ABOUT CABINET MINISTERS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

ADVISERS TO THE PRESIDENT

Friday, 28 November 2014
Cabinet ministers should be individuals who are nationally the most qualified in their sector of command.

The advisers (ministers) to the president of a country should be chosen from the best equip to influence the ruling of a nation.
Having the most qualified advisers could be an election incentive.
To give examples:

A minister for mining (mineral resources):
 should have the appropriate degrees and experience to run a mining operation. 
He/she should definitely be one who had experience of working conditions below and above the surface.
He/She must have experience to compete on global and national platforms.
He/She should have a good understanding of the neutralization process of mining waste and what impact it has on the environment.
He/She should be able to do an objective environmental assessment and analysis before implementing new projects, and be able to pilot or find alternative solutions to public concerns.   Too many leaders use job creation as the prime reason to push their projects.
He/she needs to be a good speaker and listener. 
He/she needs the ability to evaluate the best course of action for the present, while having an understanding of the future human, financial and environmental impact of his decisions.

He/she needs to realize that Mining is primary an operation that should create prosperity for the country where it is mined.
Proceeds of a mining operation should alleviate poverty of the whole nation and not just a region.

He needs to understand that the raw products of mining are a national asset as well as a global commodity.   We live on one earth, which we all should share.

The minister of health
 should be a qualified professor of medicine and have previous experience of being a chief medical adviser at a hospital or medical institution, either practical or educational.

He/She should have experience of handling the needs of doctors, nurses and auxiliary workers in both private and state run medical facilities.

He/She should have qualifications/experience in psychology, communication, and the medical needs of the majority citizens and those of the poor and have some interest in addressing the medical needs of all citizens.
All cabinet ministers should also have a reasonable understanding of the law, mathematics and be able to do a statistical analysis, or run pilot programs in case of public concerns.

They should be good motivational and nation building speaker who can address and take responsibility for failures.

There should be a bridging course for leaders or company executives to enable them to acquire above skills as well as training in human resource management, communication and psychology.

All leaders should run their sectors so that it creates better human conditions.
We had our share of ministers, who can only rule by blaming someone or something else, take advice from incompetent dreamers, or push their product by playing on the sentiments of the public by promising job creation.

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 HISTORY

• 1 Cabinet from 2013 to date
• 2 Cabinet from 2011 to 2012
• 3 Cabinet from 2010 to 2011
• 4 Cabinet from 2009 to 2010
• 5 Cabinet from 2008 to 2009
• 6 Cabinet from 2004 to 2008
• 7 Cabinet from 1999 to 2004
• 8 Cabinet from 1994 to 1999
• 9 Cabinet of F W de Klerk
• 10 Cabinet from 1924 to 1938
• 11 Cabinet from 1919 to 1924
• 12 Cabinet from 1910 to 1919
• 13 Reference

HEAL THE INNER CHILD OF AFRICA

WAR AND PEACE‎ > ‎

Heal the INNER CHILD of developing countries

There are many African children and adults, who grow/grew up in militant environments. 
Some of them are politicians today. 
Some will be the leaders of tomorrow.  
They have/are militant leaders.
There roll models are/where “Freedom Fighters”.
They regard fighting for the freedom of their countries as their life's destinies.

They dream about having an enemy to kill and to follow in the footsteps of those who fight before them.

Singing war songs and songs about slaying enemies of the past helps them to seal their fate.
Their fate is one of having an enemy to fight.    
 
In many cases they could strip a gun, before they could recite the ABC.
Many of them never completed their schooling.

Food and personal possessions may be (where) scarce, but guns and ammunition where regarded as prized possessions. 

They would dream about owning the best assault rifles like their  worldly counterparts reamed about owning the latest cars.

When democracy came to Africa  the freedom-fighters were not prepared for peace.  

Democratic peace and possessions offered no challenge. 
The truth-commission satisfied their lust for revenge for a while, 
but they were not programmed for peace.


People became restless.   Their souls urged them to fulfill their destinies, their reason for being.   
 What does a fighter do when the fight is over?
All that life taught them was how to fight the enemy so they started to create divisions within their societies and nations. 
They separated the colors in the rainbow, because a rainbow nation includes no opportunity to  fight. 
 It was easy to make all white people and foreigners their enemy.
 Fighting them is all they knew how to do.   

In order to heal Africa we need to find ways to heal the ‘inner-child’ of the nations and its leaders.

While the inner-child of the developing world remained untreated, the seeds of peace will have to wait generations to grow.    
Only skills development education and positive leadership can heal the leaders of tomorrow.


We need to find a way to reach out to the injured ‘inner core of society’, of the world and teach them that love and forgiveness, not revenge and war lead to freedom.
Freedom is not fighting, it is embracing unity.


Only when we become world citizens can we heal the earth.

Written 3 September 2011 by Rose W and edited by EX UNITATE VIRES 21-11-2014

When your neighbor has more than you,

it does not make you poorer

Each person gets to enjoy the fruit of his/her labors

You can build your success alongside that of your neighbor,

Don't indulged in jealousy, but use your neighbor as a roll model.

Like attracts like,

You are lucky to have him/her in your environment.

A country in debt follows a road to bondage or slavery.

A country in dept can never be a global financial leader.   Such nations can only have power in their local newspapers, but to their foreign competitors they are incompetent fools.

Borrowed money should only be a band-aid, for a very brief period, until the wound heals.

A wound that is too big to heal within the allocated time, needs surgery.

(Drastic internal strategies)

Financial drain often leaks into the pockets of top wage earners and government leaders who consider themselves financially untouchable kings.

African nations must be careful of taking a financial gift in exchange of favors.   Those favors may be invisible shackles of slavery.

Be free Africa.  Be strong Africa.    

Be governable Africa.

Owe nothing to anyone.  

Beg nothing from anyone.

Fight against theft, corruption, racism and violence.

Let the past be in the past, a lesson learned, and strive towards new lessons of the future,

 ground the vision, of the  rainbow nation, of freedom for all citizens.

EX UNITATE VIRES.

People should all be free to create their own success without being robbed of it.

The people of South Africa are not free.

While city dwellers have to live behind bars and security systems, there is no freedom.

While robbers, rapists and murderers rule the country, there is no freedom.

South Africa merely swapped the bondage of Apartheid for the bondage of crime, corruption and violence.

For something to heal there should first be the recognition of the problem.

While we live in a make-believe bubble of peace, we will never experience freedom.

We still need to fight for freedom.

We need to fight crime, corruption and violence, while we envisage the type of future we want.

We need to have a true vision what freedom is and work towards it.

If we cannot put strong boundaries around our freedom-vision where there are equal opportunities and peace for all people, then we cannot create it.

We cannot create something that we cannot envisage.

Freedom must have the same meaning for all people; otherwise, we shatter the combined effort.

South Africa should strive for that rainbow that signals the end of all bondage.

The end of the bondage of fear,

The end of the bondage of poverty and

The end of the bondage of limitation.

We should all be free to create our own success without being robbed of it.

2015, A YEAR OF JUDGEMENT

During 2015, the eyes of the world will be on African governments.  The world will analyze statistical data relating to crime, unemployment health care, corruption and land use.

They will measure poverty, unemployment, and the gap between rich and poor.

Above all, they will analyze government spending and look at why and how donations and opportunities to make poverty history by 2015 failed.

Governments will be classified, not only by their ability to create and maintain good human relations for all citizens and their ability to handle conflict situations but also on their ability to be global partners.

Aid and donations to third world nations will not continue as before.   Governments who failed will be by passed and those who attempted to create peace and prosperity will be further boosted.

2015 will be a year of judgement for all national rulers.   

Which rulers will weigh too light?

Which leaders will be classed as incompetent fools?

Modern Tribal Africa

Tribal Africans are born soldiers (impis), being ruled by royal families.   

Africa still has to learn the laws of unity and sharing with all tribes.

Many African rulers recognize peace as something to fight for, but they use the old methods of fighting against a group of people (an enemy), instead of fighting the element of violence and unrest.

The real enemy is not the successful white South Africans.   The real enemy to fight is that what counteracts prosperity for all people.

The real enemy is an attitude of crime, corruption violence and armed robberies.

While there are guns in the hands of the public, there will always be those who feel powerful behind it.   Trigger happy cowards.

Some African politicians search past history, to find old scores to settle, in order to create an enemy. 
Conquering an enemy was the way of the past.
Some politicians feel only powerful when they can function in an atmosphere of racial hatred.   
Without an enemy, they have no governing skill.

Africa needs to move from using physical strength through war and cunning tactics in order to secure power.
The way to peace and prosperity is to developing mental strength to grow a strong economy that can overcome poverty.

African politicians need to develop real governing skills.   They need to learn how to empower all races and get them to work together.

African leaders need to acquire the tools to build the rainbow continent.

Do not die fighting for freedom - live it!

Freedom can only exist if there are no suppressors!

 If freedom and peace are not regarded as the right of all citizens,

 and not only a right for those who were previously suppressed,

today's  freedom fighters will one day become the suppressors. 

Separatism becomes a vicious circle.   

Think about it!

(Please note  this is a rewrite of a previous post )

  The three main evils in developing countries.

1. Lack of birth control (people having more children than they can afford to feed and educate)
2. Alcohol and drug abuse.   (People allowing substance to take over their brain control)
3. Disrespect for fellow citizens. (Theft, abuse and corruption)

 

 

The gap between the developed and the undeveloped countries

Change can only happen when people desire it.

The difference between developed and developing countries is determined how intelligent their decision-making processes are and their ability to manage their human resource.

Babies can not walk before they have learned how to roll over or sit up in their cradles.    

The maturity of leaders can be judged on how they are able to put their country or community's needs above their own.  
The old king-and-castle leaders are being seen as exploiters who feather their own nests at the expense of  their citizens. 
The first world expects their leaders to  promote their country as a powerful global co-operative player.   They see themselves as group players with their leaders the captains of their team.



Responsibility and control are two elements of maturity.

A self diagnoses of the maturity of the citizens in a region or an organization can be measured by the way they behave during strike action or protest actions:

A mature group will respect the right and possessions of other.
They will be non-violent.
They will not degrade their community or country.
They will not derail the country's opportunity to achieve or grow financially strong. (Strike action during global sporting of conferencing events)
They will not 'cut their noses to spite their faces' by burning down libraries or schools because they want a better education.
They will not ask the government to fix toilets or broken windows in schools before trying to do it themselves or by asking for help from the community first.
They will not steal from hospitals or institutions that is there to aid those in need.
Nurses will not desert those in their care to strike for more wages.
A first world country know how to maintain roads or public buildings.    Lack of maintenance is a sign of immaturity and in most cases not of poverty.
The gap between the living styles of leaders and citizens is another measure for financial abuse.

This post seems unnecessary for those who have the ability to think for themselves, but there are so many people in developing countries who are still using their combined power destructively.   The problem is that they are being driven by self centered leaders who should have more integrity.

A better world, faster.

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2015 A YEAR FOR JUDGEMENT
DO NOT DIE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM, LIVE IT

 

South Africans need to go back to basics

Teach the teachers also.

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Freedom is not only a right, it is also a responsibility.

Freedom to know the truth is regarded as a basic human right in countries where the governing bodies are prepared to take the responsibility for their actions.

Institutions with something to hide or cover up, on the other hand would welcome a secrecy bill.

Is it possible for any leading African country to take a step back to the days of Apartheid with gagging policies on information sharing?

I do not think the world will tolerate another iron curtain.   Instead of hiding information with secrecy bills, the truth will be published in through the international media, which will focus the world attention on other government shortcomings also.

Parallels will be drawn with countries like Zimbabwe and the suppressive era in our history, resulting in negative criticism for the Sub Saharan African region.

The truth will come to a boil in Google, Twitter, Facebook, U-Tube etc through the internet and other international media.   

We are moving towards globalization.       The world is moving towards responsible action and cover-ups are not tolerated any longer.    The global media hunts the revealing of truth behind a cover-up with the same passion as an Astronomer in his search for undiscovered heavenly bodies.

What is Transformation?

Transformation should not aim towards changing the colour of leadership to ‘black or white’. The aim of transformation should be towards perfection, or so that it can deliver a better service (which is another measure for perfection).   The aim should be to be better than before, not only look better.    Majority will rule in the long run, if they are given educational opportunities on par with the best, but then they will also need strong role models; people in charge that stand head and shoulders above their subordinates.    They need to aim to win by being the best, and not aim for an emotional sympathy vote.

The drawbacks of putting someone with lesser qualifications (but a better skin tone) in charge will have negative kickbacks.
•    The more qualified co-workers will criticize the decisions made by the leadership.
•    They will neglect their own work because they are disillusioned by the system.
•    They may complain to the press who will report on the weak decision making process and the country concerned will loose Brownie-points from the global community.
•    The sky-limit will just be another step lower than it can be; the best would have been downgraded.
•    A developing country will be another step further from being included in the global decision making group (or a step closer to loosing that position).

In South Africa employment decisions should not favour colour above competence.   If we do that we shall continue to be a developing nation.   We need to break out of the ‘apartheid’ mould to become a developed nation.

No part is bigger than the whole.

No one race is more important than unity, because only a united country can break barriers.   Only a united country can work together to achieve greatness.

Using the same measure no country is bigger than the continent.    South Africa is not bigger than Africa.   A continent is measured both by its best and worst nations.

No one continent is bigger than the world.   No nation is bigger than the world of nations.   No race is bigger than the whole of humanity.

We should transform according to the measure of humanity; it is the only way to be a developed nation on the global platform.     To measure against humanity is the only way to rise to leadership.

EX UNITATE VIRES

The photograph below is the headlines of an article from the Cape Times 10/04/13 which was the inspiration for this blog post.   The contents should be regarded as fact because it is incomplete.  

Low-cost broadband internet for schools

SOUTH Africa is involved in trials to provide low-cost broadband internet to rural schools.
 This project will make of unused parts of the television (TV) frequency spectrum to provide low-cost broadband internet.
 The feasibility study is being funded by Google.
It was launched in Cape Town on 25 March 2013in partnership with the tertiary Education and Research Network (Tenet) of SA and the Council for Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Television white spaces
(TWVS) are unused spaces in the television spectrum that can be used for broadband.
 The advantage of white spaces is that low-frequency signals can travel longer distances. This ability makes the technology suitable to provide low-cost connectivity to rural communities with Poor telecoms infrastructure, according to Google.
 The above is an extract from an article in Cape Times 26-03-20

Ex Unitate Vires.

The above post is a synopsis of an article from The Cape Times 26-03-2003

In 2000, leaders from 189 nations signed on to the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG) designed to significantly the reduction of  global poverty and disease

Since 2000, tangible results prove that dramatic progress is possible when developing countries and donor governments fulfil their ends of the bargain. But despite these successes, much more needs to be done to ensure that MDG are met by 2015, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, which is the region farthest off-track from reaching the goals.

The same political parties have been in power in South Africa since the global decision to make poverty history.

How do the South African politicians demonstrate through their own lifestyles that they are prepared to share wealth with the poor?

One only needs to read the local news on government and political spending to find that answer.   If the government leaders cut their own wasteful spending then it would not have been necessary to tax the 25 percent of citizens, with sustainable jobs, into the poverty bracket.

If BBE companies were being built from the grassroots up, instead of hijacking the employment selection of profitable companies, the 75% of black managed companies would have been a reality and not just a dream.

One can not exchange experience or education for skin pigmentation.

The failure of poverty reduction lies in the fact that the government wanted to steal white positions instead of building international trading centres.    The money was there to do it.   There was a time when the world poured cash into African countries, until they found out that it all ended up in the hands of executives while the poor grew poorer.

It is time to reflect on past failures on the home front;   the failures of the last twenty years.   Think how much money would there have been if companies did not move overseas to escape government interferences.

How much money and expertise would there have been if people were not made redundant while they were in their prime just to make way to empower other with less experience.

It is time that executives realize that decisions do not need to be made in expensive restaurants or in private jets.    Much money can be saved if the system of video conferencing is utilized to its fullest.

Perhaps we can, from now on, calculate spending, like the cost of executive dinners, with the number of basic wage packets spent on one sitting, instead of just considering dollars and pounds.     We need to see actions in perspective.      

The penny has to drop in such a way that each leader evaluates his own financial footprint.

RW

Do not get trapped in the web of past pain.

   Freedom can only truly be granted if there are no suppressors

 

If freedom and peace is not regarded as the right of all citizens,

 and not only a right for those who were previously suppressed, 

today's  freedom fighters will one day be the suppressors.  

Separatism becomes a vicious circle.    

Think about it!

Calculate a country's debt to a Global Save The Planet fund

Reasons why many countries are not supporting climate change initiatives are based on a perception of their economical viability.  Today we are recognizing the global financial crises and the extinction of certain animals because they lost their habitat.   Most countries are yet to seriously considering the extinction of humanity due to the loss of the planet.

The debt owed by a country to a “Save the planet fund” could be calculated using some criteria for example by:

The population of a country,

The percentage of green space

Money spent on saving the planet.

Percentage of waste produced by industry.

The use of fuel for transport etc.

The quality of the water supply.

Etc.

The financial status of a country should not come into the calculation because starvation is not a reason for destroying a planet.

A mathematical calculation of a country’s debt to the ‘global planet fund’ can be reduced by changing the criteria that pushes it up.

E.g.

·         Slow down the population growth,

·         purify water,

·         reduce dependence on fuel,

·          Recycle waste etc.

·         Preserve nature.