Vuyiswa Tulelo
ANYCL general secretary Vuyiswa Tulelo has played the race card against Democratic Alliance leader and Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille for saying that South Africa faces becoming a “failed state” should the ANC win a two-thirds majority in upcoming general elections.
“The choice in this election is very simply this: will South Africa become a successful democracy or will we end up a failed state?,” Zille asked reporters during the final leg of campaigning Monday. “And if we give Zuma and the ANC a two-thirds majority we are immensely increasing the likelihood of the downward spiral.”
“It does prove again to the population of South Africa that Miss Helen Zille remains an absolute racist to the core,” whined Tulelo in response. “The city that she is in charge of has not moved a single inch up in the lives of African people.”
Helen Zille
Zille, a self-confessed anti-racist liberal who campaigned against Apartheid and exposed the death of Steven Biko in the 1970′s, has actually done a lot to tackle the issues that affect Black South Africans in Cape Town most directly – namely crime, unemployment and housing. As Cape Town mayor, Zille has incread gross geographic product (GGP) by over 12% – from R116.6 billion in 2005 under the ANC, to R130.77 billion in 2007. During this time unemployment also declined from 20.7% to 17.9%. Zille also cut Cape Town’s debt by nearly R1 billion, which allowed capital for service delivery to be increased by 15%. Zille has also cut crime in Cape Town by nearly 90% during her tenure. Zille has also allowed housing delivery to be increased from 3000 units per annum under the ANC, to 7000 units per annum since 2006, the year Zille took over as mayor.
However, Tulelo can only focus on her own negative racism that automatically targets anyone with white skin as being “racist.” “What is obvious about saying that when the ANC is going to take charge, South Africa is going to become a failed state? It tells you that the black man can never rule,” Tulelo whined. “The thinking of this person says to you the only person who has got the capacity and ability and opportunity to rule is the white person.”
Despite stiff competition from the DA and newly-formed COPE, Tuleo believes that the ANC will increase its parliamentary majority to more than two-thirds. “[The voters] have come to the appreciation that the leadership of the ANC as currently in office not only pays lip service to their issues, but it actually feels their pain. So, people have just decided that whatever happens, they will defend the ANC and they will ensure that it gets more than the two thirds majority,” she said.
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Racist! How dare she make a comment like that!
The whites played the race card against us for all those years of the racist apartheid regime, then why can’t we use it too? Turn around is fair play. We learned from the masters. They starved us and beat us and tortured us. They should be grateful that all we are doing is this pittance.
Vuyiswa is also one of the darkies falling into the age old trap of being racist herself by branding a statement which has nothing to do with race as racist.
But of course she is concerned that the daily supply of "pap en vleis" (meat and porridge) will run dry when the gravy train has derailed. She sure doesn't look like one of the "below-the-poverty-line" darkies.
I have a child and i will not teach him to be a racist because we are not breaking the chain of racism we are passing it on. My son will decide for himself whom is superior and whom is inferior.
All that worries me that Vuyiswa is speaking of revenge and on that topic . De larey said to the english to come and negotiate but they didn`t want to listen and he warned them ” when i bite i wont let go ” and you know what they begged him eventually to let go.
I was really angered by what I read in this rather subjective piece and by the mindless comments that followed. I wanted to write a scathing comment to rebuff the general stupidity but decided not to lower myself to the level of this piece and its comment, as a non-white South African. There is nothing to be proud of if you’re a white liberal or a white racist. In the words of the Great Steve Biko:
“White liberals vacillate between the black world of oppression and the white world of privilege verbalising all the complaints of the blacks beautifully while skilfully extracting what suits them from the exclusionary pool of white privilege…. True to their image, the white liberals always knew what was good for the blacks and told them so”
With regards Helen ZIlle this still rings true.
Its acceptable for Malema to rant Hate Speech and call Zille foul names. To sing and chant repeatedly "Kill the Farmer" every time he appears in public at Tertiary Institutions.
Our mini-Mugabe and future President is allowed to be ANTI-WHITE as that is not racist. Whites are now known as non-black, non-African.
From Food exporter, we now import food – as farms handed free to black people – lie derelict. They were productive and generated foreign exchange.
Silent genocide is occurring with ANC silence calling it "mere crime."
Legal Firearms have been hand in to SAPS. Now only the criminals are armed and murder and rape with impunity.
The conviction rate is in single digits.
The poor and destitute are ROBBED blind by their Liberators who speed by with long convoys and sirens blaring. Obscene wealth is flaunted.
Health Dept is bankrupt – no medicines at many hospitals.
Patients sent home untreated. Public Hospitals filthy and neglected.
Sewage from broken pipes spilling into black townships.
Public Schools held hostage by Trade Union, under qualified teachers who tend to rape students for grades.
Power Utility collapsing.
Water purification works collapsing with raw sewage pouring into rivers and dams.
Townships burning 10/3/2010 from uprisings against lack of service delivery. Resident protesters shot with rubber bullets.
Roads consist of potholes and deep dongas.
To get anywhere in RSA the black person has to "be connected to an ANC cadre." Whites do it all on their own without the State.
Untrained, obese policemen who also rape women in cells and wherever they can. There are several cases in court.
The list goes on and on.
RSA pride –
we have the best 8 stadiums in the world that will feed, house, heal and educate the masses. They had better as billions of taxpayers money was used to deprive the poor so that ANC can brag on the world stage.
2 million taxpayers support 42 million citizens with 25% unemployment and a high illiteracy rate. 25 % are under 25 years of age.
The highest crime rate, murder rate in the world.
The highest HIV infection in the world.
Highest child and geriatric rape statistics.
Let us brag about that too.
SA IS ALREADY A FAILED STATE after only 15 years of LIBERATION !
If all these facts are racist – I am one !
I an not a settler – my ancestors arrived here after 1650+ with no black people in the south.
Update 11/3 – ANC declares it is allowed for Julius Malema – Vuyiswa’s President to sing “KILL THE BOER RAPISTS” over and over, ad nauseum, at his student gathering.
6 BOERE were killed in his Province in February. 4000 since 2000.
What will the Black citizens eat when farms stop producing ?
(Boere are farmers.) Black farms lie derelict and they want more land !
Is it also right for whiteys to sing “KILL THE BLACK RAPISTS ?”
ANC finds it okay – let us see what the Courts have to say as Malema is taken to court by Afrikaners.
This foul mouthed weasel who has security guards at expense of taxpayers for R30 million Rands (How many houses can be built ?) is getting away with MURDER and it is condoned by the ANC Ruling Government.
When will SA learn, that being non-racists asks something from both sides. Who says he will be non-racists once the others are, will always be a racist. And who finds racism in any comment by the opposition is a racist himself.