Lekota love...? a bit of a back and forth note

I was listening to 5fm this morning (Gareth always has something to say that i find interesting) and they were interviewing Lekota.

What a well-spoken, calm yet passionate, sincere-sounding, dedicated man.
He seems clear in his thoughts and pretty reasonable.

In response to a question regarding opinions that what he is doing is fighting for a job and his current lifestyle, he spoke of his fight for equality for all South Africans, all of our people, and how it ended up landing him in prison not once but twice...
Why then, he said, would he now be fighting for something of less importance like a job.
Hasn't he really proven twice that his passion and hunger lies in seeing South Africa reach the vision that he, and many people who died, believed in?
Wouldn't that be a betrayal of something they together swore their whole lives to?

I completely agree with what he said about that vacant clown Julius Malema as well. Man, that boy needed some kind of hiding when he was younger...*sigh* What an embarrassment.

Maybe I'm gullible. Maybe I'm being caught up in drama?
Maybe i just really love a good story and always hope for the happy ending.

Oh i don't know... politics are always messy and it's tough to find someone i completely agree with in day-to-day "real" life, let alone a whole party or a political leader.

Anyways. It's a good feeling to find more than one politician who inspires me even for a few minutes in my day... and in the last while I've found 3.

Perhaps this break-away party will be more of the same ol' "closed patronage party seeking the spoils of office". Perhaps Barack Obama will be a let down and topple off the pedestal that he's managed to climb so quickly onto in the eye's of millions across the world...

OR maybe not.

Hey, there may yet be more Mandela's... maybe we're becoming depressed and disillusioned and not looking hard enough to give some people credit they deserve.
All we can really do is give honest thought to our votes and watch the direction we're lead towards by our instincts and from observing the chess-moves happening all around us.
Try to at least be excited by these interesting times!

on the note of stories:
(via swiss miss)
You might not be a supporter of Obama, but you might appreciate a typographic waterfall by Jonathan Hoefler.