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'We want houses'

Oct 17, 2012 | Sapa | 70 comments

"We vote but get nothing in return"

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Oct 17, 2012

SOLUTIONS

We want,, we want, but we do not want to work for it!!!!!
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Oct 17, 2012

DA-DBN-GUY

Well you get what you vote for. Time you people woke up and started working and doing things for yourselves instead of waiting for handouts!
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Oct 17, 2012

RobinH

Well at last people at grassroots level are wising up. Vote for arseholes and you will reap sh!t.
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Oct 17, 2012

Credo

"We vote but get nothing in return"

Welcome to the real world !!!!!!

This should be your wake-up call !!!!!!

There is a hell of a difference between what the anc promise you and what they actually do !!!!!!

You will see and hear many new promises from the anc between now and the next elections !!!!!!

WAKE UP !!!!!!!
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Oct 17, 2012

Abdulla-Saleeh

And you will vote them again right?
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Oct 17, 2012

LaliboyEC

wake the hell up you lazy beings its time you stopped getting hand outs and demanding free everything on our expense(taxpapyers who work hard)...you people are shameless cant you see these idiots are using you for votes while the fatten their thick bellies.....damn oxygen thiefs
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Oct 17, 2012

MommaC

"Many in the crowd were carrying sticks, with some holding golf clubs"

LOL
our 'traditional weapons' are becoming somewhat cosmopolitan :)

I want a Ferrari Testarossa - that ain't gonna happen either
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Oct 17, 2012

oldlady12

And I want the voices in my head to stop answering me back.
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Oct 17, 2012

Hail

"Until when we live in shacks" while the money is been spen om revamping the president 's place. Welcome to the real Mzantsi. Now you will use your brains not emotions when you going to vote.
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Oct 17, 2012

BEAUTYPRINCESS

This is what you hear everyday...I have been waiting for a house for 15 years, I do not have money to support my 11 children and 14 grandchildren, I have a job but i want 100% increase on my salary, i want this...i want that etc etc. The problem with our people is that they want to sit down and not do something for themselves. You will find a man/woman, a very healthy looking one with both hands and legs waiting for the goverment to build a house and other things but can afford to buy alcohol.

My mother raised us as a single parent, domestic worker. With the little she was earning she managed to gie us shelter and food. There are very few people in SA who realy need those grants and free houses, The rest are just lazy. All the best DA...i hope you will handle the needs of our lazy South Africans. Trueth must be told and dont atack me please...
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Oct 17, 2012

oldlady12

Beautyprincess, you beauty. Well said.
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Oct 17, 2012

RobinH

Beautyprincess. A GREAT COMMENT. Big up to you.
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Oct 17, 2012

KGS000

The people who are protesting will vote for the very same government that is screwing them mxm!!!
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Oct 17, 2012

The-Rothschilds

Makes you wonder about that R200 million renovations to Zuma's house in the middle of nowhere.
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Oct 17, 2012

Mmokwepa

This pipol deserve houses....if u vote u cn sit home and wait for the governmrnt to build house for u....feed ur wife adawise,

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Oct 17, 2012

Tikoloshe

....These economic refugees must go back to Transkei, Limpopo and our neighbouring States where they are granted tribal land and in most instances have tribal homes; now they want a second one at the expense of taxpayers!!!!

...Why can't these people make anything of the agricultural potential of areas like the Transkei which are economic wastelands/consumers of State wealth....why must they burden other people in Mzansi///
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Oct 17, 2012

amaBok

This is what the gimmenation comes to. Today they march for a house. On the weekend they are in the shebeen till 3 in the morning.
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Oct 17, 2012

MommaC

BEAUTYPRINCESS

Well said :)
Build for the old and the infirm but stop with playing at being 'rich daddy' to a bunch of spoiled brats
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Oct 17, 2012

KGS000

@BeautyPrincess

Don't be scare of being attacked for the truth dear.
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Oct 17, 2012

MISSTY!!!

yah neh??? our ppl mara?? all dey want is to get evrythn for free,after getting the houses,they will demand toilets,grant increase and then wat else??? free booze from the government?? i rest my case...
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Oct 17, 2012

britannica88

BEAUTYPRINCESS i love the way you think.
Our Nation is very lazy to thinkl all they want is free things all the way.
This is is Pyschological problem.
When you get to a voting station you get a FREE pen and paper to vote. God gives us time we never even pay for it.
So all needs to be free.
Lastly when you vote you must check if your paper is written FREE houses if not dont vote.

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Oct 17, 2012

KeRataBasadi

I'm waiting for the after-life so I can come back as motsepe and marry beyonce, but hey, right now I have to be content with just a job and an average looking baby-mama.
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Oct 17, 2012

KGS000

That is why some of the youth today don't want to work for anything because of this mentality we have as elders and leader that we are entitled to things and if we don't get our way we protest and fight pisses me off.
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Oct 17, 2012

KGS000

KeRataBasadi
Was she average the time o ne o mo palame bra.
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Oct 17, 2012

HoneyB

say what?
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Oct 17, 2012

BEAUTYPRINCESS

@Oldlady12, RobinH and MommaC...Thank you :)

@KGS000...lol
@britannica88
Exactly, If we can get a goverment that is not corrupt and hard working people, this country will be one of the best.


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Oct 17, 2012

KeRataBasadi

@ KGS000

Yes she was, for the record average is not an insult, she is no superstar, neither am I by the way.
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Oct 17, 2012

Mbeki_2

18 yrs and 4 elections for the wake-up to happen! (even 4 me). . . they thought the voter's roll was the housing list. Eish - every time I turn around I see da DA doing something better than ANC govt. and DA is not EVEN so good - they do things in just an ordinary way. BUT they look so good only because ANC govt look soooooo bad !! Next stop - X on little blue box. - it will force ANC govt to do better.
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Oct 17, 2012

KGS000

@KeRataBasadi

O maaka you saw ba betere after she gave birth.
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Oct 17, 2012

cornelius

Nowhere in the world can you just get a house for free - we are doing more in SA in this regard than anywhere else.
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Oct 17, 2012

RobinH

Beautyprincess: ", If we can get a goverment that is not corrupt and hard working people, this country will be one of the best. " Agreed. But it is a very big IF. At the moment far too many South Africans seem hell bent on wiping one another out and voting for the biggest bullies with the least integrity.


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Oct 17, 2012

Tasto

@cornelius
Nowhere in the world can you just get a house for free - we are doing more in SA in this regard than anywhere else.

Only in SaaasFrika, even illegal immigrants have jumped the quee ahead of local and ontained these houses by nook or crook even in health system they are benefitting big TIME.uD.arkie miss nice olden days sometimes at least there was order u knew what was unjustly denied to you not these lies daily !!
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Oct 17, 2012

lenyora13

well politicians r to blame for this entitlement mentality.... batho ba rona ba rata go abusa maan.. surely u kno dis fatcats aint gonna build u a house mare u still vote for him..
well if u waitin for government to built u a house then wait for d looting to nkadla to stops may b u mite be get ur lousy RDP house....
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Oct 17, 2012

oldlady12

Tasto, "miss olden days at least there was order u knew what was unjustly denied to you". I just love this. And it is true, so true. You could fight or accept, your choice, but today all you get are false promises and shattered hope.
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Oct 17, 2012

Druza25

When ANC was canvassing for votes in 94 they promised the country that everything will be free. Free housing, free schooling, free everything and indeed they created a country where a lot of people are dependent on welfare. Truth is welfare is a way to keep poor people poorer and scared of voting for other party's because 'ANC has freed us' mentality that they have. And its sad too see that people do not want to work but want everything free. Well you reap what you sow
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Oct 17, 2012

WhatTheHack

People of sound mind please like FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/JacobZumaIsNotMyPresident?ref=hl
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

We want equal rights!
We want electric lights!
We want big korn bites!
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Oct 17, 2012

22112JO

WE HAVE 15,000,000 PEOPLE RECEIVING HAND OUTS. THE PEOPLE HAVE BECOME BEGGARS
AND ARE LAZY..CRIME , CORRUPTION AND MURDER HAS BECOME A NATIONAL SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA.
DID THE BLACK FOREFATHERS GET HOUSES FROM THE GOVERNMENT ? SOUTH AFRICA IS HEADING TOWARDS A BANANA REPUBLIC......MORE THAN 60% OF THE PEOPLE DO NOT USE THEIR BRAINS WHEN VOTING.

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Oct 17, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

Where do they think housing department will build the houses because our black gov doesnt have enough land and whites dont want to sell,they first have to mach to Afriforum demand them to surrender the our land for RDPs to be built.
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe - The government owns 30% of total land in South Africa bud.
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe - White folks didnt promise free housing to everyone. The ANC did.

The ANC is fast becoming known as the "Promise heapers"
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Oct 17, 2012

oldlady12

Katakata, truth is, even if they get all the land, they don't have enough money to build houses for our ever expanding population. Not to talk about providing sanitation and electricity. Or roads. Or schools. They don't even have enough money for proper RDP's to be build. No government can promise free houses or anything to all its citizens. It will always just be a lie. Anyways, why you bother Afriforum now if you anyways don't want farmland. Pick and no Pay. That is you.
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Oct 17, 2012

RobinH

Ag, with respect, anyone that believes a politician's promise needs therapy.
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

And now the Benoni protest turned violent. Rocks thrown and vandalising cars and shops on their way back home.

Typical.
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Oct 17, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

It's not that white community doesnt see and know exactly what type of life they've put black community under and such condition still prevails and they're enjoying it since they dont want to cooperate to better the condition.
Money wont change our the condition but land and minerals will make things better.
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

oldlady12 - "they don't have enough money to build houses for our ever expanding population."


But they have money to spend R5 BILLION on entertainment, and R250 million on the house of the big fat ANC leader.
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Oct 17, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

@!!!Sinudeity!!!

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe - White folks didnt promise free housing to everyone. The ANC did.

The ANC is fast becoming known as the "Promise heapers"
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Kekkekekekekkekekkekek .lol

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Oct 17, 2012

oldlady12

Sin, but that's why they don't have enough for decent RDP's.
All citizens, here's what you should expect for your vote.
Good leadership
Honest government officials
Hardworking councillors.

The house you must work for yourself.
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Oct 17, 2012

oldlady12

Sin, R5 BIL on entertainment??? Only registered now. FUUUUUUUUUUCK. I wanna party, party too.
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

oldlady12 - R5 BILLION on entertainment in ONE YEAR.
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Oct 17, 2012

RobinH

kata: Your gross generalisations with respect to white people are really becoming very tedious, as no rational discussion seems possible. Because one sees a black man in court for raping his granny, do you see me going about chirping that black people are rapists. No you don't, because I am able to recognise that one bad apple in a box doesn't mean one has to chuck out the entire box. Really, ou, just try to be reasonable. I know it's very hard for some, but you might find it quite gratifying to lose the blinkers.
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe - If we go on R200,000 per low cost house. Then your ANC government official partied away 25,000 houses.
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Oct 17, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

@oldlady12

Katakata, truth is, even if they get all the land, they don't have enough money to build houses for our ever expanding population. Not to talk about providing sanitation and electricity. Or roads. Or schools. They don't even have enough money for proper RDP's to be build. No government can promise free houses or anything to all its citizens. It will always just be a lie. Anyways, why you bother Afriforum now if you anyways don't want farmland. Pick and no Pay. That is you.
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Afriforum have to be bothered since its members got our stuff in their hands Oldie,we know that there're some stuff in our gov but once the space is there to build us house they do.
The etolling is gonna raise the taxation inflow in our gov's spocket to tackel its citizens demands.

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Oct 17, 2012

Doculam

@Robin, no of fence, but do you actually work 4 a living? Cos it seems like u are on forums everyday for the entire day bro?
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe - Hehehe, so the money lost to corruption will be replaced by the money gained from eTolls? How very optimistic of you. The extra income gained will merely dissapear into pockets, and people will still be protesting for their free houses.
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Oct 17, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

@RobinH

kata: Your gross generalisations with respect to white people are really becoming very tedious, as no rational discussion seems possible. Because one sees a black man in court for raping his granny, do you see me going about chirping that black people are rapists. No you don't, because I am able to recognise that one bad apple in a box doesn't mean one has to chuck out the entire box. Really, ou, just try to be reasonable. I know it's very hard for some, but you might find it quite gratifying to lose the blinkers.
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The good apples wont be defeated by one rotten apple since they are from one box they've to sort it out.

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Oct 17, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

@!!!Sinudeity!!!

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe - If we go on R200,000 per low cost house. Then your ANC government official partied away 25,000 houses.
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We've got pity cahs/refreshment cash and that one is not from housing buget.lol

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Oct 17, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe - "We've got pity cahs/refreshment cash and that one is not from housing buget."


Of course, because the entertainment of the government officials comes before the housing needs of the people on the ground ne.
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Oct 17, 2012

Shredder

@KatakataEmaotoAditshepe - Money wont change our the condition but land and minerals will make things better.
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I have to agree with this statement. There is nothing that anybody can do without land.
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Oct 17, 2012

Shredder

@Kata - The good apples wont be defeated by one rotten apple since they are from one box they've to sort it out.
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LOL.


But the truth is that land is a very serious issue. Even waaaaaaaaaaay back from the Bible, the land issue there. The Israelites also fought for land.
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Oct 17, 2012

RobinH

Doculam: As I think I have pointed out before, I design, install and support specialised computer systems. Therefore my job requires spending hours watching monitors, and I am fortunate enough to be able to multitask. With respect, participating in this forum doesn't require serious cerebral activity so there you have it. Do I have your permission, Sir. I note that you do not level the same question to other readers who are just as active. To what do I owe this special treatment? Can you walk and chew gum at the same time. Some of us can, you know.
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Oct 17, 2012

Tlhagaraga

We want,, we want, but we do not want to work for it!!!!!

Sure!! my man people should stop demanding instead they should work for themselves, lazy bones.
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!!Sinudeity!!!!

LOL, the @sshats at Sowetan...
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Oct 17, 2012

!!!!Sinudeity!!!!

Shredder - But the truth is the government owns 30% of all land in South Africa.
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Oct 17, 2012

VItoto

BEAUTYPRINCESS
You wrote a sh!t comment trying to please whites and DA fans, you should be ashamed of yourself dear as black lady exposing your mental sickness. What these people are crying for is houses to the government they voted for, do tell us sh!t about how u were raised up, here we talking domocracy people have to speak out for they beloved party ANC. Whites will never rule this country again they can f#cken leave this country because we still voting ANC.
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Oct 17, 2012

Shredder

@!!!!Sinudeity!!!!
Shredder - But the truth is the government owns 30% of all land in South Africa.
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I hope you are not assuming that I demand land for free.

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Oct 17, 2012

Mbeki_2

You know guys - I'm thinking that the 2011 Census should be able to tell us who owns what land ne. The balance MUST be owned by govt sure???
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Oct 17, 2012

HoneyB

'let them have cake' so says one of the presidential wives as she closes the gate of Nkandlaville with a remote control.
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Oct 17, 2012

malemaforpresident

So it is one vote one house
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Oct 17, 2012

MommaC

Mbeki_2

The government owns about a third of all SA but that includes things like streets, the land under power pylons etc. I don't think the census will give us a very good idea of who owns what. There is supposed to be a land audit going on but it is a trainsmash. They have been busy with the audit for about 5 years and keep changing the parameters. Now they only want to look at what land the government has given to people instead of a complete picture. I think they know the answers and don't like them
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