedly higher. Much of the killing has been in outlying areas, away from the eyes of aid workers and journalists.

I watched one night as a Kikuyu man was abducted by a gang armed with clubs and hustled away to deserted wasteland. I don’t know what became of him as the group was lost in the darkness.

Rape is used as an instrument of terror. In one township, a gang of thugs, high on drink and drugs, seized eight women and held them in a burned-out building, raping them time and again. Doctors say victims are being sexually assaulted and made to hack members of their own families with machetes.

The situation has chilling overtones of Rwanda. In the worst genocide since the Holocaust, up to one million Tutsis were murdered by Hutu neighbours in the tiny, mountainous country during a four-month period in 1994.”

I wonder if this could ever happen is SA?

What do you think singiswad?

As Kenya descends into anarchy, there’s no sign of an end of the tribal bloodshed
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 17:16
What do you think singiswad?

oh,well-me asserts here that the imperialists,colonialists,capitalists and missionaries who doubles up as members of the illuminatti and scientology/dianetics funded odinga to embark on that campaign.

these marauding youths are hired to embark on that campaign since they don`t have the capacity to embark on that campaign on their own and so in odinga wev have another tsavingarai,cfinish-and-klaar.
Obaht Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 20:58
singiswad,

You are psycho.

Like David Bullard says: you are “oxygen thief”. It’s a waste of time to even respond to your gibberish.

My time would be better served having a huge dump in the toilet all the while thinking that I am getting you out of my system.

AAAAAAAHHH!

Relief.

Wipe.

Flush.

Goodbye singiswad!

Get a grip dude!
Marko Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 21:09
Ignore the dumb fuck, just remember when he comes looking for a handout to kick him in the balls… oh shit I forget, he doesn’t have any
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 08:57
marko,congrats man for experimenting with my advice by installing an alternative to an electricity.

YEE MARKOOOOOOO,UNZIIII……P AND WHAT WILL STICKOUT IS A DUMBFUCK YOU SONOFABEECH!!!!!!!!!!!

YEE OBAHT,YOU`RE IN THE TOILET AND YOU LOOK LIKE AN OLD FART!!!!!!!
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 09:01
obaht<do you think i~m stupid?you did not sell the house to a nigerian but he took it because you owed him money for drugs since i know they supply corporates with drugs too.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 10:07
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Your comment is awaiting moderation. yee zumaaa!the land must come back to the indigent indigenous people of this country and therefore people don`t want flats but the land in which those flats are standing on.

Turn the entire rural p[eople into farmers by getting rightwing farmers to train them in all aspects of farming as their way of reconciling and healing and to avoid expropriation and if they are disinterested then take their farms with no compensation.

now we must be serious and stop talking.these ******** have been laughing all the way the bedroom regarding their escape of obligations under the trc act.

capitalists must come-up with a social responsibility programme to uplift,develop and empower the entire nation not just employees and their families since the trc act was about the injustices suffered by the entoiire nation under apartheid.
Coco Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 14:45
Tim, bafana,
I was born in South Africa, therefor I am indegenous. Why should I leave my land of birth.

This idea of giving the rightwing farms to the black people, eish baba, that is a bad idea. that is what happened in Zim and now they don’t have food. Stop wanting free handouts and work for the things you want. It is possible to have anything in this great country of ours, but get of your lazy butt and WORK for it.
I believe if this mentality of always wanting and not giving is the problem in this country.

Tim, what have you done or are doing to change this country?
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 15:07
Richard Catto Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 11:09
Wade, your comments are being deleted because theyre just ridiculously stupid and lead to no useful further discussion.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 15:10
zumaa!!!mbeki has been aiding these people to prop-up their military bases and privileges and that`s why they are so gatvol and its time to clip their wingsw a bit to slow them down and bring them down to our level and the above proposal are the mechanisms to do so.
Coco Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 15:31
The very pap you eat daily is produced with the mielies these farmers produce. You won’t have pap to eat if this happens.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 16:01
Richard Catto Says:
Wade,Your pessimism is exactly part of the problem. Why dont you just leave SA, if you feel it is all going to shit?
Marko Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 17:36
Shutup Tim, your inane ‘advice’ had nothing to do with my decision. What are you ‘yeeee’-ing about, go play in traffic.

Was at a client today and we were discussing UPS issues. He’s installed (electric) solar panels three times at his home, with inverter and batteries, and every time, shortly afterwards the (expensive) panels are stolen.
There goes that idea… typical SA situation, a person tries to do something good but the bastard fucking criminals are always lurking.
Richard Catto Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 20:05
Okay, I’m black now. I mean I’m back now. WHatEvA.

Bullard is the oxygen thief and a waster of bytes. I’ve read his blog just a few times but couldn’t stay longer lest his retardation infect my soul.

Yes, I carried an R4 assault rifle in Mbekweni in 1986. I got to be surrounded by Boer officers who called my English officer a “kaffir boetie” because he was friendly towards the South Africans he was there to protect against crime.

I also witnessed two Boer SAP members mercilessly beating a South African man who happened to be drunk, while they violently threw him into the back of their van. I wanted to open fire on them.

The only people I ever wished / strongly desired to shoot when I was in the army were Boers. Hateful little shits when in power.

I was there and I saw these things with my own eyes. The Boers did not win my heart and mind and soul to their cause, in fact, they turned me against them when I observed who and what they are.

I’m glad I was there to see it. It informed me. They educated me as to their heartlessness, their callousness and their infamy.

Good people win. Bad people lose. And that is why the Boer lost political power in South Africa. Because they were bad news.

FW de Klerk was the best Boer political leader and he did what he knew he had to do – he abdicated political power. He gave away the Boer’s political power because he knew in his heart of hearts that they did not deserve it.

I’d rather sit in darkness, hungry with FREEDOM, than with all the electricity in the world and be nothing but a caged animal, hanging off the leash of the Boer.
Marko Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 21:13
So you’re saying we can’t have food, freedom and lights without the boere?

Unfortunately also, good people often lose
Richard Catto Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 21:34
I’m saying that for better or for worst, I’m behind the New South Africa ALL THE WAY!

I’m still trying to discover what makes some South Africans so disloyal to their country. For instance, when things go wrong in first world countries, you don’t get people condemning their own country and pronouncing it a shithole and vowing to leave (permanently).

They tend to pull together and become patriotic. The closest example to unpatriotism I have seen amongst Americans, for example, was some left wingers threatening to move to France should George Bush win a second term. Well he won, and they stayed.

All manner of disaster, both natural and terrorist, and still the people remain proud of their country. Even when they hate their government they LOVE THEIR COUNTRY!

Why can’t South Africans be like that? What the fuck is wrong with some of us? Why are they so damned ungrateful and unwilling to pitch in and make this country great?

In that respect, I think it’s best that the unpatriotic whiners should go and take their negativity with them.

But if you elect to remain, then I say we should be proud of ourselves, our country and our Rainbow Nation. Dammit, we are the BEST AFRICAN country!

We must pitch in to solve our problems not bitch about them. Let’s build our nation! And let’s face our own personal responsibility in respect of past injustices and not avoid them. Own them. Own this country. Own your future here.

We should all be proud that we were born here and not elsewhere, because we are SOUTH AFRICANS!
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 09:02
In the past when we{blacks}encounter people like Richard we used to support and encourage them all the way by sustaining their view and looking at the situation now i`m in no doubt that Richard is somehow disappointed by the mentalities,approaches and behaviours and attitudes of blacks where they contribute nothing to this country ion terms of development and advancement.

I think if we would have blacks like hawkers and taxis taking charge of safeguarding and developing cbd`s and designing buildings and statues this would have given Richard more impetus to fight his cause because he would have been arguing the wrongness of the Boers in condemning blacks as inferior and underdeveloped.

Our country does not have a pledge and there`s not a single black who is busy designing a pledge.all these negatives about blacks can backlash against Ricfhard`s striving for an egalitarian society since the boers can turn around and argue “we were right all along” in asserting that the black man should be a labourer since now blacks are not developmental but waiting for the white man to do everything.

Wade,that`s precisely what I have been badgering you of to set-up projects for a social responsibility programme or striving for an egalitarian society:{Maybe there should be workshops to deal with past hatred for black people and white people}.You see W ade if you adop that tone then you and I can be on good talking terms.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 10:11
Marko,obaht andWade approach your boards,clubs and churches and get them to join you and go to the Capeflats and call all gangsters in a meeting and tell them how bad it is to prey on their women and children and urge them to now start to become the fathers,husbands,sons,brothers and respectable members of their commuinty and get them busy in projects and programmes and continue to khayelitsha and do the same?

You need to start somewhere to show your patriocy and I`m just offering alternatives since you won`t wash feet.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 11:49
Richard is dead right about whites from south africa unable to get asylum in America.

I am a columnist and radio-talk show host. I came to America in 2001. Six months later I married an American. At his insistence, we immediately began the process of acquiring a Green Card. To this end, my husband and I made countless trips to a Russian Immigration Lawyer in Philadelphia. As my sponsor, my husband had to provide proof of his ability to support me. Bank records and tax returns were demanded. I had to provide details of my employers for the past ten years. Then there were the affidavits, certificates of birth, marriage, photographs of us in happy times etc.

I was fingerprinted and photographed (specifically with my ears showing). I was blood-tested and AIDS tested and psychologically profiled by a designated doctor.

On December 13th, exactly as per the movie “Green Card,” we went for our final interview in Callowhill, Philadelphia. There, we were asked the predictable questions which would provide evidence that we were a bona fide married couple.

The interviewing officer was entirely satisfied. In response to his statement “I can tell you are a married couple” I quipped “Do we look that bored?”

He promised us that the Green Card would be issued “within weeks.” The reason for the delay, he said, was “because of 911.” The FBI are requiring “extra precautions.”

There is something no doubt ironic in the fact that 911 is my birthday.

A year later the Green Card still remained elusive. Every attempt to find out its status quo was thwarted. No information is given by telephone from Callowhill Road in Philadelphia. You have a choice; drive to Philadelphia and join a line that stretches around the block. Then subject yourself to being searched (“Cap OFF!”) and take your chances with an obnoxious official who will decide your fate on a whim. Or so it seems.

“Clear the room! Clear the room! All information needed can be accessed via the website!” bawls an official who seems to be gleeful about your misery.

In any event, his claims about the ease with which you can access information are adjacent to the truth. Despite the unashamed demands of money for information on the internet, (I recall the amount to be $50.00 for each time you attempt to access the site), I was left no better informed. The e-mail response that “We will respond by mail within the next few days.” is simply not true. They don’t.

Time dragged by. While waiting for the Green Card to be processed, my Employment Authorization Card expired. The Russian lawyer’s telephone was now disconnected. Curiously. I am the first person to baulk at conspiracies, but it did occur to me that the swiftness with which he took our money and then failed to deliver the Green Card, made me wonder how many other desperate Green Card seekers have been fleeced by lawyers who then ‘disappear’ into the ether. I also wondered, come to think of it, why it was that no-one in his office could speak English.

In the meantime my International Driving License had expired. I was told by the Motor Vehicle Bureau that due to the incomplete status of my Green Card application, I could not apply for an American License.

After some six weeks of marriage I realized that I had married a violent and controlling man. My marriage became increasingly abusive. Isolated physically, and mentally abused, my life was a nightmare. Marriage counseling didn’t work. The psychiatrist saw my shocking state and warned of total collapse. My husband’s rages were frightening. He would kick doors in and overturn heavy coffee tables. Once he nearly killed my Pomeranian. I took to sleeping in an attic room in the Mill we lived in, with a hay-ladder propped against the door.

My husband’s narcissism was such that he demanded utter obedience and 100% attention. Any imagined slight to his ego was punishable by the most extreme means.

He now started using the Green Card as a threat and his violence towards me escalated.

Most rows ended up with him threatening to throw me out in the street and “forget about your Green Card.”

The police became regular visitors to our home. Finally I was admitted to Doylestown Hospital. While at the hospital, I was CAT-scanned, extensively blood-tested and counseled by a psychiatrist. The diagnosis was bleeding ulcers and an abusive husband.

Soon after I was released from the hospital I left the marital home, fearing for my life.

Six months after leaving him, my husband made good his threat about seeing me out on the streets with no work and no Green Card.

He withdrew his petition of support for the Green Card.

It remains a deep mystery how having pledged to support me in the application for the Green Card, he could withdraw it because, as he admitted to the judge in court, he “was very, very angry.”

Where, one wonders, in this land, so densely thicketed with laws, are the laws to protect the abused spouse who is legally attempting to obtain a Green Card?

As a columnist and radio talk show host, I had enjoyed considerable public acclaim both in SA and in the UK. Now I find myself in a desperate situation: homeless, jobless and Green Card-less in a foreign land. I have no Medical Insurance, no car and no recourse to any help.

When my husband withdrew his support of the Green Card, the lawyer appointed by my Domestic Violence counselors became very anxious.

“Since he has withdrawn your application for a Green Card you are theoretically stateless and illegally here.” I gazed out of the window of her office and looked at the Latinos meandering down the street, laughing and joking and joshing each other and wondered if I would wake up from this nightmare to find I haven’t done my geography homework.

She advised me to see a lawyer who specialized in Green Card cases. I went to see Mr Large Fromage, borrowing the $80 for the initial consultation.

Mr LF boasted a great deal about his successes and told me that he would have to have $7000.00 up front in order to take my case. Naturally he couldn’t guarantee that he could deliver.

I returned to my Domestic Violence lawyer. She advised that I retreat to a convent or a women’s shelter, lest my husband’s attempts to get me deported are successful.

I am now applying for the Green Card through a Non-Profit Organization that deals in abused and battered women whose spouse’s have withdrawn their Green Card application support. (This is apparently a common practice employed by spiteful spouses who are seeking revenge for a marriage gone bad or wanting to escape from the Community Property Division laws that exist in certain states by having their foreign brides deported.)

Although this is a noble Non-profit Organization they still require money: $385 dollars to file this, $185 dollars to file that. Why, I wonder, can’t they access the records that the INS already has in their files?

I am now required to undergo another full medical examination – which I must pay for, all over again. I have gone through yet another finger-printing process to get FBI clearance – which I had to pay for all over again. I have had to go to the local police station and PAY $15 for each report filed regarding abuse. How bizarre that the victim has to pay to present proof that they are indeed victims.

Is this not a further form of brutality to visit on an already abused person?

Frankly, I can’t see why my manic husband shouldn’t be required to pay for all the new processing since he was the one who self-admittedly yanked the Green Card petition in anger.

The wheels of “The Bureau of Bureaucracy” turn like molasses laced with laudanum.

I have been in America for four years now. I can’t get a paying job because of not having a Green Card. The lawyer at the Non-Profit Organization has told me that it will be ‘at least six months to a year’ before my Green Card will be processed – that is IF it is successful.

This horror has put me into a deep depression – but of course I can’t get medication for the depression because I don’t have medical insurance.

I have been told by many people to seek employment illegally. Hello?

Maybe I should go to Mexico and wade across the Rio Grande? I might get better treatment.

How curious that there are illegal aliens pouring over the borders, who have instant access to all manner of perks and programs and free cell phones. Some of them have no English whatsoever.

Yet me, with more degrees than a thermometer who is – was – a huge believer in America the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave and who would like nothing more than to contribute to this great nation, is rejected..

What am I missing? Could someone explain? Can someone help me out here?

When 911 happened, I was in awe of the way the nation rose as one in support of the victims of the horror. I proudly wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the legend ‘Proud to Be An American.’

I no longer wear it.
Richard Catto Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 13:04
Yeah, Tim, that account does not surprise me at all. Americans suck buckets.

My political stand point on America is that South Africa should close its doors to Americans and expel all American officials in South Africa and break off all diplomatic ties until America starts treating our citizens with respect.

We offer American citizens a visa waiver program where they can arrive here without a visa and stay here for 3 months. America refuses to reciprocate. They prefer to charge our citizens exorbitant amounts to apply for visas which are routinely turned down. Application fees are not refunded.

I know all about abusive Americans. It’s not just the men, it’s their women too. I was involved with an American woman in 2006 who turned into a shrew very quickly. And it wasn’t just her. I had loads of problems with many of them on an online dating site. Problem is that they just don’t respect Africans. They also refuse to acknowledge that white people born in Africa are Africans.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 14:37
Mmm

my feeling its that America does`nt want to be overcrowded by indigent foreigners and end-up with mud on its face like we do in this country where we bend-over backwards to accomodate people and they turn against us-taking us to courts and to Human Rights Watch and the like.

Again,here it sounds like its a question of private lawyers cheating than the government itself.
Richard Catto Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 15:15
I don’t believe in countries or borders or visas.

I believe it is one world that we are all citizens of and that the entire planet is our birth right and that we have a right to go wherever we like on this planet and live and work and seek happiness.

The current dispensation of countries which deny people (world citizens) total unrestricted freedom of movement is a gross human rights violation.

Did the original settlers in South Africa, America, Europe need visas to travel to new lands and settle there?

Why did those people have more FREEDOM than current humanity has?

We live like caged animals bound to regions in a day and age where, ironically, technology allows people the ability to travel swiftly to any given place on the globe within days.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 16:55
Alright-we were actually talking about white Souith Africans whom from a distance their case for asylum seems quite reasonable and boggles the mind as to why they are denied asylum .

Imean this woman at her first departure fronm this country she claimed she was persecuted by the previous governmebnt Intelligence but was not considered.

Her second account was that she was persecuted by Mbeki and his Intelligence but was again turned down.

I mean then it was then there were no borders and no governmets just a barren land but now humans have concluded that there must be borders in order to live safely,peacefully and happily and i mean governments are just managers who are employed by voters to manage the countries and including documenting all who come in-and-out so one has to understand the underlying reasons to do so.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 17:23
Soapbox > How Eskom blew itSOAPBOXHow Eskom blew it Former Eskom Consultant* 24 January 2008 A former Eskom consultant offers some insight into why SA’s facing an electricity crisis.
Oiginally published in today’s edition of The Citizen.

Please do not use my name as I am a retired Eskom consultant who has been re-employed, and I do not want to be fired. I need to put the record straight for the public.

In 1995 the executive director of power generation, and the power station managers, decided that if they could improve the availability of the stations they would not have to build any other stations.

Hence they decided to cut planned outage work down to 7% from about 15%. This led to station managers having a target of 90% availability, 7% planned and 3% forced outages. This led to managing statistics and not how the plant ran optimally.

They chose not to manage reliability or thermal efficiency, of which reliability is your biggest return on investment. Once you have a high reliability you will automatically improve efficiency, but they chose to ignore people like me and cut maintenance.

We warned them that over the long term it would kill Eskom. We gave them five years. Well it took longer; 10 years. Now we the public are having to bear this cost because of a short-term view top management had.

Let me tell you they were all white managers, so please do not blame the black management of Eskom. They were not part of that ridiculous decision. And of course the power station managers’ other part of their performance contract was AA appointments.

If they asked whites to take early retirement or separation packages they got a bigger bonus.
Ed Carson Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 14:16
“we are the BEST AFRICAN country!”

Aw, is that your only consolation?
Richard Catto Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 15:07
It’s not a consolation, it’s an accolade.

South Africa is the BEST AFRICAN country by far!

Compared to other African countries, we have no problems.

And although people are bleating non-stop about the power crisis, I suffer few power interruptions. The last one was over a week ago. To hear the way people go on, you’d think it was a daily occurrence.
Richard Catto Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 20:10
I’m communicating information, Wade.

My experience of the power crisis has not been severe. People are adjusting and finding a way through just as my article above predicted.
Richard Catto Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 01:23
See, Wade, that is your basic problem.

You don’t want to live in a so-called Third World country.

You do not accept South Africa (and Africa) as it is. You, like most First Worlders, consider where you live to be inferior.

That is offensive to those of us who do accept and love being right here.

I do not think South Africa is an inferior country in which to live. I love it here. I am a patriotic and loyal South African and I consider those who are unpatriotic to be the scum of the Earth.

And that is why I would rather you unpatriotic lot fuck off as soon as you can and cease subjecting the rest of us to your continual bullshit whining.

Go pick yourself a First World country and go beg and grovel and plead for them to let you in. Until that Great Day dawns it would be absolutely wonderful if all you whiners would just shut the fuck up.
Obaht Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 07:23
catto,

You said: “And that is why I would rather you unpatriotic lot fuck off as soon as you can and cease subjecting the rest of us to your continual bullshit whining.”

It seems as if you are getting what you want.

Can we really afford to lose these people?:

Skilled professionals are deserting in droves

February 09 2008 at 11:31AM

By Thabiso Thakali

As President Thabo Mbeki on Friday tried to bring a sense of direction to the issues troubling South Africans, it emerged that large numbers of skilled professionals are considering leaving the country.

This was confirmed by estate agents, removal companies and immigration consultants.

One of them, emigration lawyer Eden Joubert, said people inquiring about quitting South Africa were “split across the race spectrum”.

Many of them were highly qualified professionals, including engineers, who had a potential to start a new life in another country with ease.

Robert Wakeling, of the 4G consulting and international technical recruitment agency, said demand for South African engineers in the international market had doubled in the past five years. “The skills pool in the country is getting smaller,” he said.

The Seeff Properties Group had experienced a rush of people looking for evaluation of their properties this year, according to chairperson Samuel Seeff. His company had received 50 percent more inquiries compared to the same period last year.

“I believe there is a negative sentiment brought about by uncertainty of what the future holds,” said Seeff.

Ronald Ennik, managing director of Pam Golding Properties, said the company had seen a rise in evaluations in the market in 2008 – “but we cannot say this is because people want to leave the country”.

‘There are coloureds and Indian professionals moving abroad as well’
Joubert said many of his clients had lost confidence in the government. “People are worried about the future of their children, their properties and generally about their lifestyles,” he said.

Carla Rodrigues-Schoeman, co-ordinator of Master Movers International, said that since 2004 the company had issued over 700 quotations to clients wanting to move abroad. “Most of these people are skilled, middle to upper class. Some are doctors, veterinarians, boiler makers and engineers – mostly whites.”

King International Movers general manager Rolf Lamers concurred. “Things have suddenly picked up in the export shipments. We are currently doing four times as many jobs as we did in January of the past year,” he said.

Lamers added that many of his clients had cited the current power crisis as a major contributing factor. “It is a story of doom and gloom if you look at who these people are,” he said.

“Although all my clients are overwhelmingly English-speaking white folks, there are coloureds and Indian professionals moving abroad as well.”

But Martin Westhuizen, managing director of Pickfords International Moving and Relocation, said people were increasingly moving abroad for better opportunities and lifestyles.

Skilled professionals are deserting in droves
Richard Catto Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 07:38
Can we really afford to lose these people?

YES
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 14:17
Does that article above make sense to you-obaht? How Eskom blew itSOAPBOXHow Eskom blew it…..
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 14:21
For me its that-if people are opposed to change then I would rather they pack -and-go for the simple reasons that I suspect that they are bent on continuing oppression .
Richard Catto Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 14:33
I need to stay here so that I can keep people from adopting the ostrich in the sand syndrome

Translation: “I don’t have enough points to get into Aus, America has threatened me with death if I should even attempt to apply for a visa again and London seeks my arrest on suspicion of aiding and abetting Islamic Jihad terrorist activities.”

Have you considered Poland?

I don’t have kids (yet), but I’m completely happy to raise children in SA.

Secondly why would I be proud to live in a country where adult debate cannot be held without language that you use? You behave like a philistine. Dont behave and speak like a 2 year old throwing their toys out of the cot. Your reaction assures me that you cannot handle the truth.

Seriously, are you really this anal?

Maybe I will gooi you a few bucks to get you out of SA. I’m thinking Afghanistan (Taliban controlled region) is the place for you.
Obaht Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 15:32
catto,

So I suppose in your eyes that it’s a good thing that highly educated professionals of all colours leave SA and that anyone who does is a traitor.

It’s hard to comprehend how you arrive at this conclusion. It must be fear that is driving your thinking. That and the fact that you are single and only have yourself to think about.
Obaht Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 15:35
singiswad,

You said that: “For me its that-if people are opposed to change then I would rather they pack -and-go for the simple reasons that I suspect that they are bent on continuing oppression .”

So in your dememented thinking, non-whites(blacks, coloureds, indians) who leave SA are opposed to change and that they are wanting to continue their oppression of themselves and other non-whites.

You really are stupid.
Richard Catto Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 16:04
Obaht, I believe that the reason many South Africans seek a career outside of South Africa is because earnings potential in Developed Countries is higher than SA.

My brother, Stephen, for instance works for a Cruise Liner company. He has done so since 2002 and he has risen in rank to senior officer status. He earns well. On his last shore leave he investigated the possibilities of obtaining a position in South Africa in the hotel industry and could not find anything that would benefit him as much as he currently does.

So now he is taking two weeks leave soon in Australia to see what he can find there, and if he does, then I’m sure he will apply for permanent residence there and pursue a career in Australia.

Until South Africa is able to pay higher wages to skilled professionals, South Africa will continue to haemorrhage valuable people.

I don’t consider those people to be traitors. I think it is natural for people to seek the best financial gain that they can wherever it may be.

The people I consider to be traitors are those that bad mouth South Africa.

I don’t begrudge my brother seeking the best for himself. He’s doing well and we, his family, are proud of his achievements. We’ll support him wherever he goes.
Richard Catto Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 16:17
Obaht, links to stories are great, but I just had to spend some time fixing up your formatting of them.

Can you please use HTML <a href> to link the anchor text to the URL?
Marko Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 20:51
Hey Tim stop telling others to ‘pack up and go’ when you yourself have announced that you are leaving this ‘Hell hole of a country’ for LA.
Don’t even try and deny it bitch, you’ve been SHOUTING it all over the Sunday Times blogs.
Obaht Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 22:24
Nice one sigiswad.

Moving to LA? Try South Central. You will fit right in. Maybe the crips or the bloods will have you.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 09:58
Well,I`m leaving for different reasons than those of you{whites}and I will not be denied asylum to prove my case.

However it doesn`t seem like I will be flying-out but heading for the mortuary since I`m not going to ask anyone for assistance to fly-out of here since the state department was gonna help me but i fucked it all up by backing Mugabe and they shut their doors on me.

I`m sending Zuma a list of my resons why I`m discomforted and demanding that he deal wih the issues that make me go mmmm-and if the response is negative …i`m dead.Iwalk around with a lethal cocktail of aspirins w3hich will kill me quickly and painlessly.i have had enough of the mental torture that this rule inflict me with and 9i can`t take it anymore,man!are you happy now marko that soon i will be out of the way and you will be left with those unintelligible blacks whom you are devastating and ravaging and thaty you will now be able to trample them uncomtested since i`m the only stumblinmg block!!!
Marko Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 12:31
Cry me a river Tim, seriously… Oh please do tell us how your reasons for leaving are different to anyone else, even though you refer to our country as a hell-hole.

An acute overdose of aspirin will not kill you quickly and it certainly won’t be painless. I recommend that you go and seek professional help immediately.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 13:07
y Oh please do tell us how your reasons for leaving are different to anyone else,

fOR SURE!!!i`M NOT LEAVING BECAUSE OF MY SKIN COLOUR,JOB SCARCITY,RACE PROBLEMS LIKE I CITE CRIME AS A RACE ISSUE BUT BECAUSE I WANT TO LIVE UNMDER A GOVENMENT THAT IS PEOPLE-DRIVEN AND IS ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT AND THAT IS THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
Marko Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 13:17
You want a government that is accountable but you support Zuma, Mugabe and Bush!?
I’ve heard sanctimonious bullshit from you before but this is just too fucken funny.

Don’t bloody lie to us either, you are after one thing and that is the dollar.
I suspect that you didn’t get a visa because in your interview they detected your true lying nature.
You probably also told them that you are a self-taught film maker but could not show one shred of evidence of any films you have made.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 13:22
HEY,HEY-MARKO!I`M YOUR SENSEI!CALL ME SENSEI!WHO DO YOU CALL ME?SENSEI!
Marko Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 14:08
Ok I have called Valkenberg. They want your address so they can send their men in white coats around. Don’t be afraid of the straight-jacket, it’s for your own protection.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 16:53
Mrko,this one`s for you!!!

Are you reflecting that u are part of a particular social group or the larger social group as a whole or are u regulating carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in the lungs?

YO BABY YO,I SAY CHILL OUT MAN AND GROOVE!GOT MY POINT!YO BABY YO,I`M IN A BIND CAN YOU RELEASE ME?
Obaht Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 17:08
“Ok I have called Valkenberg. They want your address so they can send their men in white coats around. Dont be afraid of the straight-jacket, its for your own protection.”

hahahaha! Valkenberg is too good for him. singiswas needs to be locked up in a dark hole in the ground and fed bread and water for the rest of his miserable existence.
Richard Catto Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 17:17
Ooh, harsh.

Save me a wing.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 09:37
So trhat`s your cunning,sly,wily and chicanery way of bowingout of complexed talks by playing the man and not the ball?You don`t want to hear fokol about what you need to hear but what you want to hear!
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 10:09
Yeee-Marko,Wade and Obaht,that`s the question to be answered by both of you!Why are you now fading when the going get`s tough?

sies!you are real bloody nerds!
Marko Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 17:37
Buddy Tim, you wouldn’t know a complex discussion if it hit you in the face with a brick. What you need to hear is that you must get yourself to a psychiatric ward immediately.
Richard Catto Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 18:08
Site seems fast enough for me. This domain is hosted in the US. I’m accessing the net via iBurst. Wade’s access is via Telscum.

Perhaps that is your problem?
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 09:35
Wades access is via Telscum.

Perhaps that is your problem?
Telscum!!HAHAHA-HA-HA-HA

YES,MARKO-YOU RIGHT BECAUSE THE ONLY DEBATES THAT YOU KNOW OS THAT OF THE PREVIOUS ARMY WHICH WAS TO REIGN PEOPLE-IN AND REIGN SUPREME OVER THEM.tHE ONE OF ACADEMIA WHICH IS ABOUT GIVE-AND-TAKE YOU KNOW BOKOROL !
Gerrit Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 11:44
I am not seeing anyone with solutions. I propose that everyone should allow Escom to but power saving devices into your houses, factories and businesses. To do this on a big enouth scale will cost Eskom around 1 Billion Rand but can cause a reduction of between 2000 and 4000 MWatt. This will be enouth so that everyone can have power and continue operations untill they can catch up with building new power stations. So what do you say. Are you willing to allow Eskomto switch off your Geyser over peak periods (1-2) Hours or control Air Conditioner systems with failsave devices.?
Richard Catto Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 12:58
I don’t have air con, Gerrit, but I’m happy for Eskom to be able to cut power consumption by geysers, so long as I don’t wind up having no hot water.
Richard Catto Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 13:03
This is an article worth reading. It’s by an American citizen who spends half of his time in South Africa each year:

IOL article
Marko Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 14:24
Hey Gerrit, where can I get one of these wonderful ‘power saving devices’ that you speak of? Ripple relay? Let’s not go there…
Please do not advise people to turn off their geysers, it will only consume more power to reheat the water once you turn it back on.
Just turn the thermostat down ‘kay!?
It is much more important to insulate your HWC and pipes properly.
Even Eksdom knows this, from their site: “NO gadget, or additional control or anything else can save more than additional insulation”
Richard Catto Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 14:43
That’s a good link, Marko. Thanks.
Obaht Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 16:49
“This is an article worth reading. Its by an American citizen who spends half of his time in South Africa each year:”

He is a “new age” guru. Follows “The Secret”. Laws of attraction etc.

Like Anthony Robbins, Shirley MacLean and Deepak Chopra, he follows this pursuit of a “positive mental attitude” but underneath he is like the rest of us, full of doubts and insecurities, and he tries to put on a brave face in spite of overwhelming problems.

The reality is that he is in the business of selling his services and books to people who are looking for answers in an increasingly darker world. That is where his opportunity is coming from.

He offers all sorts of platitudes but no real concrete solutions. I’s sorry I don’t buy what he is selling, although I do recognize that he is trying to make a living like the rest of us. He needs to be careful not to tell people to look for the positive too much because it could end up where they get hurt or killed. For example, if you put your hand in a basket of cobras you will get bitten. There is no Positive Mental Attitude that will prevent that. “The snakes will not bite..the snakes will not bit….”

He offers no real solutions to SA.
Richard Catto Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 17:02
increasingly darker world

Oh balls, man!

no real concrete solutions. He offers no real solutions to SA.

Well, that’s the job of engineers and politicians, not my, his, or your job.

You foolishly just don’t get it.

Being positive is important, because it dictates constructive action. It motivates people to pitch in and do what they can.

Negative talk, like that which you and others espouse is the entire problem.

The country is not going to hell in a hand basket. It’s never as bad as the Doomsayers desire to make out.

Listen up, if you need a reason or excuse to bail out on SA, don’t bother. Just pack up your shit and fuck off.

We won’t hold it against you. Promise.
Gerrit Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 17:35
Marco if you have a year or two available I will gladly teach you enouth about maths, power consumption etc so that you can also understand. By power saving device I also include items like insulation of pipes and Geyser Blankets. A ripple relay is not a power savings device but a remote switch. There are however proven technology on the market that you can install on a geyser that will save you 25% in power consumption without leaving you in a cold shower.
But to get back to the ripple relay that turns your geyser off: If there is not enouth power available Eskom will do load share and switch your geyser as well as everything else in you house by means of switching the power grid off. So you make the choice: switch geyser of for 2 hours or they switch everything off for two hours. If you cannot make the right choice add another 6 months to the 2 years and I will try and teach you something about logic as well.
I agree one must be positive at all times. Let the ones leave that wants to leave, let HIV AIDS, TB and Malaria take the rest. Then the ones that stayed and were possitive in their state of mind inherit The “NEW SOUTH AFRICA” that will by then be paradise comparred to the rest of the world.
Marko Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 17:48
You want to teach me about logic and maths but you cannot even spell the word enough, now that’s logical…
Obaht Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 19:06
I am being positive. I am positive that the fiasco at Eskom is going to get worse.

Spouting off platitudes is hardly helping the situation. Why doesn’t this guru give motivational speeches to the Eskom bosses to become more positive that they are going to get it fixed?
Richard Catto Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 19:13
It’s not platitudes, it’s a concrete belief that South Africans will find real solutions.

You think it’s hopeless, don’t you?

Really?

Bullshit!

You just want something to whine about.

Hopeless is when tanks are leveling your homes and soldiers snipe at your children playing outside.

That’s the lot of Palestinians, and even they stay, live, work and play in that disastrous situation.

And one day, a solution will be found for them too.

South Africa is a fucking paradise to live and work in. People from all over Africa want in here.

I’m not worried about the power crisis right now because I haven’t experienced down time for over 2 weeks now.

The gold price shot up immediately the world knew we were going to have production problems. We continue to make money. Life goes on pretty much the same.
Obaht Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 21:08
“Life goes on pretty much the same.”

Really!

Then why are so many black africans wanting to move the west. And if it was such a paradise then we would have to close the airports and border posts because SA is such a great place for educated people to move to.

Cleary overseas educated people are not lining up and breaking the doors down to get into SA. The only people coming here are Zimbabwean, Nigerianm Somalian etc refugees.

Have your tried living in Joburg to see if “South Africa is a fucking paradise to live and work in”
Richard Catto Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 21:29
Life goes on pretty much the same.

Really!

Yarly.

Then why are so many black africans wanting to move the west.

Because they perceive that their countries don’t offer them the economic opportunities that first world countries do.

And they’re right.

But I like living and working in South Africa even if it means I will never be as rich as I could be if I was a citizen of a first world country.

And if it was such a paradise then we would have to close the airports and border posts because SA is such a great place for educated people to move to.

You have such a short memory. Do you forget so quickly the scenes on TV of Zimbabweans running through our border fence wires?

Do you forget all the illegals in SA already?

Cleary overseas educated people are not lining up and breaking the doors down to get into SA.

They might not be coming in droves, but some enjoy being here, like Dr DeMartini.

Have your tried living in Joburg to see if South Africa is a fucking paradise to live and work in

No. I’m a Capetonian and therefore consider the rest of South Africa to be a hell-hole, but I do have friends in Jozi who enjoy being there.

What exactly is your problem?

You don’t like it here? Do something about it.

Your whining is giving me a migraine.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 15th, 2008 at 09:44
For me Richard has met his obligations to reconcile and heal and I`m waiting from the former Chairman of the TRC to comment after I sent him copied and pasted Richard`s confessions.

Richard owes nobody nothing hence he separated his confessions from labour and charity issues and dealt specifically with the negotiated settlements requirements on him and I can tell you here that Richard goes to bed a happy man since he has shaken those guilt fears off him.

Marko,do you endorse or scoff at Richard`s confessions and why???
Marko Says:
February 15th, 2008 at 16:40
What the fuck are you talking about Tim, please go and swallow your aspirins NOW.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 15th, 2008 at 16:53
HEY PUNK!!!ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION!!!Do you endorse or scoff at Richard`s confessions and why???
Obaht Says:
February 15th, 2008 at 16:54
singiswad,

you said: “I can tell you here that Richard goes to bed a happy man since he has shaken those guilt fears off him.”

I would beg to differ because of something catto said:

“No. Im a Capetonian and therefore consider the rest of South Africa to be a hell-hole…”

So in a sentence, catto has exposed himself as a fraud and an opportunist who is trying to save his lily-white ass from the coming africanisation of Cape Town. He is like a dog at his black masters table whining and begging for scraps, knowing that if he does not tow the party line, he will be moered.

He says that he considers anywhere north of Cape Town as a “hell-hole”. Well welcome to the club catto. I suppose you will come up with some way to justify this statement. Perhaps your stupid friend singiswad will update his message to the TRC to mention that you think that the rest of South Africa is a “hell-hole”.

Here’s the thing: I really don’t care what you say or do. We are leaving SA and that will be that.

Africa is not a place for white people anymore. That is very clear. The government knows that “The willing buyer, willing seller principle is not working.”

The public works minister is tabling the expropriation act, so they are hoping to fast-track the process. Regulation of foreign land-ownership is a certainty and with all this it is clear that SA is going to become like Zimbabwe.

You may deride what I am saying and heap scorn upon me, but that’s OK because I no longer care what happens.

After watching the BBC Panorama documentary, “No More Mandela’s”, it is clear that SA is finished. Zuma is an idiot and he will lead SA into more trouble.

Catto, for you that is fine, but don’t expect much. And again, you are a single 40+ white male with no one to worry about except your own self. For me, I have a family.

Again, I no longer care what happens here. Enjoy your slide down and eventually, as you say, the “hell-hole” that is the rest of South Africa will show up on your doorstep in Bergvliet.
Richard Catto Says:
February 15th, 2008 at 17:00
Obaht, you have no sense of humour.

That is a shame.
Marko Says:
February 15th, 2008 at 17:09
Timmy, you’re on the wrong blog post. This entry is about the current energy crisis.
Now be a good little bitch and take your medicine.
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 16th, 2008 at 10:47
Nope.remove your spectacles and re-read Richards comments{Im very confident that any and all mishaps that occur in South Africa will be met with the same predictable response – black governments are useless!

and better inform yourself.Now,again I bledi ask you;do you endorse the above comment by Richard?YES OR NO?
Tim Singiswa Says:
February 16th, 2008 at 11:12
yOU ARE A REAL MORON YOU OBAHT{AN ADULT ACADEMIC WITH THE MIND OF A SEVEN YEAR OLD} DUE TO YOUR IRRATIONAL,ERRATIC,IRASCIBLE AND RAGGED ARGUMENTS WHEREBY YOU DON`T REALLY EXPRESS YOURSELF IN A DISCERNIBLE WAY SINCE I HAVE`NT EXACTLY COMPREHENDED YOUR PROBLEM BECAUSE YOU COME HERE AND YOU SPEW BILE,VENOM AND DIATRIBE AND THEN YOU THREATEN TO SHALL LEAVE BUT YOU DON`T ACTUALLY LEAVE DESPITE THE FACT THAT rICHARD HAS “BADE YOU FAREWELL” WHEN HE MADE IT CLEAR HE IS “GATVOL”WITH SILLY OCTOGENARIANS LIKE YOURSELF WHO WANTS TO BE SPOILT AND PAMPERED BY DOING THINGS ON THEIR WHIMS AND DICTATIONS.

THIS COUNTRY WILL BE A BETTER PLACE WITHOUT YOU AND I FOR ONE WON`T MISS AN INCH OF YOU.CAPETOWN WAS NOT UPGRADED/DEVELOPED BY ANY GOVERNMENT BUT CAPETONIANS LIKE RICHARD THEMSELVES WHO DOES NOT SIT ON THEIR ASSES AND WHINE AND WHINGE ALL THE TIME.

YES,I WAS THERE IN THE EARLY 90`S WHEN A GROUP OF VARSITY STUDENTS CONVERGED ON WHAT WAS”ST.GEORGES STREET”AND THEY DESIGNED IT INTO WHAT IS NOW A MALL.

I WAS THERE AGAIN IN THE LATE NINETIES TO TWO THOUSANDS WHEN CAPETONIANS PUT DOWN DESIGNS AND PLANS AND IDEAS TO TAKE CAPETOWN FORWARD AND EVERYTHING THEY DID WAS CONSTITUTIONAL HENCE THEY GOT THE NOD OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND HUMAN SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL AND “YOU KNOWWHAT?”EVEN THE RULING CLASS INCLUDING BISHOP TUTU HAVE ADOPTED CAPETOWN AS THEIR RESIDENTIAL AND HLIDAYING PLACE SO TO ACCUSE RICHARD OF CALLING THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AS A HELL-HOLE IS DISINGENOUS SINCE THEY PROBABLY ALSO SCOFF AT JOBURG TOO.WAKE UP MAN AND SMELL THE ROSES AND COME AND LICK MY STINKING FEET CLEAN AND GO TO KHAYELITSHA AND DO THE SAME AND ALL WILL BE FORGOTTEN-YOU LITTLE SONOFABEECH!
Marko Says:
February 16th, 2008 at 12:41
Hey Richard, just looking at your polls it seems that the majority of your readers are not sharing your positive outlook
Btw, the BBC documentary: No More Mandela’s is on Carte Blanche this Sunday.
Richard Catto Says:
February 16th, 2008 at 12:52
They lack vision.
Marko Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 16:10
Here’s a very good American website about saving juice, I especially like the downloadable tattoo art CFL bulb picker:
Unscrew America.
Obaht Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 14:38
Eskom rates to go up 60%!

Nice going you ANC morons!

In a couple of days we will be out of this stupidity and in Canada where things work and we can get on with our lives in a country that banned Winnie Mandela from entering.

SA is grinding down and is looking more and more like Zimbabwe every week.
Tim Singiswa Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 09:25
Yee,obacht,I`m getting worn-out by your nagging silly comments from a whining and whinging moron so can you pleaese just get the fuck outta here if that was your decision quietly.
Tim Singiswa Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 10:15
Mugabe is on his way to South Africa and so that Mbeki must try to arrest him as colonialists and missionaries and their sycophants ordered and he will show Mbeki a thing or two.

He will be followed by Gaddafi and Castro and they will dare Mbeki to arrest them for so-called human rights violations.
Obaht Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 15:03
singiswad,

Ha ha haaa! Is that the best thing you could come up with.

Why don’t you go out and kill a few innocent refugee Somalians, Zimbabweans or Mozambiqueans, or at least try to burn down their stores so that you can practice your xenophobia like the rest of your racist brethren?

Better yet, why don’t you try to steal a generator from somewhere because the way things are going, you are going to need it.
Marko Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 16:26
Tim, you were the first to say that you were leaving our ‘hell hole’ country so either shut the fuck up or take those pills like a good boy.
Either way, you and your comrade criminal buddies are not welcome here.
Tim Singiswa Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 09:29
I just cannot understand why people spend so much money fighting flu,influenza,fever or colds whatever you wanna call it whereas all i do after ditching corenza-c i wait until some light watery mucous drop from my nstrils then i just wipe it off and lo and behold by the end of that day i`m done…no more of that stuff!!

Yee Mrko-that was a once-off statement not a nagging-one like that of obacht who when he has full stomach he comes and burp here about his intention to leave the country but he doesn`t actually leave.

You and Obacht and all racists just fokof.pack-up now all your shit and piss-off before you pissme off!gedit,boys?
Obaht Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 00:06
singiswad:

You said: “You and Obacht and all racists just fokof.pack-up now all your shit and piss-off before you pissme off!gedit,boys?”

Why don’t you go an kill a makwere-kwere singiswad? You racist dog!

We all know that you hate refugees from other parts of Africa living near the urinal that you call your home. You stupid animal!
Tim Singiswa Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 10:05
I`m killing them as you`re aware two have gone down already and you are next and all pale and bald racistsd because the skunks are the scum of society.

Now,what you need to know “shit and all”its that i don`t want to be pisse-off because if you do then i`ll make you suffer!UNDERSTAND ME,OBACHT??d on`t fuck with me!!!!!!!!!!!
Obaht Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 15:11
singiswad:

You ranted: “Now,what you need to know shit and allits that i don`t want to be pisse-off because if you do then i`ll make you suffer!UNDERSTAND ME,OBACHT??d on`t fuck with me!!!!!!!!!!!”

Don’t waste your time you stupid dog, because I am now in Canada. You would never be able to get in here to carry out your useless threat.

Have a useless life you moron and while you are at it why don’t you move yourself to Atteridgeville so that you can keep on killing the innocent refugees there. You are a disgrace to the human race.
Marko Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 16:19
Singiswa, at first it was funny to read your lunatic fringe writings as we knew of your mental affliction and tendencies for eating rat poison but it is becoming increasingly clear that you are actually a psychopath.
Your empty threats mean nothing here, now fuckoff to Zimbabwe where you belong.
Tim Singiswa Says:
March 30th, 2008 at 10:31
because I am now in Canada

Great for you OBAHT1i`M ON MY WAY I`M JUST POLISHING MY FILMMAKING SKILL TO PREPARE MYSELF FOR THE CHALLENGES OF hOLLYWOOD.yES,HOLLYWOOD NOT BOLLYHOOD BECAUSE I DON`T HATE WHITES BUT JUST WANT THEM TO BE HUMAN FOR OTHER HUMANS.

AS FOR YOU NIKKO ITS THAT I GET PISSED-OFF BY YOU WHITE PEOPLE FOR YOUR RELUCTANCY TO BREAK-AWAY FROM THE PAST.ESPECIALLY YOU WHITE PEOLE THERE IN CAPETOWN.
Tim Singiswa Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 09:35
Marko,that system you implemented there in Capetown to fight grime and crime its highly commendable but it has holes that needs to be patched.

You need to properly take it to the Cape Flats and black townships to business leaders and community leaders to tackle crime and gangs there and develop cbd`s so that the people there can have their own rondeboschs and seapoints.
Marko Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 18:25
Does anybody know what this clown is talking about? I certainly have no idea. Go easy on the tik there Tim buddy.
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 09:45
mARKO,WHEN THE COMBINATION OF KHAYELTSHA,NYANGA,CROSSROADS AND LANGA INVADE CAPETOWN AND GO ON THE RAMPAGE THEN YOU WILL BLOODY KNOW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT AND YOU`LL SEEK ME OUT TO WASH MY FEET BUT IT WILL BE TOO LATE.I SUGGEST YOU FOLLOW YOUR STUPID GRAND-DAD OBAHT TO CANADA OR IT MIGHT BE TOO LATE MY BOY.I WARN YOU BUDDY.POLITICS IS A DIRTY GAME AND ITS NOT LONG BEFORE YOU EXPERIENCE ITS DIRT!!
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 09:55
I HAVE LONG FOUND MY PURPOSE IN LIFE BY HAVING IT ALL WORKED-OUT.i`M SUCCESSFUL IN ALL SPHERES OF LIFE.I HAVE FOUND A BALANCE,MY PASSION AND MISSION.EVERYTHING i SAY OR DO IS AN EXTENSION OF MY LIFE.MY BEING AND DEEDS STAND OUT AND ARE UNIVERSALLY RECOGNISEDACKNOWLEDGED,REVERED AND SOMETIMES DESPISED BY A WIDE RANGE OF PEOPLE.THEY COME FROM ALL LOCATIONS AND WALKS OF LIFE AND PURSUITS ACROSS BUSINESS,PHILANTHROPY,ENTERTAINMENT,SOCIETY,ETC.THIS IS THE POWER OF DISTINCTION AND BRAND.I`M NOT JUST FAMOUS FOR THE SAKE OF BEING FAMOUS BUT AM CELEBRATED FOR THE IMPACT I HAVE SOCIALLY,COMMERCIALLY AND AM VISIBLE,KNOWN AND RESPECTED BY DESIGN OR DEFAULT!!!!!!!!
Coco Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 14:56
You guys still at it…
Marko Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 15:00
LOL Coco, it is just amusing to see what hallucinations the nut job Tim comes out with next. The guy is clearly on his own planet.
Coco Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 15:31
the scary thing is that he is in South Africa, and there are a lot of people who shares his view points.
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 08:56
its good for you obaht to go there as an investor because would you have tried the refugee route you would never have succeeded.

i know you are now going to be scarce in this blog because you won`t afford the fifty rand per hour it cost there to use the interneet and that is just one aspect that will send you back to south africa foolowed by the high wages you will have to pay chars and nannies and butlers and i will be shocked if you are not back here in the next five years.you were bloody stupopid to choose to be a whiner and whinger instead of utilising section 9 companies to fight for your rights.
Marko Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 22:11
Dear Tim old buddy old pal, once again you have it arse about face.
Canada has very high broadband penetration, even higher than the US. Their Internet access is also very cheap, unlike ours which is one of the slowest and most expensive in the world thanks to Telskom.
Check your facts first, don’t be an ignoramus. Do also remove that stupid MySpace link, it doesn’t exist ie. it is a figment of your imagination.

Wtf is a section 9 company?
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 10th, 2008 at 16:14
hi,frendooo!!!!!!!!!don`t lie to me,marko because sectin 9 co mpanies are the human rights com missions,youth commissions etc.

if you lie to me again marko i`ll do something very bad to you,my boy!
Marko Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 17:26
Stupid troll, what exactly was I lying about? You don’t know me, don’t threaten me pal.
There’s no such thing as a ‘section 9 company’ you buffoon. Perhaps you are confused with section 9 of the HRC act.

You are the liar my friend, you have proven this time and time again on this and other blogs. You are nothing but a blog troll.

Stop your kak now, it’s not even funny anymore.
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 12th, 2008 at 15:19
Dear Marko old buddy old pal, once again you have it arse about face BY ACCUSING ME OF THREATENING YOU SINCE THAT WAS JUST AN OFF-THE-CUFF THING!

No,I`m not concerened about repo rates or elect5ricity hikes since my house is next to the road as a tax-boycotter.

While you are being screwed and raed by these mentaly bankrut thugs I`m laughing all the way to the bedroom to have a good night sleep under thos cardbox and plastics.
tIM sINGISWA Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 10:56
hI,MARKO,I`M JUST TESTING IF MTY COMMENTS WILL GO THROUGH SINCE I AM BATTLING TO GET MY COMMENTS THROUGHH.
tIM sINGISWA Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 11:00
NO,I`M SERIOUS-THE STREETS ARE MY HOME UNTIL WE HAVE A GOVERNMENT IN THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE CURRENTLY WE HAVE A BUNCH OF BUFFOONERIES AND SKEBENGWAS AND I WILL BE A BUFFOON TO GIVE THEM MY MONEY TO GIVE TO THEIR PALS LIKE ARISTIDE AND FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION AT PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTION ABROAD AND WINE AND DINE THEIR FRIENDS TO THE TU NE OF SIXTY THOUSAND RAND PER MEAL COURSE.GOT ME,BOY???
Coco Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 12:37
Tim that is the first sense you have spoken,

But, come on Tim, Be a good South African and start paying those taxes. If all South African pay their taxes – it would result in a positive change in this country.

But it has to start with you Tim. Start paying TAX. please!
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 18th, 2008 at 16:06
But, come on Tim, Be a good South African and start paying those taxes. If
all South African pay their taxes – it would result in a positive change
in this country.

But it has to start with you Tim. Start paying TAX. please!

It doesn`t mean in the past I payed taxes lightly since I was criticising
the present rulers who were paying taxes to it while they were criticising
whites for paying taxes for the purcxhase of teargasses and other assault
equipments but I studied its responsibility,accountability,commitment and
dedication and I was satisfied that it was using taxpayers money
responsibly.

An example was when whityes wanted a road tarred and the previous
government will throw the book at them and tell them they must buy tar
from private makers and it will then tar their road.

Now,you say I must pay my taxes but do you know that over fifty percent of
your taxes is gobbled-up by the government in extravagances and so until
such time when someone will convince me that I`m wrong the government is
accountable,responsible with taxpayers money then I will change my mind.

Samantha!Where on earth have you been since its obvious you only wake-up
now while South Africa has been in existence for fourteen years!?

Negotiations of the kind that you are embarking-on here ended in 1990 and
what followed was preparations and planning which culminated in 1994 where
now it was time for implementation.

South Africa is not about individuals but the collective so coming here
and say`I mwhite and young and blahblahblah is not acceptable.

Yours should be acknowledge the pain,suufering and wounds inflicted on
blacks by whites and help them in whatever way to relieve themselves.
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 18th, 2008 at 16:13
i`M REALLY GATVOL WITH THESE BLACKS OF THIS COUNT6RY WITH THEIR FALSE BELIEF THAT THE STRUGGLE WAS FOR THEM TO BEHAVE ANTI-SOCIALLY,RAGGEDLY,IRRESPONSIBLY AND UNMANNERDLY.

THAT IS THE ATTITUDE DISPLAYED BY THEM COUPLED WITH THAT OF APATHY AND COMPLACENCY WHERE THEY ELECT A GOVERNMENT BUT FAIL TO DRIVE IT.

YEE,GUYS AND DOLLS!YOU ARE A DISGRACE AND DISCREDITED IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD.i HAVE BEEN CHECKING AROUND THE CITIES FOR ANY STATUES OR BUILDINGS DESIGNED BY BLACKS AND i COULD FIND NONE.

I CHECKED FOR ANY ENTITIES THAT CAN TEACH FOREIGNERS ABOUT BLACKS AND THE ONLY ONES I COULD FIND ARE WEST AFRICANS DESIGNS,CULTURES AND TRADITIONS IN YEOVILLE AND NOTHING ABOUT ZULUS,XHOSAS AND TSWANAS.
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 18th, 2008 at 16:15
bULLARD`S APOLOGY IS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE SINCE SOON AFTER HE DID SO HE WENT BACK TO HIS CLUB WHICH PRAISED HIS INSULTS TO BLACKS!
Marko Says:
April 19th, 2008 at 22:31
Tim, people like you that don’t pay a cent for shit have no right to comment on our electricity crisis.
You live off the rest of the taxpayers yet you blame the whites for everything that goes wrong.
Now shut the fuck up and go and live with your friend Bob in Zimbabwe where you can pat each other on the backs and talk about how next to fuck your people over.
Remove that stupid MySpace link, it doesn’t exist you ASS!
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 20th, 2008 at 13:57
Whadafuck do you bladi want from my private domain?

Youy wanna fucking talk to me you do so right here …and so itsa good thing that
you can`t access my blog since it is not south africa sucks blog where you should be
spewing your bile,expletives and invectives.

Besides Richard I want to take the shit out of the pink asses of pale-and-bald white
male of Capetown because you blaadi think you can blaadi rule the world forever!

Yeee-markooooo!!!! YOU`RE IN THE ZOOOOO!!!!!!!!YOU LOOK LIKE A MONKEY TOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Marko Says:
April 20th, 2008 at 14:06
Holy cow but you are a twat Singiswa. There is no ‘private domain’, nor a blog you lunatic. Fuck it, you are certifiable.
Please go and crawl back into your cardboard box.
Tim Singiswa Says:
April 20th, 2008 at 14:33
Please go and crawl back into your cardboard box.
WILL DO,CHEERS!
tIM sINGISWA Says:
April 22nd, 2008 at 09:03
hallo
tIM sINGISWA Says:
April 22nd, 2008 at 09:07
He`s here,its him-I swear to god-its Richard Catto who helped me to put-up a poster on a lamppost attacking Shabangu and Zuma.

Hey Richaaaarrrrd!You are in Pretoria!!!You look like a Capetonian tooooo!!!!!!!!!!
tIM sINGISWA Says:
April 22nd, 2008 at 09:45
I`m going out into the world today, with my explorer’s hat on.I will try to see everything as if it were a mysterious land. There are places I pass by every day that I’ve never really taken a hard look at before, so I`ll keep an eye out. Examine the world around me a bit more closely.and take a different route, and see what the scenery looks like. There’s no need to be in a hurry every day, is there? Slow down. Get out of the rat race. The world is a wonderful place — you just have to open your eyes.