Doing it by the numbers...

75% of all statistics are made up.
53.2% of all made up statistics are not 100% incorrect.
0.0346% of all quoted statistics that are used in support of a proposition are later checked by the receiving party.
0% however, are checked by the alleging party.

Have a gander through these stats and make up your own mind.

The Springboks won 67% of all games played during Jake White´s coaching tenure. The highest win ratio, during this tenure, per annum was 82% in 2007. During this period they lost 66% of their games against the All Blacks, 75% against France, and 50% against Ireland.



Jacob Zuma has had 50% of all charges he faces go to trial. He has a 100% non-conviction rate of all charges faced at trial. He showers after 67% of all sexual encounters, and 43% of those can be described as consensually indeterminate.

7.2 yard comfortably...

Tombrady completes 63% of all the passes he makes, at an average of 7.2 yards per pass. Tombrady misses 100% of the passes he doesn´t throw, Tombrady never chooses not to pass and so Tombrady never misses. Tombrady sleeps with 102.5% of the women he chooses to sleep with. 99.9% of those women are supermodels. 0.01% of those women will be supermodels. Number of tv adverts Peyton Manning has featured in this season, 98.7%.

5 out of 5 is a hundred...

The average life expectancy of a Chuck Norris enemy combatant is 4 seconds. The average salary of a WWE wrestler is $47 500/annum, the average salary of these wrestlers per hour if wrestling didn´t exist, $4.25.

4 second before imminent death...

The number of South African households surviving on less than R1000/month, 43%. The number of ANC MPs that prefer the oaken taste of J&B Jet over Jameson 12year old, 67%. The number of MPs that attended over 80% of Parliamentary sessions since 2005, 12.3%. The number that were at any one time in a first world country playing craps in the hotel´s casino, 53%. The number that were at the hotel bar listening to the piano, drinking 12 year old whiskey, after losing all their travel vouchers at the craps table, 47%.

Craps.

Fact.

More than 100 out of 430 odd MPs are being investigated by the Scorpions for travel fraud.
SAPS conviction rate of all investigated matter that went to trial in 2007: 19%
Scorpions conviction rate of all matters brought to trial 93%.

Question:

Does it seem counter-intuitive that the people with the power to vote for the disbandment of an investigatory body are the same people who are currently being investigated by that body?

Business Hugh Glenister brought an application to the court yesterday in an attempt to halt the process described above. The court, and rightfully so, found that his issue was not, in a sense, ripe yet and that the court is not a tool to turn to when people need recourse to avert political inappropriateness. The doctrine of separation of powers separates the judicial powers from leaking into the realm of the executive and theses judicial powers can only appear after an unsavory political move. The court is not weapon to be used in political battles, political wars need to be fought with political weapons.

However, this system is presupposed by an efficient multi-party democracy, not a one party state that keeps its electorate unfed and uneducated and themselves in power. Maybe a strong opposition will change this...

Percentage of people excited by Comrade Lekota and Shilowa...? You make that up...