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SA politics
Thursday, 25 September 2008 09:19I'm so pissed off.
I don't really mind Thabo Mbeki being forced to resign the presidency. I'm not sure I like the way it was done, and I do think that the court ruling on Jacob Zuma was used as a lever to get Mbeki out, but Mbeki's policies on AIDS, crime, and energy have caused untold harm.
The bright spot seemed to be that we'd be losing some of our more incompetent cabinet ministers, like Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the Minister of Health whose denialism on AIDS and favouring of non-medically tested remedies has probably resulted in thousands of unnecessary deaths; Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, the Minister of MisCommunications who appears to have been a lackey of Telkom, the telecoms monopoly; and Alec Irwin, one of the people responsible for the energy crisis.
Several ministers resigned, either from a sense of ethics or because they sympathised with Mbeki. However, Manto and Poison Ivy didn't resign from the cabinet, no doubt knowing that they wouldn't be reselected for cabinet posts when the new president (most likely Kgalema Motlanthe) replaces resignations. Worse, Poison Ivy is currently Acting President!
I can only hope that after next year's elections, those incompetents will be dumped.
I don't really mind Thabo Mbeki being forced to resign the presidency. I'm not sure I like the way it was done, and I do think that the court ruling on Jacob Zuma was used as a lever to get Mbeki out, but Mbeki's policies on AIDS, crime, and energy have caused untold harm.
The bright spot seemed to be that we'd be losing some of our more incompetent cabinet ministers, like Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the Minister of Health whose denialism on AIDS and favouring of non-medically tested remedies has probably resulted in thousands of unnecessary deaths; Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, the Minister of MisCommunications who appears to have been a lackey of Telkom, the telecoms monopoly; and Alec Irwin, one of the people responsible for the energy crisis.
Several ministers resigned, either from a sense of ethics or because they sympathised with Mbeki. However, Manto and Poison Ivy didn't resign from the cabinet, no doubt knowing that they wouldn't be reselected for cabinet posts when the new president (most likely Kgalema Motlanthe) replaces resignations. Worse, Poison Ivy is currently Acting President!
I can only hope that after next year's elections, those incompetents will be dumped.