What and where is Democracy?

In fact, is there even such a thing as Democracy?

I listen with confusion at the daily news casts.

The so called ‘Democratic’ Governments, (particularly our own).

Take for example, the recent moves to ‘Toll’ our existing roads, here in the Cape and up north.

By all accounts it  costs an absolute fortune to collect, there seems to be only one ‘Business/Company’ who will make money out of it, NO-ONE want it implemented, we all know the funds will not be used for the stated purpose, yet they are going ahead. (the DA, the ruling party in the Cape, don’t want it, even the ANC do not want it, yet, again, it is going ahead!).

If they took a poll and asked the people (anywhere in the world) if they like the corruption and theft that takes place by the, so-called, leaders, the only ones who can in fact DO something about it, I dare say they would rather have the funds are used for the correct purpose, yet it goes ahead all the time.

Many times over my  life, I have seen the 'people' trying to do something about the crime and corruption in their communities, they are stopped, they are told the police should take care of it, yet they do not and the people (many times the ones who could solve the problem), are not permitted to do so and they sit with the ongoing problem.

 Who the hell decides in the end, certainly not the people. Why do we bother to have elections?, our Government is put in place and then do what ever they like, certainly not what is best for those who put them there in the first place.

Where does the ‘will of the people’ come in?

I recieved this email today............very interesting?

I have copied and pasted the text as I got it, it makes very intersting reading: (Some people might think this is a bit right wing, but I got it from an impeccable source, who is quite a liberalist!) The real truth about the ‘PREVIOUSLY DISADVANTAGED’ The author of this article is right on the money. The fact is nobody owes blacks anything. This is from a comment on a News24 site. Please explain the term "PREVIOUSLY DISADVANTAGED" Kindly make special reference to following: 1. Who "disadvantaged" the black people of the interior Southern Africa before the (supposed) ‘belligerent’ white settlers moved inland in the mid-19th century? What the settlers found was not hugely advanced infrastructures -- deep mines, hospitals, vast libraries of written knowledge, imposing institutions of learning, etc. No, as little as 170 years ago they found masses of black people (indigenous to the Southern tip of Africa) living on the fringes of the Stone Age. Primitive beings dressed in skins, wielding sticks, living in primitive dwellings, dragging- and carrying their meager possessions around, since they had not been introduced to the benefits of the wheel yet! 2. Ethiopia - a country that was NEVER colonised is today one of the most desolate places on the planet! Who "disadvantaged" the people of Ethiopia? 3. Compare Zimbabwe and Germany with each other and please explain the differences. In 1945 Germany was, for all intents and purposes, flattened to ground and torn in half. Fifteen years later, West Germany was described as an "Economic Wonder". Around the same time as the end of apartheid, Germany was re-unified. It yanked the now-unified Germany back four centuries in time. Yet, in about fifteen years (for the second time within a few decades) it built another 'economic wonder'. Today it is fast becoming a global leader in almost every field! On the flip side – Zimbabwe’s people were handed one of the wealthiest countries in the WORLD (for e.g. a currency that was stronger than the US dollar!). What is the situation today? Competing with Ethiopia as the most desolate hellhole on the planet? Please explain... I can carry on for days -- but let that be enough for now. Just one more request: please, pretty please, kindly respect the intellect of our audience and refrain from cheap (ANC-like) red herrings for eg. calling people racists. Just answer the questions directly and with tangible substance. In parting, I would suggest the following: The term "Previously Disadvantaged' is as much a fantasy as is the delusional lunacy that threatens voters with the revenge of the ancestors. The same delusional insanity that claims the words "KILL THE BOER" really, only means, "Come over to my mansion for tea and cookies." You cannot take something from somebody WHO NEVER HAD IT in the first place! In fact, what is it that white people, specifically white men, are supposed to "give back" to black people? Can someone PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE explain to me what it is that white men took from blacks? LAND? Blacks NEVER owned any land. Any form of formal ownership is a Western concept. The black tribes of the mid-19th century haphazardly SETTLED in an ad hoc manner -- effectively governed by tribal savagery – in other words, the most savage ruled the land (a bit like Hillbrow today). They simply ran away until they could not run any more -- not having ANY grasp of the concept of a horizon or for that matter any measure of finite land mass – for eg. the boundaries -- that is the fundamental concept of ownership. MINERALS? More hallucinations aside -- eg ancient gold mines -- a little bit like the Zimbabwe Ruins (the Pyramids, etc) -- next to the magnificent structure, the indigenous people built stone-age dwellings out of dirt and sticks (at best emulating the birds). Minerals beneficiation is an entirely Imperialist/Western concept -- in fact, in many ways it saw some of the most tangible advances, by WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN MEN -- just perusesome of the academic papers at Wits' Engineering Library. WEALTH? Money, capital and the pivotal mechanisms of the wealth that allows you to breathe, eat, have children, live a rather healthy productive and fulfilling life, but also allowed the cognitive development that leads you to make your daft comments here -- it is ALL of Western origins. In fact, the key advancements in modern finance and economics were made by the DUTCH. Why do you think New York’s financial center is called 'Wall Street'? It was initially called 'Waal Straat'.when the settlement was under Dutch control Yes, my dear, the Dutch took their cognitive substance there as well. The same Dutch that were the most direct decendants of the people who landed at the Cape in 1652. In fact, the modern 'WEALTH system' was originated by the Dutch and it funded the explorations around the tip of Africa. Perhaps we robbed the ‘disatvantaged’ blacks of their private jets, their Breitling watches, their Italian designer suits, or their German luxury limousines, their Blue Light Brigades or perhaps their space shuttles?