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| | Par:- Nazim Esoof
On 29/09/2009 |
A la tribune des Nations Unies, vendredi dernier lors de la 64e assemblée générale des Nations Unies, à New York, Navin s’est transcendé au point de faire de l’ombre au patronyme Ramgoolam.
La duplicité des personnages politiques commande une lecture critique poussée de leurs performances oratoires. Car, souvent, ils y mettent la forme sans un véritable fond. D’ailleurs, le Premier ministre mauricien excelle dans cet art. Cela lui permet de briller au firmament médiatique et d’accroître la fascination qu’il exerce sur ses électeurs.
Mais à la tribune des Nations Unies, Navin n’a pas fait du Ramgoolam. En «César» de Maurice, il s’est adoubé d’une sagesse africaine qu’on ne lui connaissait pas. Il a parlé de l’Afrique, de l’Inde, de l’Amérique latine… Il a fait mention du terrorisme sans verser dans cette arrogance occidentale qui diabolise l’islam… Il a évoqué des grands principes démocratiques qui sont vides de sens s’il n’y a pas un respect de ces principes par ceux qui se réclament en être les gardiens… Il a encensé la pluriethnicité mauricienne et le pluriculturalisme mondial… Certes, il a exagéré sur la capacité de Maurice à gérer la crise financière mondiale… Mais, de manière générale, il est resté dans le ton.
Surtout, on retiendra que Navin l’Africain convainc davantage que Ramgoolam le politicard.
Ceci dit, il ne faut pas oublier que Navin Ramgoolam est le principal architecte du carrousel des chimères à Maurice. Personne ne peut mieux que lui entraîner une bonne partie de la population dans les espérances oniriques d’un mieux-être. En 100 jours, il peut changer votre vie…
D’ailleurs, c’est à se demander désormais quelle formule il pourra inventer alors qu’il a fini d’épuiser son stock des promesses ultimes!
C’est précisément lorsqu’il franchit les limites de nos côtes et qu’il se pose en chef de gouvernement d’un Etat insulaire aspirant à avoir un rayonnement régional que Navin esquisse une nouvelle promesse d’avenir.
Reste, à présent, à savoir comment Navin Ramgoolam va profiter de ce capital une fois rentré à Maurice?
Généralement, lorsqu’il revient au pays, tout auréolé de ses rencontres avec les grands de ce monde, il trône dans des hauteurs qui lui permettent de relativiser les psychodrames nationaux.
Mais cette posture est éphémère. Bien vite, il va s’imaginer des complots de la presse écrite indépendante. Il pensera qu’il est le seul à pouvoir occuper le poste de Premier ministre. Ou encore que personne ne reconnaît ses mérites. Et enfin, il se laisser séduire par les sirènes sectaires qui font miroiter l’étendue de son pouvoir.
Pour notre part, on préférera qu’il nous ramène le Navin sans le Ramgoolam. Car celui-là fait honneur au pays. | |
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| Noel | | | Je ne sais qui a ecrit son discours. Mais celui-la a oublie que Navin est le fils de Seewoosague celui la-meme qui a brader Diego pour l'independance de Maurice et par la meme occasion delamteler le territoire mauricien. Et il a le culot aujourd'hui d'essayer de faire la lecon aux autres. Quel culot! | | | Eric | | | The PM would not have to play his trump card"le pere de la nation" to win the next election as MMM with Paul Berenger as leader are running round as headless chicken. | | | mary | | | Dans 100 jours line fine change nous la vie - backward bien sur! | | | patriot | | | There are people who excel in the art of convincing the common of mortals. Navin is good at selling his image to a gathering. Berenger has the ability to convince the common man of x on one day and the contrary of x on another day. Both men ignore that there are many thinking people around. Looking for convincing words is easy when one has a horde of advisors to think for them and prepare wonderful speeches. The exciting play of words. Look at Obama. He too has advisors but when he addresses his audience, he looks at them straight in the eyes and talks to them with his own brain and heart.
There is no point highlighting the many blunders of Berenger as PM. A sheer waste of time now. But let us look at some of the own initiatives of the actual PM right from the time of his taking office. His nominations at the helm of major institutions:
1. Ministries - Gokhool, Jeetah, Etienne, Tang, Gowreesoo, Bappoo: self explanatory.
2. Air Mauritius – Buckory, Veerasamy and later Ujodha: a real disaster for years ahead.
3. Airports of Mauritius – Ex-Chairman (can’t even recall his name) and Maraye: a waste of precious time for such a key sector.
4. Mtius Port Authority - Chadee and Philippe: simply shameful.
5. Bank of Mauritius – What a mess!
6. State Investment Corporation – Big money for no concrete results.
7. MBC/TV – no comment.
8. Enterprise Mauritius – A small big mouth who enjoys chasing off true professionals for mediocre individuals so he can rule upon them as His Majesty’s subjects. A filthy individual in quest of superiority.
9. ICAC saga with Air Mauritius. Whatever the ruling of one (re)tired Mauritian, thinking Mauritians have also ruled.
10. Allocation of state land, nominations overseas. The list can go on.
In the meantime, the mindset in the country is dangerously changing for the worst. The security of people in Mauritius is a daily nightmare. Our homes are no more secure from thieves. Our roads worst off. Kids are shamelessly abused by adults. Greed over-rules all other consideration at all levels, esp. among the rich. People should sleep or pray with wide-opened eyes. Principles, human values, quality of life – no one could not care less. ‘L’Enfer au paradis’. Si bien dit! But it is not the fault of Navin nor Ramgoolam anyway. Who's to blame then? ... Ok, let's rather have another speech in the mean time !
| | | Benjamin | | | Nice speech! Do we know who wrote it by the way??? It might be more believable if Navin could actually pronounce the word "DEVELOPMENT" correctly! Or is that synonymous with how he's also going to botch the actions on the road to Developing as well??? And was the timing of the speech his choice or was it imposed on him... given the fact that all actual World Leaders had already left at that time or had better things to do at the G20. At least he can't tell us now he was invited there to help them solve the world financial crisis! Or show them how to successfully get your country out of the black list of Small Island Tax Paradises! | | | Burn-it | | | Si le PM est capable de prononcer un tel discours à l'ONU, il est capable de le faire en toute occasion. En tenant (souvent) d'autres discours lorsqu'il se trouve à Maurice, cela reflète comment il estime ceux à qui il s'adresse... comme des ignorants, pour ne pas dire des imbéciles... | | | SPIN AND FLAME. | | | From: Spin and Flame.
How politicians should persuade
Navin sans le Ramgoolam. Righly said the top leader in Mauritius Establishment should endeavour to show intrinsic qualities and versatility in managing the affairs of the Republic. The speech of the prime minister at the United Nations can only be of positive leanings when the uniformity of thought and reflections apply first to the country, its people, and institutions. Showing the way during world leaders meeting is one thing, putting into practice those noble norms and concepts in one’s own territory look best. Too often the front window get most attention and care for display, but the behind the scene hides graveyard and misdemeanours. Plato's Rebuke to Politicians. We may ask ancient political commentators Cicero and Aristotle for their advice on how politicians should persuade. Cicero, remember, said that politicians should use every tool at their disposal to win friends and influence people. Aristotle admitted that emotional appeals could be as powerful as rational arguments. But Plato says, "Poppycock!"Plato was familiar with a great orator in his time--a man named Gorgias, who thought that anyone superbly trained in rhetoric could gain political power, just because he could speak and convince the masses. But Plato wasn't convinced. Here's why (and we're quoting him on this). Mr. Plato, Gorgias says there is no subject on which he cannot speak before a popular audience more persuasively than any professional. Is rhetoric really that powerful? "A popular audience means an ignorant audience, doesn't it? He won't be more convincing . . . before experts." Why not? "An ignorant person is more convincing than the expert before an equally ignorant audience. . . . It is enough for him to have discovered a knack of convincing the ignorant that he knows more than the experts." A knack? A knack for what? "Producing a kind of gratification and pleasure. . . . The generic name which I should give it is pandering." Why is it pandering? "Well, do you think that knowing and believing are the same, or is there a difference between knowledge and belief?” They’re different, no? "Quite right, and you can prove it like this. If you were asked whether there are such things as true and false beliefs, you would say that there are, no doubt. . . . But are there such things as true and false knowledge?” No. False knowledge isn't knowledge at all. "Then knowledge and belief are clearly not the same thing. . . . Yet men who believe may be just as properly called convinced as men who know. . . . May we posit then the existence of two kinds of conviction, one which gives knowledge and one which gives belief without knowledge?" Sure, let's posit. "Now which kind of conviction about right and wrong is created by oratory in courts of law and elsewhere, the kind which engenders knowledge or the kind which engenders belief without knowledge? . . . . The orator doesn't teach juries and other bodies about right and wrong--he merely persuades them." So what would be a better way? In my view, oratory is a spurious counterfeit of a branch of the art of government. What branch is that? The administration of justice. . . . The difference is that pandering pays no regard to the welfare of its object, but catches fools with the bait of ephemeral pleasure. . . . It makes pleasure its aim instead of good. Are today's politician’s panderers, then, or true administrators of justice? Do the speakers in your opinion make it the constant aim of their speeches to improve their fellow citizens as much as possible, or do they too set out merely to gratify their hearers, sacrificing the public interest to their own personal success, and treating their audience like children? Uh, you're putting us on the spot here. What do you say? "There are two kinds of political oratory, one of them is pandering and base claptrap; only the other is good, which aims at the edification of the souls of the citizens and is always striving to say what is best, whether it be welcome or unwelcome to the ears of the audience. But I don't believe that you have ever experienced the second type.
| | | ABDOOLAH | | | SAJ meme ti ti dire, tire nom ramgoolam are li pas resse narien. | | | CT Zen | | | Navin aurait fait un tres bon ministre des AE uniquement mais Maurice recherche desesperement un leader pour s'epanouir. | | | Sitoi Yen | | | Actions speak louder than words. Mais ar Navin action 0. pendant 4 annees au pouvoir gagner a travers les promesses qu'on connait tous, 100 jours change ou lavie,etc..rien de tel, Le mauricien est reste sur sa faim, le transport est bel est bien gratuit pour les senoirs et etudiants mais a quel prix ? Developpement economique toujours 0. Quel Bilan ? on parle beaucoup de renouveau et changement de strategie au MMM, mais au Ptr, a part Navin qui porte le nom de son pere et n'a pas d'adversaire ideale selon les formules du present systeme electorale, Qui est ou sont les competences qui l'entoure a part peut-etre Rama Sithanen ? Quelles sont les realisations de son govt ? Quel added value a-t-il apporter de plus que le precedent govt a realise en 5 ans (ecoles,sea-food hub,ICT island, IRS project). ? "Roder boute" politique communale et petits copains, lev paker aler, fiasco totale dans les institutions cles du pays (air mtius,stc,CEB,Icac,le port,etc) martele lapresse et de nombreux scandales lies aux corruptions institutionalise.. a vous de juger "lepep admirab" | |
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