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Wednesday, January 31, 2007S'AFRIKEN MENTALITY The South African government has had another sludgewave (as opposed to brainwave) with regard to smoking, and will attempt to push through even more anti-smoking laws. Two of these caught my attention:Smokers will not be able to light up (i.e. smoking will be against the law) within 5m of an entrance to a shopping mall, and Smokers will not be allowed to smoke in their own homes if they employ a maid/domestic worker who does not smoke. On the first point......er.....well.........smoking has been outlawed in shopping malls & public places etc. for a few years now. Restaurants are staunchly segregated into non-smoking & smoking areas. Whenever a smoker like me has been shopping, the first thing I do upon exiting sed mall, is light up a fag. Now it seems, I'll have to walk a bit further away from a mall entrance/exit. Oh well, no sweat - I don't mind doing that. On the second point, I do have a major problem. If it is MY property, I am entitled to smoke. If the property is rented & there is a clause stating the house is to be rented to non-smokers, then by all means I would respect that. BUT, as I've said, if the property is MY own, then I'm entitled to do as I wish. If I employ a maid/domestic worker, I will have to discriminate (don'tcha just love that word?) against a perfectly capable non-smoking person, who may (or may not) be desperately seeking employment. I wonder how many currently employed maids will find themselves unemployed should the government bulldoze this law through parliament? The Minister of health - Dokotela Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is the laughing stock of the civilised medical world, as she proclaims that HIV/AIDS can be cured by eating beetroot, garlic & potatoes. South Africa currently has the scary statistic of 11% of the population as being infected with HIV. It's OK to sodomise a 3wk old baby boy, rape anything that doesn't slither & chop up various family members because local sangomas inform the masses that it will appease the spirits & get rid of the nasty disease called AIDS, but God forbid you should light up a cigarette on your home turf. Dokotela Manto Tshabalala-Msimang needs to EDUCATE the people of SA. Educate people about HIV & AIDS. Educate people about DRUG abuse. Educate people about ALCOHOL abuse. Educate people about SEXUAL abuse. When you've done that you stupid woman, maybe, just maybe I'll pay a nanosecond of attention to your pathetic bloody anti-smoking laws. And on that note, I shall light up my Nth Gauloises Blonde of the day & I shall bloody well enjoy it!   
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