GULUVA is convinced that Afrikaner interest group AfriForum, the crowd that hauled the Woodwork Boy before the courts for singing a song about shooting boers, is a narrow-minded and misguided bunch of paranoid people hopelessly out of touch with reality.
If they weren't, they would have realised a long time ago that the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's kindergarten prefect meant no harm when he sang the struggle song Dubhul' Ibhunu (Shoot the Boer).
In fact, he and his crowd mean every word when they sing "Kiss the Boer, Kiss the Farmer" ditty, the bastardised - or toned down - version of the late Peter Mokaba's controversial and in your face "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" song.
When Ain't Seen Nothing Yet says it is a nonracial organisation, it is not paying lip-service. It's a fact. It's a nonracial party, remember.
To see nonracialism in action you only have to travel down to Midvaal, where the Woodwork Boy, otherwise known as Juju, and his party are sparing no effort to unseat Godzille's gang in the May 18 local government elections.
Many Ain't Seen Nothing Yet black supporters, who for decades fought hard to bring down the racist government of the boers, will on May 18, alone in the privacy and sanctity of the ballot box, put their million-dollar Xs next to a boer name - Kobus. Kobus Hoffman, that is.
Just imagine that. Weird, but true.
Incidentally, Hoffman, one of the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's candidates in Midvaal, escaped with the skin of his teeth when a bunch of lunatics unleashed a hail of bullets at his home in the dead of the night recently.
Who was shooting the boer now, AfriForum? Obviously, it couldn't have been Juju and his crowd. They couldn't do such a thing to one of their own, could they?
Return of the bantustans?
Still on local government elections, Freedom Front Plus, a white Afrikaner party that will contest two wards in Soweto, says the government must fund the building of factories in Mzansi's biggest black township "so people can work closer to their homes".
"At the moment about 70percent of residents' money is not spent in Soweto. We insist that the people of Soweto must spend their money in the township," FF+ Johannesburg mayoral candidate was quoted as saying.
It's a very interesting point that makes a lot of sense, Guluva admits. But it's a move that will also help to keep blacks in their place - in the townships.
Guluva smells the return of the Group Areas Act and bantustans via the backdoor.
Spaza insult
Controversial government spin doctor Jimmy Manyi had this to say about spaza shops the other day: "In government, there is something called processes. Nothing just happens like in a spaza shop or something."
How dare he insults spaza shops like that?
If Manyi had cared to check he would have realised that owners of spaza shops - the township version of convenience stores - are an enterprising and proud kind of people who don't expect handouts from anyone. They put food on the table for their families every night without fail, and clothe and educate their children; many even up to university level.
In short, they deliver, processes or not. Which is more than one can say about some municipalities and government departments, with their processes and all.
- This is a column written by Bathathe Guluva
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- E-mail Guluva on: thatha.guluva@gmail.com
Who is shooting the boer?
GULUVA is convinced that Afrikaner interest group AfriForum, the crowd that hauled the Woodwork Boy before the courts for singing a song about shooting boers, is a narrow-minded and misguided bunch of paranoid people hopelessly out of touch with reality.
If they weren't, they would have realised a long time ago that the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's kindergarten prefect meant no harm when he sang the struggle song Dubhul' Ibhunu (Shoot the Boer).
In fact, he and his crowd mean every word when they sing "Kiss the Boer, Kiss the Farmer" ditty, the bastardised - or toned down - version of the late Peter Mokaba's controversial and in your face "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" song.
When Ain't Seen Nothing Yet says it is a nonracial organisation, it is not paying lip-service. It's a fact. It's a nonracial party, remember.
To see nonracialism in action you only have to travel down to Midvaal, where the Woodwork Boy, otherwise known as Juju, and his party are sparing no effort to unseat Godzille's gang in the May 18 local government elections.
Many Ain't Seen Nothing Yet black supporters, who for decades fought hard to bring down the racist government of the boers, will on May 18, alone in the privacy and sanctity of the ballot box, put their million-dollar Xs next to a boer name - Kobus. Kobus Hoffman, that is.
Just imagine that. Weird, but true.
Incidentally, Hoffman, one of the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's candidates in Midvaal, escaped with the skin of his teeth when a bunch of lunatics unleashed a hail of bullets at his home in the dead of the night recently.
Who was shooting the boer now, AfriForum? Obviously, it couldn't have been Juju and his crowd. They couldn't do such a thing to one of their own, could they?
Return of the bantustans?
Still on local government elections, Freedom Front Plus, a white Afrikaner party that will contest two wards in Soweto, says the government must fund the building of factories in Mzansi's biggest black township "so people can work closer to their homes".
"At the moment about 70percent of residents' money is not spent in Soweto. We insist that the people of Soweto must spend their money in the township," FF+ Johannesburg mayoral candidate was quoted as saying.
It's a very interesting point that makes a lot of sense, Guluva admits. But it's a move that will also help to keep blacks in their place - in the townships.
Guluva smells the return of the Group Areas Act and bantustans via the backdoor.
Spaza insult
Controversial government spin doctor Jimmy Manyi had this to say about spaza shops the other day: "In government, there is something called processes. Nothing just happens like in a spaza shop or something."
How dare he insults spaza shops like that?
If Manyi had cared to check he would have realised that owners of spaza shops - the township version of convenience stores - are an enterprising and proud kind of people who don't expect handouts from anyone. They put food on the table for their families every night without fail, and clothe and educate their children; many even up to university level.
In short, they deliver, processes or not. Which is more than one can say about some municipalities and government departments, with their processes and all.
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