The apartheid government was not free of corruption.

The apartheid government was not free of
corruption, but it was hidden from the public eye, says a
report into grand corruption under the Nationalist Party
government.
"In closed societies, which are highly militarised under
dictatorial rule, the truth is hidden from public view by
design," report author Hennie van Vuuren of the Institute for
Security Studies said in the introduction.
The report was released on Monday in Johannesburg and the
103 page document gives a chilling insight into corruption and
corrupt officials under the former regime.
Van Vuuren said that the issue of grand corruption under
apartheid had not been publicly debated much.
"Since the advent of democratic rule, scant attention has been
paid to the possibility that leading apartheid-era functionaries
(in government and business) may have used the cover of
authoritarian rule to illegally acquire vast sums of wealth in
defiance even of the legal 'norms' of that time," Van Vuuren
wrote.
'Brutal, but honest'
He said public perception that the new democratic South
Africa was more corrupt than the old system dominated for a
couple of years after 1994.
This was also reinforced by the opinions of former leaders,
such as former president FW de Klerk.
This, Van Vuuren said, created a situation where the old
government was remembered as "brutal" in the way that it
governed, but "honest" in the way it managed its finances.
"In such a scenario the politics of apartheid is trivialised as
misguided idealism and the role of the business community in
such a system was primarily about legitimate shareholder
profit."
This, however, was not the case, according to the report.
The apartheid government was a corrupt system of
governance.
"A near monopoly on money, power and influence were in the
hands of a minority and they used this to either violently
suppress the majority or, at best, transfer resources in order to
stave off the inevitable revolution."
The report focused on instances of corruption that took place
between 1976 and 1994.
Sensitive issue
It relied on interviews with 20 people, including researchers,
journalists, liberation struggle activists, politicians from the
previous government, business people and security personnel.
Not all of them, Van Vuuren stated, were willing to be
identified.
"It is worth noting that a number of interviewees requested
that comments not be attributed to them... This reflects the
fact that the nature of this research is still considered sensitive
by many."
Information was also collected from various private and public
archival collections.
"It is worth noting that little exists in the way of official records
of corruption under apartheid.
"Many of the official records that were not destroyed prior to
1994 are either accommodated by disparate departments, the
national archive or are held in private collections by officials..."
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This is a News24 article posted in 2006

Be a Man, Enough Said.

Being a man is a full time job. There are many ways to define a man, and different people have different definitions, so I'm going to skip all that crap and tell you the only thing you need to know: My way is the correct way.

Men are different from women in very fundamental and valuable ways, but that for some reason--and I don't pretend to know what that is--men, for lack of a better word, have become feminized.

My premise is simple and it has three parts. A man naturally wants to protect a woman. A woman wants to be protected by a man. Both want to be respected.

Respect:

A real man respects himself and others at all times. Whether you’re rich or poor. A man naturally wants to protect a woman.

A woman wants to be protected by a man. Both want to be respected.  A man will respect a woman that's on his own level but he won't cherish a woman that is utterly competitive with him because she is simply not stimulating that thing which evokes his cherishing

REAL Men RESPECT Women 

Men don hit women.

Women are meant to be loved, not understood.

Don’t cheat on your woman

Respect her space and privacy.

Respect her opinion.

Spend time with her, respect her, possibly take her to forever. 

Accept responsibility for your relationships.

Im pretty sure that ladies would agree, there is no feeling in the world worse than feeling alone in a relationship when u have a man but he’s too busy with other things.

Fellas, that is your relationship, take care of it, play ur role in it. Relationships are a two-way streets. Take part.

Make a promise, Keep it.

 When a real man makes a promise, he keeps it. If he can't keep a promise, he doesn't give his word. A real man would rather die than break his word. A real man knows that his words are as powerful as his actions, and that they must be taken at face value.

Children

Take care of them.

Love them.

Teach them respect.

Teach them the importance of culture from an early age.

Be a hero to them.

A real man doesn't look like a woman

A real man doesn't have long hair, and he doesn't shave his chest. Manicures, however, are acceptable. Massages from female attendants are also tolerated. A real man knows that, outside of the salon, all his personal hygiene needs must be taken care of by a woman.
Any man who doesn't know how to tie a tie should hand in his testicles immediately.

Keep it simple.

A real man keeps it simple. If you know big words, use them rarely and appropriately -- at least in front of morons who think they're smarter than you.

 Think Like A Man. Act like a Man

Be willing to fail.

Be confident.

Express love actively.

Face your fears.

Respect another man’s hustle.

Think Like A Man and You'll Act Like A Hoe.

Firstly, about the movie, When I saw the previews of “Think Like a Man” I expected the movie to be funny, yet insightful, on how men and women should approach relationships. And since the movie was based on Steve Harvey’s book on relationships, which I never read, I thought it would be a good movie. However, a lot of the advice given by Steve Harvey contradicts what the Bible says about relationships. For example, one of Steve Harvey’s rules is to give a man 90 days before sleeping with him, when the Bible says to be married. 

 Think Like a Man is so busy tracking courtship as if it were a science project that the bite-size love stories lack spontaneity. Think Like a Man is on that  philosophy in Beyoncé's Single Ladies(Put a Ring on It), it makes manipulation more fun than it ought to be....it makes women more easier and more vulnerable.

But anyway...

To be honest, 40% of all these girls rushing to watch Think like a man will make it easier for men to lay them, because in honest truth they will do the opposite of the movie, by thinking like a man and acting like a hoe... Act like a hoe , get treated like a hoe .

Women like testing waters and see what will happen if they try and follow Harvey’s advice, but since you’ve seen the movie or read the book and now u wanna think like a man. WE ARE A STEP AHEAD. So u can’t beat a man to a thought that has already circulated his head,.

 But to the point of acting like a hoe, if you follow Harvey’s advice and think like a man, you’ve given up the cookie already you just don’t know it yet.

The moment you think like a man you accept all traits of a man. You become the hoe.

By thinking like a man you go hunt for dick and dick doesn’t come to you anymore, you talk differently to see how men will react but like i said, we already a step ahead, so we’ll say the sweetest things to u and you fall for it and BANG YOU’VE GIVEN UP THE COOKIE, it’s that easy.

 The moment you think like a man you learn different ways of being deceitful, spiteful and vengeful , u become bitter, if u in a relationship you try and compete with ur man, he will hate and leave you. There is no love for hoes

Why act like a hoe though? Be a woman. Why think like a man? Be a woman.

Women, since the beginning of time, have been the baited traps that the guys fall for, and yet somewhere us guys thought that they we were catching females when they were catching us.

Now comes the part where you looking for a new man, you have traits of a man now and so good guys may approach say all these sweet things to u more like Drake, “Thinking Like A Woman”  and you give him that “is he talking me” –“why is he talking to me”, but then when u meet you match, “the asshole”, remember he is a step ahead BANG YOU’VE GIVEN UP THE COOKIE.

 Because you now thinking like a man, and if you a smart woman you’ll think like a smart woman, which is not so bad BUT...you’ll act like a smart hoe

The regular questions start popping back to you, “Where are all good men, successful men?” and the

answer is they are right there waiting for you to be weakened by traits of a man and the moment you weak the successful man is no longer there but a thirsty nigga is and he is good with words and he is a step ahead of you. You may wonder what it is that is going to make ‘me weak’ (woman), well look at it this way, the good, successful men that you want now no longer put themselves out like thirsty nigga, they have the money, they can get the girl. You still a woman thinking like a man but acting like a hoe because hoes need to be fed, the successful brother gives you a smile and gets into a small talk with you, you weakened because the whore in you is out and  you act smart like a smart hoe and play with words very well, he gets irritated, leaves you for a cheaper hoe because you acting in an Un-hoe like manner, and you end up given it up  to the thirtsy nigga because the successful man no longer wants you because you can’t two bulls in on kraal and hope for joy

 What’s going in your head right now after the movie, “men aint shit’, the whore in you now or rather the man in right now has is now thinking “well shit all these men are untrustworthy” You start blaming all men now because your dumb ass started thinking like a manwhore, if you’re going to play blackjack learn to count your cards or you’ll eat dust. And men win again. Hoes 0 – Men 2.

 Men think like salesmen,you have to be good with words to sell the product, with women if they don’t play their cards right that woman is a goner, men sell themselves to hoes and hoes buy the product because he was such a good salesman.

Women who “Think like a man” think more like Chinese “If we can make it we can sell” kind thinking, they think because they have a vagina and boobs every man wants them, yes every man wants what u have but they all don’t want “YOU”....

You know James Brown "It's A Mans World". Anyone familiar with the song knows the true message of the song is in the lyrics; "but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl". Now why ruin that by “thinking like a man” we need you to “Be Women, Enough Said”

The biggest mistake you'll ever make in your life as a woman, is to "Think Like A Man" A mans mind changes constantly. Acting a hoe is easy.

 Now that you thinking like a man tell me, can the "player" be tamed by the girl who keeps her "cookie" on lock down for at least 90 days? No, she gonna act like a hoe and give the cookie away,

THE 90 DAY RULE IS A MYTH.

Welcome to the Hoevolution

You can’t “Think Like A Man” and Keep A Man.