South Africa: Drop the “darkie” defence Blade....it’s well past its best before date.

Every now and then David Bullard writes a piece of satirical gold. The article below is in reaction to a comment made by the South African Higher Education Minister (snigger, snigger), Blade Nzimande in Parliament a few days back. Comrade Nzimande said the following: 

“If the matric results are bad, this is taken as proof that this government of DARKIES is incapable. If the matric pass rate goes up, it means the results have been manipulated by these DARKIES.”

Now, imagine if the DA opposition party, lead by a white woman, had said the same thing about the government? One can only dream....but back in reality, the thought police would have had her out on the streets, disgraced and vilified for being racist - she may even have been necklaced (no, dear international readers, not the good kind). But, because it's the ANC, they of course find nothing wrong with his "darkie" remarks (actually, neither do I - call a spade a spade in my books). In any case, the bigger picture is that people have dared to question the almost unbelievably fantastic rise in the matric pass rate last year - I mean, the jump was so dramatic that people actually wondered whether the results were manipulated or if the quality of exam papers was so poor that my 5 year old nephew, who can't read or write, could pass them with 110%. The ANC have reassured the sheeple of South Africa that it's because of the brilliant education system they've managed to screw up put into place over the last 17 years - nothing more, nothing less. I, of course, believe them completely and you doubters out there should be ashamed of yourselves.....


The esteemed "Higher Education Minister" Blade Nzimande

Blade Nzimande, excitable darkie, luxury car driving commie and part time minister for higher education, is absolutely right to be angry and frustrated when coconuts from opposition parties blame this “government of darkies” when matric results are poor and then accuse the same darkies of rigging the results when they appear to be good. As far as poor Blade is concerned it’s a lose lose situation. It’s telling though that the ANC “darkie” government is even perceived by one of its own ministers as being extremely low on credibility. Why else would Blade have made such a remark in parliament?
It is the job of an opposition to put the government of the day in as difficult a position as possible. So Nzimande shouldn’t be too surprised about the charges of rigging the matric results. What he should be concerned about is whether there is any truth in the accusation. Judging by his over-reaction there may well be reasons to believe that the ANC has fiddled the matric results to make them look better but isn’t that what any government would do? It’s not just “darkie governments” that manipulate statistics. I know of quite a few “ governments of whiteys” that cook the books, tell a few fibs, release terrorists because they want to do an oil deal, massage crime statistics etc etc. So poor old Blade mustn’t take on so and imagine that the ANC have unique bragging rights when it comes to sleaze and dishonesty. Compared with most European governments the ANC are mere babes in arms although, it has to be said, they learn fast. That in itself is a tribute to the education system.

Now, back to the superb matric results of last year. Whether they were rigged or not actually doesn’t matter a damn because all will eventually come out in the wash. For example, if you drop basic education standards to allow more students to pass matric the next thing you have to do is to persuade the universities to drop their standards and admit obviously unsuitable students. So, let’s assume that has happened and the universities are now no longer institutions of learning but institutions designed to make a whole lot of people feel good about going to university. It would be unthinkable (and racist) to fail students who had been previously disadvantaged so the universities are given a racial quota to let them know the percentage of students from the various race groups expected to get a degree. With that end in mind it’s then possible to design a course that is virtually impossible to fail while also allowing students time to trash the campus, smash up the bathrooms, set fire to the administration offices and all those good things that make university life so rewarding. Blade’s happy. Everyone’s happy.

Only now does a problem arise. Those students who have been conned into thinking they passed a decent matric and got a real degree now have to go out into the workplace with those bits of paper and compete with other job seekers. Since commercial enterprises have to make profits to survive they are unlikely to be quite as accommodating as universities dependant on government funding. Within a very short space of time the weaknesses of a flawed education system will be revealed because it’s impossible to fool all the people all the time in the business world. Obviously the government can intervene (as they have) by insisting that companies employ their quota of “darkies” but that doesn’t real help matters in the long term. It’s just part of the feel good factor instilled at university. Eventually the market place decides and inefficient companies don't survive. Look at the current problems at Nokia for an excellent example of competition at work.

If we expect South African companies to make their way in the world then they need to have access to the best and brightest brains available. That cannot possibly happen if we drop our education standards below that of other countries. In fact, by doing so we are dealing our young people a double whammie. They won’t be employable here and they certainly won’t be employable anywhere else in the world.

If the standard of education in this country was the envy of other countries then there would have been no need for Blade to have made his “darkie” comments. The fact that he was so defensive suggests that he is well aware that our education system is almost as sickly as our health system. And that has absolutely nothing to do with the skin colour of the government.....it’s just down to pure ineptitude. The “darkie” defence used by the likes of Blade Nzimande should be treated with the disdain it deserves.

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