ANC vs DA

Hello ladies and gentlemen. I invite you the the one, the only, 'Political Party Face Off!' presented to you by yours truly, Phemelo Dibodu. Who is your money on? Is it he ANC; the liberator of the opressed, the breeding ground of revolutionaries, the peoples champ? against. The Party vowing to reduce poverty, improve service delivery, and do everything the ANC is struggling to accomplish.

Ok, on a serious note is the competition between the ANC and DA neccessary, both parties are trying to expose each others inadequate service delivery with regards to the toilets Saga.Their campaign budgets run into the millions. Their mandate seems to revolve around doing better than the other wether it be service delivery or just winning votes. Would it not be more beneficial for the country, if the best minds from the DA and ANC where put together to come up with ways of improving the country. In the famous words of Mr king "Why can't we all just get along."

• Since the ANC came into power unemployment in 1994 26 percent/2012 23,6 percent
• Murder rate per 100 people in 1994 66.9/ 2012 39.1
• Life expectancy at birth in 1996 61.4 years / 2012 49.3 years
• Children in secondary education 1994 58 percent/ 2012 72 percent

Helen Zille the leader of the DA party



Jacob Zuma the president of the ANC and South Africa



         

Piracy vs Creating a Brand

Piracy isn't going anywhere

Guys we all know somebody who's commited piracy. We've walked by somebody who was selling pirated meterial, as if it was normal, because deep down inside we believe it's ok. None of us have the guts to go up to a guy selling pirated DVD's and tell them, "Hey dude  that's wrong put those away or I'll call the cops"  first of all we are too scared to, what if he's a hardend criminal or he can kick your but, second of all we make it right in our minds "the musician will make up the money through concerts or the movie star is already famous, this guy selling this merchandise is probably undeducated, poor and this is his only choice aside from robbing people..." and come on lets face it would you rather be robbed at knife piont or be offered a bootleg video or album?

Now my suggestion is that the govournment do the right thing and turn these bootleggers into official salespersons of the album just like in a concert you get normal tickets and then you get golden tickets you also get the normal CD's that will be sold at Black market prices( R5-R20) and the golden album that will be sold at the store prices(R100-R200) this way we rebrand piracy and everybody wins.

campaigns can never stop piracy saying "buy original stuff" and getting a celebrity to support that message won't make the problem go away.

Top Ten Most Pirated Albums

1. Watch the Throne-Kanye West and Jay-Z

2. The Carter 4-lil wayne

3. 21-Adele

4. Where Them Girls At-David Guetta

5. Party Rockers- LMFAO

Are We The Hero's




Che Gauvara the revolutionary

 Where are our leaders?

The 21st century has come with a lot of technological advancements, the boom of social media a lot of cool stuff. I wonder, whether or not our leaders are up to standerd.The standerd set by leaders who in my opinion where willing to die fo what they believe . Self-less leaders who cared about others, more than they did themselves.Leaders of the previous generations.

When I look at a leader like Jacob Zuma (A Leader and a breader, a term affectionately coined by Zapiro) or even Thabo Mbeki can we compare their impact to that of Mandela? Can we compare the impact of Barak Obama to Martin Luther king? I would say, in my narrow minded view, Martin Luther King did more for humanity as a preacher than any president has done in their capacity.  It seems that as a society we have dropped our standards, do we have Leaders who inspire like Ghandi who organised protests by peasants and farmers to oppose British domination. Che Gauvara who fought against American imperialism in Cuba and stood up for what he believed in. Mother Teresa who dedicated her life to helping the outcast of Culcutta, India.



The Black American president



Martin Luther king giving a lecture
26 March 1964



We still have problems and challenges so why aren't there people standing up and saying no thats wrong! I believe the 21st century leaders are not inspiring the youth. They are not trying to work towards enriching humanity but themselves. Leaders used to be people who practised what they preach now it goes down to who can make the best speech. who can we look to in our lifetime as an example for our generation? Or maybe the question is do we need a hero or are we the heros!


These will be my parting words.Mandela the face of the new South Africa. Ghandi opposed British dominance. Che fought American Imperialism,what will you stand for? -Phemelo Dibodu-

Is it too late for South Africa ?

Is it too late for South Africa? Recently a gangrape video of a 17 year old girl went viral on the internet, bear in mind for this video to have gone viral it means that a lot of people had to have watched it and enjoyed it so much so that it became popular.That's what needs to happen for a video to go viral.

• According to the world press view during the 2011 year 1,2 million people where raped everyday of this number sixty of them where children
• Janine Rowly of the organisation woman against rape (WAR) says that "A woman in South Africa gets raped every 9 to 23 seconds
• South Africa is said to have twelve times as many rapes as America whic is second on the list of counties with the highest rape cases making us the leading country when it comes to raping woman

Which brings me back to my question is it too late for us, is crime, rape and corruption so much a part of our culture that we should legalise it and make it a national sport? If not what can we do, bring back the death penalty, enlist more policemen, mob justice what? South Africa is often said to be a beautiful country but if we don't stand together it wont be, I don't want to live in a country where my child can get raped and everyone is fine with it. We must stand together and find salutions in our lifetime lets not let the woman and children who've suffered  thus far to have suffered in vein.Often words of wisdom or warning fall on deaf ears until it's late let our generation not fall into that trap.

Are Black People Losing Their Culture?

Are Black People Losing Their Culture?

What are we afraid of

Is it possible that one day we could wake up and the South African culture has dissapeared, that we've forgotten our music, no longer speak our language, don't practice our traditions and don't even know the meaning of our names? Is it a worldwide phenomenon that with globalisation caltures that are not depicted and promoted on  television, in movies and through social media die out?If this is true what's the big deal? So what, we become westernized, Americanized isn't that what being civilized is all about?

The South African Culture

what do we even mean by losing our culture. I still respect my mother and father, my elders. I speak Setswana when I'm at home.I might not know our traditional dances and songs but what's the harm in that, does knowing how to dance and sing guarentee me a job, or will it make me a better husband, how does knowing any cultural rituals help me become a better human being. Don't get me wrong I'm proud to be black, to be Tswana not really to be South African because I don't know what that means yet, but apart from sentimental value what is the point of a culture.
Disadvantages of Globalisation

• A lose of calture in poorer less competitive countries
• difficulty for 3rd world countries to compete
• An identity crisis is created in the youth
• The braindrain as people immegrate in search of new jobs

Human Trafficking

Human Traficking

Byproduct or Symptom

Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise targeting vulnerable people for labour and sexual exploitation.My only question is is human trafficking inevitable, is it a byproduct of a capatilist economy where money will come first ahead of human dignity and moral values or can it be stopped through effective policing?

The Victims
People that migrate to and fro internationaly or locally are vulnerable to social or political pressures or crises. In order to seek for better life opportunities, they are willing to be smuggled across borders and suddenly find themselves in a trafficking network Time and time again its poor people that are victims often from rural villages they are lured into these situations through the promises of better jojs and a better life, the incentive for financial security often outweights their safety and well-being.

• There 2.5 million people being trafficked every year around the world 80% are woman and 50% are children, these statistics aren't always reliable due to the nature of the problem. 
• Every year 50,000 woman and children are brought to the United States to work as slaves.
• The average price for individual slaves is less than that of a  cell phone,anything from R100 to R500.
• Every year more than 1 million children are exploited in the global commercial sex trade.
• After drug dealing human trafficking is tied with the illegal arms trade as the second largest criminal industry in the world, and it is the fastest growing.
• Human Trafficking is estimated to be a seven billion dollar anuall businuss.

Conclusion
With these statistics I believe that Human trafficking much like drug trafficking brings in too much money into economies all over the world for it to be eradicated, although people in power might say it is wrong I believe deep down the are for it, due to its economic benefits, I stand to be corrected but modern slavery is frowned upon but either than that little else is done.



Racism is The Future

South Africa and Racism

Immanual Kant has been quoted as saying: " Humanity  is at it's greatest perfection in the white race." and that  "The yellow indians do have meagre talent, the negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people."

"Blacks are more likely to be ill treated on race grounds, but blacks are more likely to treat other blacks worse than they would treat people of other races." Sifiso Falala, Chief executive of plus 94.

The issue of race is South Africa is one that I would describe as a blessed curse, throught our tragedy we have salvaged a sense of humanity.With soo many defferences between people race seems to be the difference we identify to cuase the greatest conflict. to a certain extent it's understandable, gender can be seen to compliment the other we have different genders in order to procreate, homosexuallity is treated with hostility because it's not understood. Race to a similar extent is not understood no one can explain to this day why we are racially different. and to theorise about this without questioning our motives can be dangerous. Darwin once said: "...at some future period, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world." what where these savage races he was talking about, what would happen to the many people who would read his books, what conclusions would they develop.
Recently a Right-wing racist group Afrikaner Bloed won a first prize at a World Press Photo 2012 multimedia contest for showing pictures fof a training camp of young teenage boys. These pictures where shown to Dutch photographers Elles Van Gelder and IIvy Njioiktjien. The pictures showed boys being taught to hate the idea of a new South Africa, of a multiracial country and to not see themselves as South African citizins. I just don't feel comfortable knowing we can be soo casual about such a potentially destructive idea. Adolf Hitler was seen as an idiot he wasn't taken seriously until he rose to power, no-one would of been able to fathom what his plans where for the jewish people, we cannot wait until extremism and murderous ideology is killing millions before we act we must fight these ideologies before they become deadly.