Thanks Juju for the wakeup call: iLIVE

28 October 2011 - 12:40 By Dr. Chwayita Ongama Yongama Yako by email
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ANCYL president Julius Malema gestures among militants, some wearing t-shirts showing Libyan late leader Moamer Kadhafi, on October 27, 2011. Pic ALEXANDER JOE
ANCYL president Julius Malema gestures among militants, some wearing t-shirts showing Libyan late leader Moamer Kadhafi, on October 27, 2011. Pic ALEXANDER JOE
Image: AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER JOE

Its such a cliché that some individuals would ululate and celebrate the the missionaries whereas we all know their purpose was to make the African submit to their authority and rid them of their culture and introduce a different perspective of the Christian ethos that was to be submissive and wait for miracles.

Whereas the dominant Christian philosophy teaches resilience, hard work, perseverance and  faith.

We might congratulate the missionaries that built schools; prepared food and brought clothes but i doubt that they ever taught Africans how to make clothes, the quantum physics of building science, the recipes of different meals for mass production and trade...how to develop vaccines and medicine....infact i still have to hear of any missionary that sent massive bright African students to study in international well renowned Universities or allowed their children to fall in love with African kids.

We have always been taught to be servants and to understand how the European thinks and our culture is seen as rudimentary and primitive.

Then comes Juju with his bling and lifestyle and we pay attention to him. Rightly so i believe if he acted like any ordinary present leader we wouldn’t take another look at him.

As years progressed he got vocal and said all the untoward things like a noisy kid in class who liked all the attention. But one day through all the midst and confusion about his intellect he sparked economic revolution.

The antidote to the corrupt apartheid system that the ANC government was entangled in and despite several programmes of RDP, GEAR it couldn’t untangle.

So many young minds have been inspired by his utterances and revolutionary thinking. Not in the past 17 years has someone reminded us that the ANC government adopted the apartheid economic system and that it is not working.

The sugar coating of BEE and transformation gimmicks just do not work.

We need Professors who will map out correct blueprint for our country; universities that lead in research and development of our country;

Schools that will make education fun and innovative not places of gang violence ; legal system that will eradicate all the apartheid business philosophies; 

Media that will confront the entrenched apartheid economic system of painting a black man violent and brutal and inform us on ways of doing business as we had enough of violence and recent despicable pictures embracing necrophilia, pornography,

pedophiles and kleptomaniacs (ever wondered why the naked people are not shown running across the field for publicity, the more we show these thugs and maniacs in our screen we publicise them and give them the attention they so long seek);

parliament that will not romance the divide between rich and poor, black and white and personal grudges; entrepreneurs that will not ride on the wave of the apartheid companies but create new conglomerates that will benefit the whole of South Africa and the continent; 

trade unions that will not be vocal when they march but will also celebrate when they go to a conference of research and development and come out with innovative ways of opening new business forums that will be run by their former floor managers and stewards.

We need mass production of geologists, mining engineers that will venture into new mining businesses that will develop communities with mine fields; we need healthcare workers that will be at the forefront of preventative medicine;

Thanks Juju for the wakeup call...your bravery has inspired us...in a good way...

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