Tuesday, August 24, 2010

South African Strikes Kill

So you should never, ever think about striking, Americans.

Just put your nose to the grindstone and serve the war machine.


"Massive strike could paralyze South Africa" by Associated Press | August 19, 2010

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Teachers left their classrooms and trials were postponed as hundreds of thousands of civil servants went on strike yesterday for higher wages across South Africa.

Officials at the South African Democratic Teachers Union, the biggest in the country’s public sector, said all of its 240,000 members left class early yesterday to attend meetings to discuss the strike....

South Africa’s public service strikes are often characterized by violent protests. A strike in 2007 lasted a month.

If I didn't know my Zionist and supremacist newspaper was so pro--civil rights I would swear they are racists.

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"Newborn is casualty of S. Africa strike" by Associated Press | August 20, 2010

JOHANNESBURG — A newborn died yesterday as he was being rushed from a rural government clinic shut down by South Africa’s civil service strike, an example of the costs of an action that has hit hospitals, schools, and courts across the country.

Yeah, it is THEIR FAULT!

Yup, you should just TAKE the SHITTY CRUMBS elites allow you and just be happy!!

I'm sorry, readers, but I am really getting sick of the s***-ass, agenda-pushing insults from my morning newspaper.

Mpho Gabane, health department spokesman in the eastern province of Mpumalanga, blamed the strike for the baby’s death....

The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, called for the government and workers to come together to end the strike quickly, saying people were suffering. Makgoba also called for hospital staff and other essential workers to return to work immediately.

“How do we look at our society and say, ‘Let not your hearts be troubled’ when patients needing high levels of care are without proper nursing staff and students are told they must provide for their own education?’’ he said in a statement.

Hey, societies let elites loot them all time; however, when average people want just a fraction of wealth and a decent -- not lavish, just decent -- life it is always how dare you let others down!

Ndivhuwo Mabaya, Defense Department spokesman, said army medical staff was deployed to several hospitals around Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal yesterday after the health minister requested assistance.

The Army was deployed?

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Is that why the issue suddenly disappeared from my Globe?

Related: In South Africa, media endangered

More than just them, Glob.

Update
: Violence erupts as Zuma orders police to crush national strike

Which just goes to show that all governments serve themselves and an elite class and not their people.

If any government in the world was to have had the basis for a good government it was the South Africans after all they endured -- and this is what has developed after two decades?