so, today i was told a joke, and it made me think alittle...
here is the joke and my thoughts below...

so i have a question for you... there is a very bad storm
in limpopo, water and lightning and floods everywhere...
and you are busy taking photo's... and you notice julius
malema busy drowning and getting washed away in the
water, and he his probably gonna drown... what do you
do...?

do you shoot colour film or black and white...? do you use
a long or slow exposure...?

so its a bit of a rethorical question... but the reason it made
me think, is because when i heard it today, i knew before
it was finished being told, that it was connected to the mugabe
joke i was told at the end of the 90's... i used to work with
journalist photographers, and in photography there is always
the ethical question... when do you shoot, and when not... and
one of the photographers said to me... "mugabe is hanging on
a tree, and is about to be eaten by a crocodile, but you could
stick out a branch and save him... so what do you do...? do you
use colour film or black and white...?"

so first i found it pretty funny, but then i satrted to think a bit,
and it started to scare me a little... because, we are making
similar jokes and having similar fears about malema, as have
been been made about mugabe, and that sucks... because we
all know malema admires mugabe and is trying similar
approaches, but when i realise how much power, and exactley
how similar things are, i get freaked out...

but saying all this, im still postive about this country, i still think
its got a lot going, and i dont want media, and politics, and
crazyness to make us, as south africans, scared... not just yet...
i just hope super man, and the x men, (maybe even hancock) arrive
soon, and kick some crazy messed up asses...

thats my 2cents for today...!!!