The South African moan thread

[Trevor]

The idiots in charge have now been accused of sending arms to Russia  

https://www.news24.com/news24/politics/government/breaking-us-ambassador-says-south-africa-gave-weapons-to-russia-for-ukraine-war-20230511

Once a Marxist / Leninist idiot, always one  

[LilCerberus]

 

[Trevor]

And now the news is breaking internationally: I would like to see our idiots in charge talk their way out of this one  

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/11/africa/south-africa-russia-vessel-us-ambo-intl-afr/index.html

[bob]

 

[Trevor]

The BBC are now on it too  

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65563027

What makes me   is that these morons who have run a once prosperous country into the ground with their corruption, greed and general apathy towards the public now say "there is no evidence" that they sold arms to Putin. Yeah right.

[Trevor]

All this and now a mumps outbreak too  

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/just-in-mumps-outbreak-in-south-africa-confirmed-by-national-institute-for-communicable-diseases-20230512

The South African government is a communicable disease in itself.

[Newt]

The idiots in charge have now been accused of sending arms to Russia  

https://www.news24.com/news24/politics/government/breaking-us-ambassador-says-south-africa-gave-weapons-to-russia-for-ukraine-war-20230511

Once a Marxist / Leninist idiot, always one  

Those ties go back a long way.   

[Trevor]

The idiots in charge have now been accused of sending arms to Russia  

https://www.news24.com/news24/politics/government/breaking-us-ambassador-says-south-africa-gave-weapons-to-russia-for-ukraine-war-20230511

Once a Marxist / Leninist idiot, always one  

Those ties go back a long way.   

Indeed: when Bill Clinton visited here, Nelson Mandela told him that the SA government would not turn their backs on Russia or Cuba due to their support in the apartheid years.

[ER]

I have noticed the deeper one looks into the life of Mandela, the less admirable he comes across, and frankly I am not sure he deserves his iconic standing. I also know no one is all good or all bad, and I don't doubt there are instances when he did good things.

[Trevor]

This is the mall closest to me and the one I go to the most. 

https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/diplomatsfamilymembervictimarmedrobberybrooklynmall/

If diplomats aren't safe, how can we be?

[Rev. Powell]

Trevor, by complete coincidence, I've been listening to two albums from S.A. jazz musicians this week (Bokani Dyer, Mthunzi Mvubu). So your cultural scene is thriving, at least.

[ER]

Elements of your country's present might be my country's future, Trevor.

[Trevor]

Elements of your country's present might be my country's future, Trevor.

I have been through this liberator-becomes-worse-than-the-government-it-defeated 💩 twice in my life already, once in Zimbabwe and now here ☹️

[Trevor]

And now, whoopee: a cholera outbreak in Pretoria! 

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/cholera-outbreak-death-toll-in-pretoria-rises-to-12-79306567-3f9e-4905-9065-8a1ab8d6148a

F you, ANC government: you couldn't set up a orgy in a whorehouse.

[ER]

Not to mention you have to do Christmas in 100 degrees weather.