Samwu strike

DEFIANT: The week long SAMWU strike in Johannesburg CBD, 15 April 2010.

Photo: Nkosana Lekotjolo

NATURE AWESOME

LIKE A PAINTING: Sundown in Johannesburg resembling the artist's painting.

PHOTO: Nkosana Lekotjolo

Serious Leadership

I put my hat off for the new Transport Minister S'bu Ndebele after he bravely announced today that he would be returning the luxury Mercedes Benz and two heads of cattle he had received as a gift.

Ndebele decided to return gifts despite President Jacob Zuma and his party, reportedly told him that he can keep them.

For me, Ndebele demonstrated the kind of leadership that the country is so in dire need of ,especially when one looks at how "corrupt' some of leaders are.

We live in the times where leaders are followed by scandals of fraud, corruption and accepting bribes and even refusing to return the gifts they have receivced under the cloud of "kick backs' and corruption.

Photo: David Harrison, M&G.

A CLOUD HANGS OVER IT

HANGING ON: A white cloud hangs over
the Joburg landmark - the Ponte Building in Hillbrow.
Photo: Nkosana Lekotjolo.

New Man In The White House

Photo: AP

Fire Ball...

A GLANCE: The sun is about to bury its head before sundown in Johannesburg. Photo: Nkosana Lekotjolo.

Lekota's National Convetion Is Just What We Need

In a democracy like ours, perhaps the former Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota's National Convention is what we need at the moment in the current political climate.

The ANC splinter group which comprise of other heavyweights such as the former Gauteng Premiere Mbhazima Shilowa, the former Defence deputy Mluleki George, the axed Cosatu President Willy Madisha and others - could just be the right alternative voice the country has been waiting for.

If the new political party is to be formed by the ANC splinter group is anything to go by, this should be seen as good news for the sake of our democracy. The new political party (in waiting) - a breakaway ANC faction would provide real opposition in the country.

Perhaps what we are seeing within the ANC as far as the split within the ruling party is concerned, is that the one party democracy that has dominated our democratic dispensation was not working and that the ANC didn't have any credible opposition at all.

Maybe this proves the theory that despite many opposition political parties that exist in the country, only the ANC splinter groupd could give an alternative voice. Photo: The Times