General Butt Naked - Cannibal of the year 2009

General Butt Naked was a rebel commander from Liberia's civil war and is hereby awarded the prestigious Nongqawuse Cannibal of the Year 2009.

General Butt Naked told reporters that at the age of 11 he had a telephone call from the Devil who demanded nudity on the battlefield, acts of indecency and regular human sacrifices to ensure his protection. (Buzzle)

"So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people — so many I lost count." (Wiki)

"Sometimes I would enter under the water where children were playing. I would dive under the water, grab one, carry him under and break his neck. Sometimes I'd cause accidents. Sometimes I'd just slaughter them."

"But in June last year God telephoned me and told me that I was not the hero I considered myself to be, so I stopped and became a preacher." (Coming Anarchy)

Only those who can blandly admit to killing and eating many are in line for the award. I understand the nudity demanded by the Devil, but what of MOTIVE?

"I agreed, because at that time they offered me a lot of money. Everything I did, I did on a commercial basis." (FSU)

Well there you go.. The love of money.. The root of all evil...

Kevin Wustefeld Janssens - A whole other kind of stupid

According to the farm's project co-ordinator, Kevin Wustefeld Janssens, "As a result of the assessments, we were able to establish the actual potential, understanding and therefore evoke our capability as managers by managing people correctly, therefore creating a spirit of motivation and increased productivity." He added that by doing this, they were able to restructure the business, and appoint and place people with the correct behaviour profiles to the various positions of leadership. (Business Services Industry)

The power of understanding

The process has been an amazing revelation, said Wustefeld, and the fact that real capacity exists in current staff eliminates the need to recruit or rely on outsiders. This debunks the myth of scarcity or inadequate capacity within empowerment projects that enable people to manage their own destiny through the ability to understand themselves and understand how to adapt their own behaviour to motivate another person's behaviour, he said.

As the saying goes, a "born leader" constantly modifies behaviour to draw out the best from others. However, most managers find it difficult initially to act in different ways with different people. With constant practice and awareness, not only will it become second nature; leaders can increase their own awareness and sensitivity to others, and as a consequence, influence others to become more productive and focused in their own self-development.

"By gaining clarity of your own behavioural style and that of others' and modifying your own behaviour, you will then be able to effectively manage and lead a team of individuals with variant personalities."

Constantly modifying your behaviour is not the hallmark of a great leader. It is the hallmark of a lying cheating stealing piece of shit. Your own behavioural style cost the failed farm project R3000 a day!

How can you rape a toddler?

Speaking at a police briefing yesterday, Petros, who took the opportunity to announce new appointees, said his reluctance to visit the bushes where the toddler's body was found was fuelled by his incomprehension of how a three-year-old could be raped. (from IOL)

"When I was told about her abduction, I held my breath in the hope that she would be found alive. I can't imagine how a three-year-old can be raped and stabbed." (Why would you want to?)

He said there was a commitment made by police to see that more capacity was given to units which dealt with this type of crime and thanked the NGOs for counselling families and police officers who visited crime scenes involving children.

Petros said residents should be appreciative of police officers who investigated crimes against children as he "can't imagine the trauma they must face".

Ehe... It's like Hollywood... I kant imagine!

Child abductions in the Western Cape

No police officer anywhere in the world would allow the payment of ransom money, Western Cape police commissioner Mzwandile Petros said on Wednesday at a media briefing on the death of three-year-old Viwe Mnembe. (from IOL)

"Globally, there's no police official who will allow anybody to pay ransom money to anybody.

"Because you know what will happen: you will be hijacked in the garage, and somebody's going to be saying, I want ten rand, and then it's easy money." (It's good to see our top policeman shooting his mouth off like this...)

"It is becoming a normal thing in the Western Cape, which is unfortunate. Each and every weekend we will have child abducted."

"We need to investigate this thing further, why is this thing happening in the Western Cape." (errr R500?)

ALL deserve UNIVERSITY edukation

Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande, who will take over the troubled Setas, wants experienced workers without matric - or matriculants without exemptions - to study at universities. (from IOL)

"Why should a 40-year-old adult who didn't get a matric exemption, but has 12 years' work experience, go and write matric exams when he has enormous experience?" (Because standing in the garden with a spade for 12 years hasn't made him more intelligent and literate!)

The fact that only 18 percent of matriculants gained matric exemptions last year was not a true reflection of the potential of the youth. (It's not a reflection of the youth, but a reflection on the schools and the teachers at those schools. The problem does not lie in the admission standards.... it lies in the academic standards for the schools. Changing the admission standards is not ever going to improve the quality of the students. Earning a university degree requires motivation, dedication and perseverence.)

A report on post-compulsory school provision, commissioned by former education minister Naledi Pandor, found that 2.8 million of 6.8 million 18-to-24-year-olds in South Africa were not employed, in educational institutions or at workplace training.

Said Nzimande: "This implies 40 percent of our youth are not productively engaged due to very limited access to post-school education and training opportunities, poor resources, the lack of financing and the restricted unavailability of jobs. (Blade does not mention how getting a degree from a university translates to a job nor how many umemployed people there are with degrees.)

"This is a huge wastage of human potential."