Topic: anc
ANC's proposed national health insurance (NHI) scheme
August 4, 2009 by Kaapstad
What I think of the ANC's proposed national health insurance (NHI) scheme is that it is a really bad idea. We do not have medical aid and are of those who would benefit from such scheme but then again I know what happens when something opens up to the public for free use. My dad pays an extraordinary large amount on medical aid so that he and my mother can have the best of care, if they had to charge even more on top of what he is already paying I am sure he would not be able to cope. Is it not bad enough that 40% of most hard working South African citizens salary goes to the tax man? Just because our government has misspent it's funds and have let the hospitals run into the ground they want to bleed those with money for more cash? Do they honestly think it would work?
I believe hospital cost are way to expensive but to take money from tax payers to fix that problem is not the solution. It will cost a person R5 000 to stay in the hospital for one day, not sleeping over just to use the operation ward and a recovery bed that's without doctors costs. When I had my baby 2 years ago the hospital bill came up to R14 000. I still had to pay the anesthetist, the gynecologist and the pediatrician each raging from R2 000 to R 5 000. Then I still had medical aid in the end I only had to pay in R6 000. I know this is a serious rip off just to have a baby.
But even knowing that and have experience the injustice of having to pay so much or go to a public hospital (which honestly I rather just not go at all and suffer, those places terrify me) I would not want the already over burdened people who are able to pay to pay more. They screwed up a perfectly good public health system now they want to mess up the private sector. That's just not right, if they want something why don't they just work for it? I can remember ten years ago our local hospital started showing how it's deteriorating, now no one wants to go there they would rather go all the way to Cape Town or struggle on their own. The local Medi-Clinic though has become like a five star hotel and charge the prices of one too.
I have no idea what the solution is to this but I do not think forcing people who are already paying major money for health care to pay more. The root must be found as to why it is so expensive and the public hospitals must be sorted out. I feel like the poor black people of South Africa has become like a swarm of locust who strip the wealth from one place and when it is in ruins move on to the next 'green place'.
So who wants to strike next? South Africa of strikes
This country is getting crazier by the day. If the crime situation is not bad enough we have almost everyone striking.
We have the way underpaid Doctors and Hospital strikes, those doctors really need a pay increase and better working conditions. I actually agree with them, although there' now no doctors in hospitals. Have you seen the recent pictures of hospitals? The look disgusting, blood on the floor and people streaming in with not enough doctors and nurses to help them.
Secondly we have the SABC strike that I thinks starts on Wednesday, if that will go ahead we can be sure there will be some interruptions, maybe not but those people are owed money, lots of it. I guess the SABC is a waste of everyone's money. Those that pay the license and those that offer their programs and services to the SABC. The only interesting thing about the SABC was 7delaan and that has now also turned into a load of crap.
Remember last week when they "robbed" the place and shot that one woman? Well what are the odds of white robbers? No seriously look at the stats and you will see, no white robbers. If you disagree, name two.
The news on SABC is the mouthpiece of the ANC, you can trust that news less than a tiger with saw paw on steroids.
Then we have the brilliant soccer stadium workers that are striking. They started today and want a big increase before they start working again.
Now there's not only 10 or 20 people working on these stadiums, think about 70-80 000.
Now that's a lot of people. If this indefinite strike lasts to long the stadiums might not be finished on time which is december.
I just wonder who's about to strike next
What is wrong with the ANC supporters?
What is wrong with the ANC supporters? They are constantly crying about injustice and freedom for the people when they are stifling others. Since they have kicked Mbeke out of office I have noticed there is something very wrong with ANC supporters. It is almost as if they believe they are the only ones in the country who has rights. For example this whole Helen Zille thing, they are attacking a woman for criticizing the president who is currently Jakub Zuma, they want her fired. Imagine they did this in other countries the parliaments would be empty, that is what politics is about criticizing each other to improve the country. This is the whole point of having a democracy is that we have the freedom to say when we do not agree with those in power. Jakob Zuma is just a man, a very faulty man at that, he may have become president but he is there to serve us as the people of the country we are not there to serve him like in a kingdom. The supporters of Zuma is going to far, they have elevated the man to a status that should not be allowed in such a vulnerable new democratic country such as South Africa. It can become dangerous if these people are left to threaten and disrupt other peoples lives because Zuma has been criticized. Even when Mandela was president his supporters did not act in such a way. I repeat there is something very wrong with the way these people bully the rest of the country to have their way.
I like Helen Zille though I don't always agree with her I know she is a good woman trying to help a country that needs it. She is far from a racist and these men protesting against her are bigger racist because they call her a white little girl, actually that makes them chauvinist and racist. And the race card has been played to boredom. I was 6 years old when apartheid ended I personally am not racist and have never been racist but those who say us as white people should except defeat? Defeat of what precisely? Clear this up; are we in a war I was not aware of? And why should I except being defeated when I have not done anything to deserve such an remark. It is like sending a child to prison when the parents steels, that would make no sense. Just like these ANC supporters who go to rallies and protest and say all these dumb racist stuff. Making as if they are owed everything this poor me mentality and this dangerous belief that anyone who does not agree should be fired or harmed. If the leadership of the ANC don't start correcting their zealous supporters, they will have a bigger problem than Xenophobia one of these days.
The ANC is spitefull and undemocratic
Just because they let a election actually take place, which by the way is a surprise if you look just how far they have destroyed this once booming country does not mean the ANC is totally democratic.
The Western Cape is currently and was voted DA. So this now DA led Western Cape has to basically fight the ANC to provide basic services and things that normally would be easy is becoming much more harder than it would and could of been.
The people that voted ANC that's from the Western Cape will now somehow try to make the Western Cape ungovernable, this is both dumb and plain stupid.
Why cant the ANC just accept defeat and move on?
Living in South Africa with Zuma as president
Tonight for the second time I have read an article about Jacob Zuma written by a non South African. I am still in shock. Living in South Africa you get used to how things work. Seeing idiots run the country so when someone spells it out so clearly what mess is really running the show.It's like this feeling of people see outside what is going on, I am not a racist for thinking badly of our 'leaders'. Knowing everything I know about what could happen at any moment and having to live in fear for my children's safety on a daily basis has made me numb to it all. At some point you just have to go on with living day to day. My only goal has become to keep my children safe and to think of a way out of this. I have left a comment after the post which I copied, here it is if you want to read it.
Every person I know has voted and not one of them for the ANC. Fortunately that means the Western Cape is in safe hands sort of, there is only so much the DA can do. I despair for the country I once knew and which is long gone. You have to hawk over your children constantly and my husband won't let me drive on my own. Living in fear that the black population will decide they want your house and they don't care if you have to die to get it. Both my brothers are in other countries but I cannot leave because my husband and children have only South African passports. It has turned into a waiting game, when will we become another Zimbabwe??
After seeing how upset the English was I thought I had to let them know we know what is going on. I brought up Zimbabwe, my mother was born in Zimbabwe she lived there until she was 10, I think. My great grandfather bought a farm there, he grew up in District 6 somewhere, not from a 'mighty' farm heritage he worked for every cent he ever owned. His heritage was stolen by ignorant people who thought it was just another rich white farmer. My mothers cousin who ran the farm was held hostage for 3 days in the farmhouse toilet with his wife and 2 children. The people who suffered the most was the farmhands who protected them, most was beaten and their houses burnt. I have no desire to wake up to that particular nightmare. It frightens me to think that it could happen. I don't want to seem unpatriotic, I love South Africa but it is not the same place anymore and we should all face it.
If you want to read the article I read click here
ANC might take two thirds majority
The ANC might take a two third majority in this year's election as the votes are almost finished counted.
That means we can expected what we have basically seen the past 15 years.
The ANC will probably change laws that will affect freedom of speech and media freedom but that's not confirmed yet. We can expect more BEE and AA and less jobs for white people.
We can also expect a heavy Zulu way of things and a more tribal direction of governance.
Jesse Duarte doesnt have a clue
Recently the ANC held debate on twitter, that turned out to be more of a promotion for the ANC since Jesse Duarte who was said to run the debate only answered the easiest questions while during the Q and A her followers nearly doubled.
The ANC lies to people and they will lie to people to get in to positions of power. The ANC knows how to fool people.
Most people that leave the country leave the country because of three things namely:
Work, Crime and the ANC.
Jesse Duarte said "It shows you who leaves the country: all the right-wingers". She said this after hearing that the ANC lost by far when counting overseas votes.
Not only have the ANC put any other party members in a hard spot to find jobs because government jobs are all taken by ANC only members, but they have also made it clear that they have "defeated" the white minority in their own words.
The ANC hates white people, its no wonder they all leave, and then its also no wonder that she would call them "right-wingers" because anyone that does not agree with the ANC is either a right winger or a anti revolutionary, but who other than those that believe they should stick with the ANC because of what Mandela did would vote for the ANC.
It is said that while Mugabe's hooligans had to eat grass because there were no food, they still voted for him because they believe they should stick with the party that got them out from where they were, even though this party has now become a weapon for a dictating maniac.
ANC holding election winning celebration
The ANC is currently holding a election winning celebration at Luthuli House , the headquarters of the African National Congress.
The ANC is far ahead in the 4 democratic South African elections with a a 2 3rds marjority.
This may still change as only 1 third of votes have been counted thus far.
ANC needs 3% for a 2 3rds majority
The ANC currently needs 3% extra to have that 2 3rds majority that they need to ammend the constitution without hinderances.
But this is current results, when final results have been counted and acknowledged this could very well change.
ANC takes 86% of votes in Mpumalanga so far
ANC takes 86 percent of votes so far in the general election in the province of Mpumalanga