Having fairly recently come fro Zimbabwe, where there are huge issues of class, race, imperialism and Pan-Africanism, I am gobsmacked by the waste of time spent in this forum by discussions on motor cars and other trivia. There are major issues such as rural development, illegal evictions and education for which we need to find solutions -- and that is only in South Africa. There are further issues, hardly touched on, as to why, 15 years into democracy, has a South African President only now visited Angola, which provided bases for MK at a massive cost to the Angolan people? Why did COSATU try to block the Zimbabwean border in solidarity with the Anglo-American Axis? Why, when the South African struggle was assisted by neighbouring countries, do South Africans, more especially those who claim to be Marxists, want to eat alone? The only person who I have heard speak out publicly on these issues is President Jacob Zuma in the speech he made at last years MK Commemoration in Bloemfontein -- if ther are others -- I will be interested to hear more. Pan-Africanism is not for the PAC only. Most of all, I am horrified by the lack of kowledge on the Second Congo War, the biggest war since World War 2 in terms of the loss of human lives. But after all they were only Makwerekwere, and its far more important for South Africans to discuss whether or not a minister spent too much on a car.
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