Fees must free #feesmustfall

It has been long and now I am back blogging. What to fry is frying the #feesmustfall movement in this post. The campaign has been going on now for a while now and it has perturbed the institutions whose students have been striking. 

One of my friends has really been pissed a lot about this crusade of students about the fees movement and I guess she is right to be frustrated that her attended institution went in an intolerable state of violence where students confronted policemen and threw stones on them. Universities unrest as news called and identified it. 

we already experienced the first wave of university Sturm und Drang during the dying 2015 months of October and November; that prompted the non-increased fee last year as students made quite some noise and started going in protesting mode just before exams. And similarly, it seems that the agitated gas for free education often boils close to the turn of the year. Exams time 2015 and now it is nearly exams time for the academic year 2016.

Historians, and especially those who have looping eyes in politics will tell that the #feesmustfall protest could be foreseen and avoided, had the ANC not done empty promises for free everything and anything in the country in 1994 when the party entered in power as ruling party. Promises, if that not all politicians centred campaign strategy. Unfortunately, we took their word for the truth and here we are years later, The ANC has still not delivered free education and they are still the one in power. 

I pretty much distance myself from politics but however I analyse things, there is always a politician somewhere "chessing around" with the people as if we were pawns. There is a big manipulation in the #feesmustfall movement someone told me. And it is true that it is very easy to toy around with students that are frustrated because they can access education only at high cost.

A recent argumentation to the #feesmustfall dissipation is to privatise the public institutions. Whichever ways, privatisation is never really the solution. It is a coup that will shut students down and make access to tertiary education even more costly and expensive; as for private owner, it is all about the money. People who will invest their money would like to have a return on investment.

It is also to be understood, beyond #plasticANCpromises then, that freed education from public institutions comes with undesirable consequences mainly poor servicing. Anything that any government does for free comes perceptually and actually in a lower degree of accomplishment. That probably foreseeable situation would prompt the development of private tertiary institutions where parents would have value for their money when sending their kids to study there.

Can free education be attained? If millions can be spent on a swimming pool and on condoms, calculations can be done in a way to ease the burden of financially underprivileged students and parents.
This is a double edge sword that needs a lot of attention and understanding. It will be strange to have spent the whole year up to this point and not finish the year some weeks away. 

Accept it and then work on it

So she weighs 100 Kg, she does not even weigh 100 Kg; but she cannot feel herself. She thinks she is Fat!!!  She can even not stand herself, she feels disgusted when she sees her body in a mirror. "I want to vomit" she often mumbles. 

Why did it get there? What happened to her?

Fat people are very often bullied, looked down at and most of the time discriminated nearly worldwide. While some in some countries being fat means being healthy. With today advancements in medicine, people who are overweighted are more inclined in some diseases and the fact is known. This statement may sound controversial to some but it is the bitter pill that heals. 

Why do people become fat? Because they have a different metabolism that works that way, because they eat a lot and simply because they are like that. We should not stigmatise people because of the way they look. We often do not embrace what we do not like or what does not meet our views and opinions and that is sad. In doing so, we make other people feel bad in their skins and beings.

I can recall that a lot of people do not deliberately decide to become big and at some point, it even impedes them and they become impotent and completely dependable on other people. A lot of people find emotional refuge in foods because they lacked and missed that while growing up. The parents were never home, or always fighting, never finding time for them and they find their consolation in food. 

Unfortunately, consumerism that offers, ofthen judges as well. It compels you to buy and criticizes the consequences saying that "you are too fat". 

I do not condemn those who say to other people that they are fat. Yes, they are, and they do know it. No one needs to repeat it to them and make them feel ashamed of who they are. 

I came to understand that with a lot of people who are largely of a bigger proportion of weight, the centre issue is the ability to accept how they are and how they look. I am not in their skins and I can only guess that it is not easy at all, as well as very frustrating. 

True, being fat is in the physical condition but stigmatization affects the emotional condition. A lot of people have difficulty reconciling those two. you cannot work on something you deny. 

Accept it and work on it. 

I am afraid of going to USA

I want to go to the USA, live the American dream but I am black. This sentence can actually become the topic to carve so many essays now. News across TVs' show things in an obliterated way. Like the deceased mother's, I haven't watched the video and I will probably never watch because it pains me to see someone dying. I couldn't even start imagining his daughter fear at the sound of the gunshot going in her father chest. I, nevertheless, saw one picture to try redesigning the environment in which that shooting happened. 

I guess Castile was pulled over, he was indeed. The engine was probably still on and he was wearing his seatbelt. That detail only should send the policeman that shot him behind bars for several years. 

I am black and I intended for this page to remain satirical and fun but it doesn't feel right to pass this and keep on writing about other things. #blacklivesmatter #.

Yes, black, rather human lives matter and it matters the most. Is this a new form of injustice or what!!! I reckon that a policeman should use his gun in case of life threatening situation. Castile had his seatbelt on he could not be a threat, he had a license to carry. It looks like I am learning so much about US law just watching and reading about black people being shot regardless. 

It simply seems like policemen are handed gun and told be afraid of any black people, especially those trying to reach for their driver licences, their guns are probably hidden in their wallets as well. Policemen in the USA are becoming terrorist, they are using terror to prove strength; they are using terror to put down black; they are using terror because they are terrified; they are using terror because they can't comprehend their own fears. 

A country with the very high profile of terrorism is typically characterised by bombing, random shooting and so on... I don't know what the American dream means. I just feel like I am afraid of going to the USA. 

virginity vs marriage vs your opinions

So it is a stigma, the poor lady cannot prove otherwise that she was untouched before she marries you. Guys, I am a man too and probably we have learnt, read or heard somewhere that we need to get married to a woman that has been untasted.

WTF, it is your egocentrism, your selfishness and your utmost rapaciousness that are in play there. Men are predators and hunters, though not all of them. Some have that belief that for marriage to be enjoyed the woman has to be unopened if I have got to put that way.

I am still young, probably not to give this wording but where I am from women' virginity is considered as a value. Indeed, it is a value only at the margin of the man who is getting married to you. May he be virgin, he would be right to desire a virgin woman.

WTF: How many men would be virgin if humans got their orgasms swapped? The question can look like a joke but only few would qualify.
This is a point of reflection as it simply shows that we all have feelings. The outcome of the carnal feeling that egress from that desire of sweating along the opposite is found in anyone. It is just it cannot be traced from the female perspective and that gives the male the upper hand.

It is unfortunate that is the reality. Men expect a woman to be virgin before marriage as the act is more enjoyable even that act has been enjoyed with other women. I do not know if I am right to sell out this but after having thought about it, we are wrong quite often.

Who should point finger?

So, he did say that the other one has to pay back the money which the other did not even know that he was stealing (taking without knowing). It was quite an amusing scene to see the mentor being finger-pointed by the apprentice. He used to be the driving force of the youth division before he defected to start his own thing. Politics is so multifaceted, very difficult to grasp and understand but always a very hilarious and thorough subject to make fun of. 

It was given a theatrical image sometimes ago, during the last parliament assembly that I watched. A bit as if everyone was following a script, with tense periods and rhythm.

It sort of looked as if the rhymes put in the mouth of the  one who seemingly does not qualify anymore to be the lead actor (he actually never was the lead actor) cannot be well pronounced, he probably has issues with mathematics or counting. He just cannot impersonate the personage anymore (he actually never did). 

The young talent pushing from the back wants to be recognised and maybe have a lead role, but it will only be to lead astray. Even when he defends that leading astray if a way of leading anyway.

And finally, there is the quiet one, who is just getting his confidence back. He thinks because he is clever and smart he got what it takes to be one to be reckoned with. it simply seems as if he is a better actor when he does not say anything. 

We cannot forget our extras, who are just there to fill the empty seats because all the roles have to be taken. They enjoy the pawn-role and maybe should they be in the audience. They are not even allowed to make a sound, they might just be told to stop breathing because it is disturbing. 

The audience is crowded, around 130 million eyes are looking at them, trying to understand what is going on on that stage... it looks funny sometimes when they point fingers to each other. 

The politics cannot be just understood, that is their role. 

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Can I still believe in Democracy in Africa? A bleak future

This is probably one the hardest topic to talk about in Africa. It is the hardest as it can send you to prison, get you killed or simply because you can feel powerless whatever you denounce. Everything that happens on this continent seems to go against the growth and empowerment  of democratic people and of a sort of democratization of institutions in Africa. 

The one big mistake that I always encounter is that everyone thinks that since democracy is power for the people, we can use it anyhow we please. Please, that is not true. With power comes responsibility and it seems like, politicians today have completely forgotten that or they choose deliberately to ignore it. I do not really enjoy talking about and around politics but it just feels natural to bring about the injustices that we suffer because of the mismanagement and mislead of the leaders. 

Do the leading people know what it means to lead?

In today CVs, we always mention that out: leadership skills. Do we know what it means? leading implies a huge level of management and simply put management involves balance. I cannot find any in the political picture of Africa. That balance comes with changes and succession, understanding and clarity. Everything in that seems to be walked over in my continent. 

In South Africa, where I study and live, I see the politics being done very differently from Congo (DR) , my country of origin. Here, one can still grab a slight sight of politics. It makes feel like I am an alien; as if I was governed by lions living in the stone age. It simply looks ridiculous to me. It reminds me a bit of Pharoah before Egypt was hit by the 10 plagues. The warning did not scare him off or even accidentally changed his views and opinions about liberating the Hebrews. Is it the kind of end that should be foreseen for all the predatory politicians that everlasting throne in the presidency seat in my continent. I am looking for a way to believe in this corruption, nepotism, and obvious greed. Unfortunately, everything around me makes it hard and greatly impossible to be believe in. The staggering and compelling incompetency of some African leaders just baffle me and I often wonder if the future can look anyhow but bleak.