UDM youth vanguard says SA must stop dwelling on Zuma.

By Abongile Dumako

NPA  director,Shaun Abrahams announced on friday that Zuma will be prosecuted on charges of corruption,money laundering and racketeering.

The United Democratic Movement(UDM) youth vanguard says its time that SouthAfricans started focusing on building the country and stop dwelling on former president Jacob Zuma.The Gauteng chairperson Andile Jabavu said that the country should stop worring about Zuma now that he is going to be prosecuted.

Jabavu says"we are bringing the party to the people,however we need to emphasize the fact that we are no longer talking about Zuma here.we bringing the party to the people because Zuma is basically going to the court and be charged,so we are here to bring the party,we are no longer talking about Zuma.we talking about the party,people and service that they are entitled to".

I personally support the UDM and Jabavu that we should focus on improving our country and forget about Zuma ,because he is getting his punishment.

Source:sabcnews
Link:http//www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/author/dumako.

HOLOMISA REJECTS ATTEMPT TO LURE HIM TO THE ANEW.

By Nkululeko Nyembezi

The article is about United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa who has rejected the attempt by the African  National Congress  (ANC) to lure him back into the party.ANC deputy president David Mabuza has said he is considering approaching Holomisa and EDF leader, julius Malema to rejoin the ANC.

It is reported on the SABCnews that Holomisa says he and malema are comfortable with fighting corruption and they have changed the political outlook  inot the country. Holomisa has said that Mabuza is day dreaming.

"A big no,Holomisa is not about to surrender his liberty, I have been betting on awicket of anti corruption and calling for the improvement of checks and balances,now if you are going to say Eff and UDM  must go back to the ANC that means you are promoting a one party domiNancy, one party dominance in the past nine years we have seen it promote  corruption "

I fully support Holomisa on making a wise decision about not returning back to the  ANC .Am concerned by mabuza's idea of approaching the UDM  and the EFf to rejoin their party,why suddenly now.

Title:Holomisa rejects attempt to lure him to the ANC.

Source:Sabcnews

Link:http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/holomisa-rejects-attempt-lure-anc/

Madikizela-mandela intends to bring back makes to ANC

The article discusses the ANC  stalwart,WInnie Madikizela Mandela,who hopes to bring EFF leader Julius Malema back home to the ANC. Deputy president David Mabuza has also said that he is considering approaching Malema and USE leader Bantu Holomisa to request them to return to the ANC, saying that if they returned they could help the ruling party to govern the country  for along time.

Madikizela Mandela was seen on Saturday accompaning party president Cyril Ramaphosa on a walk about at Maponya mall in Soweto to engage South Africans to register  to voter.
She have said"The constitution  of our country is written in blood.The blood of our children,the blood of our father's and for that  remember as South Africans that  we dare not to mess it up.Please go and register to vote  so that we can take out the DA and we can take out all other parties and I know  one day I will bring back my boy Julius Malema,I will bring him home to the ANC".

I highly disagree with  Mabuza  and winnie madikizela  on their suggestion in approaching Malema and Holomisa into returning back in the ANZ. I am certain sure that bringing them back  especially Malema won't govern the country but create more drama. They should just let Malema rule his own party in peace because Julies is cover enough, he won'
 approvemail their proposal of coming back to the ANZ as he sees unhappiness in the ruling party.

Title:Madikizela Mandela intends to bring back Malema to ANC

Source:SABCNEWS

Link:http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/madikizela-mandela-intends-bring-back-malema-anc/

Voters mustn't give one party too much power

By Conway Nkumbuzo TUtani

This article discusses the worst of the MDC-Ts internecine Mayhem,which has even caused collateral damage outside the main opposition party itself,the party in its wisdom or lack therefore saw it fit to treat the nation to another orgy of violence  in Bulawayo at the weekend.It is stated that supporters of the  party's vice president,Thokozani Lupe,were left blooded  following  a mob attack by professed backers of Nelson Chamisa,who said in his words this  week"anointed successor"to the late MDC-T leader,Morgan Tsvangirai, who died last month.

The background to this chaos be a replication of this erudite observation:"As pointed  out by Putnam (1976),modern political selection fails under the control of local party organisations and other  organised political selectorates:party selectorates tend to select complacent and spectacular candidates,those with established name,image and reputation. This results in the negative selection of party hacks,local celebrities  and processional politicians especially lawyers,who combine  oratory skills with professional autonomy.In a nutshell one may say paradoxically contemporary  leader democracies  fail to develop a reliable system  of a selecting,grooming and protecting leaders,and this failure results in frequent  leadership  vacuums with all their disastorus consequences ".

"I did not say it, shoot the message,not the messenger "it is what exactly happened  in the MDC-T. This has gone according to the script with the rise of Chamisa.To me This shows that Chamisa is not necessarily the best,but that the selection of party"selectorates "ensured his rise;the system was loaded in his favour.This rampage shows that political violence hasn't been as one-sided as some opposition supporter and apologist academia would make it out to be.It has been proved that violence is as embedded and as pervasive  in the MDC-T as in zanu-pf and that party  might as well  boast that it matches zanu-pf in having "degrees in violence "as former president Robert Mugabe bragged when he was at the top of his game.

I believe that ,it is now up to voters  themselves  to rescue the situation  with the general election  booming.It would be much better if they could exercise what is called tactical voting, whereby it occurs with election with two or more candidates more strongly  than their sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome in order to prevent an undesirable outcome such as making one party too much powerful.

Source:NewsDay
https://www.newsday.co.zw/2018/03/voters-mustn't-give-one-party-too-much-power/

Lifelong rule by China's president Xi Jinping

China's annual parliament opened on Monday  with the expected show of unity,loyalty,and pomp despite concerns about how long president Xi Jinping may hold power.
The report stated that nearly about 3,000 handpicked delegates descended on the Great Hall of the people and a massive edifice flanking Tiananmen Square to display their absolute allegiance to the communist party and its leader.But the routine belied china's most monumental National people's Congress in years,and perhaps its most controversial.

The Chinese officials have proposed scrapping  two term limit for the country's president from the nation's constitution,paving the way for Xi to rule for decades.I believe that this could thrust the country into a new era of deepening repression and ideology or greater uncertainty,as the idea of one man rule,cast off on the late 1970s after decades of atrocities under Mao Tse-tung,returns to the fore.

An expert on Chinese politics at the school of Oriental and African studies in London said that:''You have a political system in China in which the party's legitimacy rests on its being able to deliver a better tomorrow than today,for its citizens''.''And that just grows so much harder with Xi Jinping narrowing the scope for internal policy debate.'' 

Premier Li Keqiang launched the session with a near two- hour reading of his annual state of the nation address,which offered a rosy summary of the last five years under Xi.He has acknowledged''formidable''challenges this year in issues such as financial risk and reducing pollution,but vowed China would ''rally even closer''around the party and the president.

Li predicted GDP would hit about 6.5% this year,keeping in line with last years target and making it one of the world's strongest.Chinese officials have said growth reached 6.9% last year.The government had also reported Monday that China's defense budget will grow by  8,1% this year to about $175 billion,up from 7% last year.I believe the course of Chinese politics will change for sure.

Title   :Lifelong rule by China's president Xi Jinping.

Source  :Los Angeles Times

link:www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-congress-20180305-story.htm

Secure elections,Protect our democracy.

Americans' ability to fairly choose our own leaders is fundamental to our democracy.Given what we known about Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election,we must do everything we can at both the federal and state levels to protect the security and integrity of our election systems before voters go to the polls this year.

While the senate intelligence committee continues investigating the full extent of Russia's interference in the 2016 election,American intelligence assessments  have already established that Russia hacked presidential campaign accounts,launched cyber attacks against at least 21 state election systems and attacked a U.S voting systems software company.Although there is no evidence that the Russian activity changed vote tallies on Election Day,these intrusions demonstrate a clear vulnerability that foreign hackers will try to exploit in upcoming election.

This is a wake-up call that we must heed going into upcoming elections.States needs to improve and modernize protections for our voting systems,voter registration data and ballots to prevent theft,manipulation and malicious computer hacking.



Title         :Secure elections,protect our democracy

Source    :  usnews

Link         ; https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2018-02-23/congress-must-act-to-upgrade-and-secure-our-voting-machines-before-midterms

Consent of the governed confers political legitimacy.

 Legitimacy the right and acceptance of an authorithy,usally a governing law or regime.Political legitimacy is considered a basic condition for governing,without which the government wiil suffer legislative deadlocks and collapse.In political systems where this is not the case,unpopular regimes survive because they considered legitimate by a small,influential elite.In chinese political philosophy,since the historical period of the Zhou Dynasty,the political legitimacy of a ruler and government was derived from the mandate of heaven,and unjust rulers who lost said mandate therefore lost the right to rule the people.


Max Weber had proposed that societies behave cyclically in governing themselves with different types of governmental legitimacy.That democracy was unnecessary for establishing legitimacy,a condition that can be established with codified laws,customs,and cultural principles,not by means of popular sufferage.He believed that a society might decide to revent from  the legitimate government of a rational legal authority to the charismatic government of a leader ;e.g the Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler.


Therefore the elected government should abide by the democratic principles in governing,and thus is legally accountable to its people in order to improve our country.


title     :Consent of the governed confers political legitimacy

Source:Wikipedia

    Link  :https://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Legitimacy_(political)