Nkandla was a bargain! (Let's just be grateful there were minimal protests about it)

Evening all,

Blade Nzimande announced on Wednesday that the price tag associated with the #FeesMustFall protests have reached an astounding R460 million Rand. To put that into perspective, old Jacob could have built two Nkandlas for the same price! Now don't get me wrong, I have absolutely no problem with student protests, which have a long history of changing the world for the better, (just look at the protests in the America during the sixties). What I DO have a problem with is the rampant violence and destruction by the protestors. As far as I'm concerned, the idiots that are causing damage should be locked up and made to contribute to the restorations required, a percentage of future earnings to be taken, for the rest of their lives if necessary.

In an update to the Jesus Dome saga, there are reports about scammers creating false social networking adverts to raise money to help rebuild the Dome, something that the church leadership is less than happy about. Apparently the church wants exclusive rights to people's wallets, saying that they never solicit funds using social media, and if anyone wishes to donate money that they should contact the church directly. Not funny when the shoe is on the other foot I suppose, (though one church official was quoted as saying that the scammers should go to their church, perhaps he's wanting to recoup some of their losses?)

This leads me to wonder why government lets itself be scammed by religious institutions, just look at some of the mega churches or some of the bigger mosques, surely if they can afford to build something that has capacity for thousands of people they can afford to be taxed on it? As far as I'm concerned we need to remove "Religion, Belief or Philosophy" from the list of Public benefit activities, I'd love to hear how any of those things are of benefit to the general public.

In good news, the former professional tennis player, Bob Hewitt's appeal against his six-year jail sentence has been dismissed by the Supreme Court of Appeals in Bloemfontein. I will say that the hugely troubling thing about that is the fact that the sick fucker only got 6 years for two counts of rape and one of sexual assault, all on minors. Also troubling was the fact that the judge considered Hewitt's age, health as well as the length that had passed since the crimes were committed when considering sentencing.  Personally I feel that none of these things should play any contributing factors when determining the term of a prison sentence. six years for ruining three (that we know about) women's lives? Doos should have had his cock chopped off.

The comedy clip comes from George Carlin again, a brilliant piece from him about the best bullshit story ever, religion:



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G