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.

Mandela Sold Us Out.

Note that this is my opinion, I don’t need people to judge me because of my thoughts because I’m not judging yours.

Now as known the Mandela issue is a very sensitive one, I fail to understand why, it’s not like he fought alone in the struggle, it’s not like he was the only man within the ANC who made decisions, but when it came to laying in bed with the Nats (National Party), he did it alone. "I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel [Peace Prize in 1993] with his jailer [FW] de Klerk. Hand in hand they went.”

He negotiated on behalf of Africans and made a bad deal…He negotiated politically freedom, leaving out economic freedom. We needed politically freedom yes, but we needed economically freedom more.  Mandela may have let us down not just for the fun of it but because at the time it felt “the right thing to do for his people and the country at large”. But he could have changed all that after he came to power.

Political And Economic Freedom are two sides of the same coin.  The importance of political freedom is fundamentally linked to the conviction that an individual should be at liberty to pursue his or her own ends in a manner that he or she thinks fit. This is the essence of economic freedom. Conversely it is economic freedom which makes independent political action possible.

Mandela had a dream, a dream of political victory. But political freedom means not if the economy still belongs to the oppressors.

I’d like to quote: In an interview published by the London Evening Standard, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela had no doubts as to where her ex-husband stood. “Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically, we are still on the outside. The economy is very much ‘white’. It has a few token blacks, but so many who gave their life in the struggle have died unrewarded.” Assuming what Winnie said was true, if not close to the truth, I agree with her that Mandela indeed “had let us [black people] down”.

Firstly I would like to quote the “Freedom Charter”

“The national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall be restored to the people; The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole;  All other industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the wellbeing of the people; All people shall have equal rights to trade where they choose, to manufacture and to enter all trades, crafts and professions.”

The Freedom Charter unambiguously states that “the mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and the monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people (socialist-speak for “the State”) as a whole.” Julius Malema likes to remind everyone that when Mandela left prison, nationalisation was almost a given for him. But by the time he ascended to power, he was strangely mute on the subject. Why did he keep quite all of a sudden, he was all for the Charter, Mandela spoke highly of the charter.

But where is the economic freedom?

When Mandela was released from prison, he put into place steps that would eventually lead to the present state of events, where not much has changed for the average black South African, who remains economically sidelined. The current system only benefits the connected few, the Sexwales, the Ramaphosas and the Motsepes of this country. 

I like how T Osiame Molefe puts it more forcefully, “Instead, and admittedly reasonably, but I contend cowardly, an uneasy compromise was reached. Black South Africa would be allowed to phase in reclaiming what they’d waited for, in exchange, white South Africa, the beneficiaries of apartheid, would keep their ill-gotten gains.”

Whites have all the reasons to LOVE Mandela, he gave them power, the economic power and now They put that huge statue of him right in the middle of the most affluent "white" area of Johannesburg. Not here where we spilled our blood and where it all started. Mandela is now a corporate foundation. Wait, he has another statue in London mind you, LONDON.

Many whites are out there celebrating, but for most South Africans not much has changed. POLITICAL VICTORY WAS NOT ENOUGH.

The Hall / Weekend Pass.

Let me explain first explain The Pass,  The Pass can come in half-day, full-day or weekend. It is something to be prized, cherished and used judiciously for it is not an easy thing to obtain. It is
Permission given by your lover to fool around with another person outside your relationship.

So ladies, how do you feel about the Pass, will you ever give your man the Pass?

(Tweet me @BossoKeMang )

NB: The Pass does not extend to women, so no ladies you do NOT get the pass

BEER Time - Boys' Night Out.

The idea of him wanting  to spend a night out with the boys instead of you doesn’t settle well?  It may benefit your relationship.

Ladies, you must know that this is one THE most important times in a relationship

Yes we love spending time with you BUT when it’s time for us to go out with the boys to party and drink beer, you’ll have to grin and bear the pain…

We just wanna drink and be happy. Girls often think that boys nights out usually end up with a bunch of girls and sex afterwards… Well if the boys nights out really bothers her your relationship may have problems beyond the territory of boys’ nights out—she may be suffering from serious trust issues.

So ladies, if you in that kind of relationship, serious and all, it is very important that you allow your man to regularly go out for boys nights out … A girlfriend should encourage his boyfriend to spend time alone with male friends.

You may wonder why is Beer time important, well it lets him be himself, without holding back.                       It  will make him appreciate your relationship.

But remember as well fellas, ask yourself, are you giving her the same kind of time you give the boys? Because some guys, especially young guys or guys in new relationships want to make sure their friends know that they aren’t “whipped” and that they’re still “one of the guys”. In the end, though, they over-compensate, forgetting to give their significant other any time.

Nothing is more annoying to a guy than feeling smothered, suffocated or on lock down.

BEER time is very important, well I can’t really say much about boys who drink Savanas and Hunters Dry, but it can only be fair for you to take them out on a girls night out as well even baby showers.

It is a known fact that if you wind up spending every night of the week together or days a week with him, you may become an old habit.

What Has Become Of Our Youth?

We are growing up in a society that has NO respect for self and others.

We are growing in a society that has no respect for culture, tradition and most importantly, no respect for elders...  I am not trying to make a generalization here, I am well aware that there are many people who respect themselves, their culture and tradition and the elderly, but I am speaking of the ones that don’t. Why don’t they? And what happened in their life that they don’t see why this is wrong? Western influence? I'd like to believe so....

30 years from today I see a country that is filled with black folks  that have lil respect or no respect, i see our culture disappearing into thin air because we have chosen to live like white people, do as they do, forgetting that they have maintained respect for their beliefs, customs etc, but hey we still wanna be live them. 

As a Zulu man, i have grown into a culture that preaches respect as one of the main survival strategies in life, other tribes as well have grown the same, but now we have chosen to disregard the way we were brought up and live like the Jones because we now believe that our culture is outdated. White people tell  us that your culture is outdated  and we agree, Instead of defending your culture you oppose it.

I feel sad for our humanity every day and maybe I am making too much into this but am I? I feel sad every time i see a 18 year old not being able to read or write his own language. I feel sad every time I see a young man disrespecting an elderly man on the streets,  When did respect for the elderly stop? What has happened in this young man’s life that he wouldn’t allow an elderly, frail, woman to get in front of him in line. Why did it anger him so much? This literally brings tears to my eyes.  

 The western civilization has taught us that slaughtering a cow for a certain ceremony is barbaric. BARBARIC...and because they have said so we see fit that we must abolish our way of life and blend in with their way of "civilization"... 

Our black youth serves the white man well--he represents, speaks for and defends the white man. The black youth has been  designed to influence white opinion on the black man. The white man has local tools, national tools of our young black youth,  because he “speaks well”, he doesn’t sound like others, the fool smiles and agrees with white man, the white man tells him that his culture is barbaric,  the fool smiles and agrees with the white man.

400 years later we see the real truth of how the white man brainwashed the black man, kept him ignorant of his true history, robbed him of his self-confidence. “The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him.” In our own country we have been relegated to second-class citizenship, because our youth has lost all respect.

Why not change all our surnames to "X"? Because we have little or no identity left.

A great man, Malcom X once said: " We must learn to become our own producers, manufacturers and traders; we must have industry of our own, to employ our own. The white man resists this because he wants to keep the black man under his thumb and jurisdiction in white society. He wants to keep the black man always dependent and begging--for jobs, food, clothes, shelter, education. The white man doesn't want to lose somebody to be supreme over. He wants to keep the black man where he can be watched and retarded. Mr. Muhammad teaches that as soon as we separate from the white man, we will learn that we can do without the white man just as he can do without us. The white man knows that once black men get off to themselves and learn they can do for themselves, the black man's full potential will explode and he will surpass the white man. 

We are a generation that buys the most expensive clothes and cars and eat the cheapest food. 

Never forget where you come from....