Condom Nation

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Is it not an interesting topic for the birth of my blog...this whole condom debacle in South Africa?

For the second time in weeks our illustrious health minister has to explain how the SABS (South African Bureau of Standards) managed to approve millions of condoms not considered safe for consumation (not consumption Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang). It is thought that an employee at the SABS was bribed to allow these condoms to be passed. This is the second batch that has been identified as defective yet government clinics countrywide are not aware of this life threatening issue. Should we be surprised that this employee was bribed amidst the allegations against Mr Jacob Zuma and Jackie Selebi? In fact Vusi Pikoli, director of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), the only guy with the balls to take on the police commissioner gets fired by the president. Now come on Mr. Mbeki, what kind of message are you sending to criminals, potential criminals as well as the victims of these crimes?

Besides all of this, condoms that are actually safe are found dumped on the side of the road and the company responsible for their distribution is allegedly being traced. As a South African fed-up with the current allegations against our esteemed politicians and police commissioners and even more fed-up with their less than satisfactory reactions, I must feel that somewhere, somehow this distribution company is owned in some way by a fat-cat politician in local or national government or at the very least by a close member of their family. Remember how much trouble that rugby ou was in because his wife supplied catering services to Ellis Park?

To top it all off our extremely intelligent health minister anounces in an interview that people using these government-supplied condoms, must check them before using them in case they are faulty? She did not however elaborate on the procedure to follow when checking said condoms. The other option she gave is to report to a AIDS clinic if you think you have already used a condom from the faulty batches?

I must surmise from these comments that Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang uses an alternative form of contraception. Are you sure you don't want to advise people to eat African potato, lemon and garlic before/during/after they use the condoms because then even the faulty condoms will work? Your partner may still fall pregnant but according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang HIV/AIDS will not be contracted and in fact if you have the virus already it will probably be cured.

I wait with anticipation to see whether this debacle is actually sorted out or whether our government's very effective sweeper manages to get this dirt swept under the carpet with all the rest of the hidden and not so hidden agendas.

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