More SA merger "furor"

This is a story about another problem related to the name changes of the merged South African universities.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200310310798.html
Jack

 

Yip. Asmal's at it again. His plans have more holes than Verwoerd's shirt. Why not name the thing after Sisulu? I get the feeling that Dr Kadertastrophe isn't happy unless he's p***ing people off for no known reason. I mean, if the New Order of Things in SA wishes to honour its heroes, who better than Walter Sisulu? Now, if it were Vijay Sisulu, I suspect the hon. Minister would have no objections...

 

Doesn't South Africa have a prime minister. I know it has a president.

In Canada, when a moron cabinet minister goes off on weird tangents, the moron prime minister kicks his moron butt back in line.

The government stands or falls by the cumulative total of the government's stupidity and the job of the moron prime minister is to minimize the cumulative stupidity of his moron cabinet ministers.

I should have studied government - oh that's right - I did.

 

No, not any more. In the really old days there was a king or queen and a prime minister who was head of government (Louis Botha, Smuts, Hertzog, Smuts again, Malan, Strijdom, Verwoerd). In the old days (after 1960) there was a ceremonial president (for example Nico Diederichs, who was also at one point head of the late lamented RAU) and a prime minister (Verwoerd, Vorster, PW Botha) who was head of government. I believe that die ou krokodil got rid of this and assumed the title State President, held by him and then by de Klerk. In the New Order of Things first Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki (hic) have served as president. There is no prime minister. And AIDS does not exist.