The Passing African

Like many other Swazi born man, I grew up a strong supporter of the traditional structures that govern many an African rural people who still can actually experience the joy( or is it the horror ) of living under such structures.

It is true; much of what is an African today is not what yester-year’s African was. We are for the most part African because we still go and fetch fire wood from the bushes to light up and enjoy our at times cold scary nights. Our mothers are still the trucks we use to fetch the woods-to my horror they are proud of it-and our boys are still very keen for a good hunt and need no excuse for doing it. Most of the town folks African-ness however, is long gone.

All we have left is simply our poor skin color-all black and never present.

Most would find the above sentence offensive but I do think if you would invite an eighteenth century Anthropologist into today’s Africa and ask him to study us; he would most likely find it difficult to reconcile today’s African-ness with that of yesterday.  I believe the poor white bearded, baldy fellah would, for the most part class us white because most of who we are now is who white men were fifty if not a hundred and fifty years ago.

If I had the mean to do so, I would buy you a plane ticket and invite you to come live with me at Ntumbane in KwaZulu-Natal, south-east of Africa. I am sorry but the very first thing you would see when you leave that plane is one very world classy airport called King Shaka International Airport. It is modern in all things modern and lacks nothing but a proper English name. On your way to my place you would be tempted into the comforts of many a western styled homes and hovels. My hovel is also one of the many other poor-and at times excellent excuses for a proper Zulu tribe man’s home. It is a one housed homestead with a large spacious yard, a tap for water and a banana tree for shelter. At its center is one very ugly looking seven roomed excuse for a Zulu man’s house western hovel. In short, we no longer sleep on reed mattresses spread on cow dung smeared floors, dear me, we now own proper soft beds that would render and westerner speechless in beauty and heartless in covetousness.

Sure we still have our umhlanga-reed dance ceremony, Incwala-ritual of the first fruit and many more other African rituals but even they are tainted with western elements. Incwala and Umhlanga are very good examples of this. Incwala’s wakeup call used to be made using lipondvo lenkhonkhoni (the eland’s horn); today we use the Tuba instead. The virgins who attend umhlanga  used wear attire woven in grass; today’s attire though not drastically deviating from the traditional design, is made from full color western cloth. The women regiment-lutsango- of yesterday wore goat hide skirts adorned in red beaded belts with cow hide beautifully overlapping the skirts. Our mothers now have fashioned nets for the head and skirts made of black towel like material as an excuse for the tidvwaba (skirts).

Swazi man wear shirts above their emajobo (loin skins) and the Zulu wear trousers right to the heart of their Kings Incwala and with no shame on them, those who wear truly olden day’s attire wear undies as well. A very big no, no to us.

It is obvious that times have changed. And because of this we as a part of the human species need to move on with the times. My main concern here is that we African Swazi, Zulu or whatsoever you call yourself are moving rather too fast. We are shedding the skin so quickly I am afraid we will end up killing ourselves in the process. The west changed but was their change this drastic?

I do not know the answer but I hope we do not end up fading into legend as did the Celts and Teutonic of old.

Good luck African. 

        

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Finally Got The White Man's Ice Cream, Now watch us Eat it in the Dust.

Please note; a part of this post is a continuation of the previous post.

Those born to become South Africa’s 1970s youth looked at the future in pain but the very real promise of  joy in their hearts. The June 16 1976 youth uprising , culminating with the death of the young boy-hector Peterson- helped put the plight of South Africans, and by extension Southern Africans right in the world’s centre stage. Journalist, and news agencies were forced to look at this ‘separate development’ puppy in new light-or is it the light they ignored?. They were forced see it as the monster it was. As such the regime of time could no longer afford to sell their experimental and ideal society to its military and economic allies. The final fruits of  the South Africa British Company were falling from the tree and no one wanted to pick them up and eat them.

Because of this the South African government of the time conceded defeat and called the African National Congress onto the sitting room and therein chattered the future of not just South Africa but that Southern Africa as a whole.

Unfortunately it was not everyone who was in the discussion room. As such much of the battles were won but the war was lost. Consider the fact that much of black man’s ideal leaders were born under the old government. They wanted a bright future and to many of them that future was futile if the regime went on standing. They wanted the white man’s ice cream so much that they felt compelled- and in truth morally compelled-to fight for at least a lick. In Mandela’s Long walk to freedom we notice that to the believers of the struggle, the freedom ice cream was not a distant futile dream but was rather something tangible and achievable; all they had to do was fight until they get it.

For parties such as was the IFP however, the whole affair was rather too drastic even in the short term. They had come to Gauteng not for a long fight with the whites but to work in the mines so as to feed their families who were living on quite untamable land; a land they could not farm and thus have enough food from. Their cattle was nothing but a shadow of what it once was because of live stock tax and farm rent. Even my grandfather’s dog was liable to tax. The government saw these and exploited it to the fullest possible level. War broke out and brother killed brother not really because of ideals but rather because of  the other’s need to feed his family now, not postponing it to a future non them both could be certain off.

Fast forward to today and you will see a different South Africa. We have achieved at least one very important opportunity. The opportunity to express our abilities and to chase the dreams we each dream each night. Unfortunately we did not only lost the war but we lost our once upon a time ideal leaders. Some went to death, some lived on and some disappeared into the gutters of parliament, parties and greed.

Off all of them, I worry most about those who went into parliament and into parties. This are the ones we elected and gave them a chance to govern over us not just as a country but as people. As beings; individuals who think  and feel.

Following is a list of things why they worry me.

Ø Do they know what parliament is

We know what parliament is; that big house in Pretoria where on whose parking lot black cars park and big men walk out into every now and again.

As a result, these men become very wealthy and grow a bit too much by their stomachs and little else. We the ordinary still remember what parliament is. It that in 90 Plein Street, in whose spacious room my people’s representatives gain means by which to upgrade my peoples’ lives from this shameful tokenism to real live ice cream and cheese onto the breakfast table each day every day. Have these members of parliament forgotten this simple promise?

Parliament is not for debate. It is for finding means by which the people they represent can be able to provide for themselves and live.

Ø They serve themselves

It seems-well at least to me-the so called parliamentarians (is parliament a country?) help us only to generate more votes for themselves and the parties they serve us under. This they do by various tactics but the most useful and widely usable is that of tickling of  the people’s ears; that is to speak and tell the people what they like to here and not the truth. The ANC is partially a good example of this. Seven years ago, they were forced to remove the former president Mbeki from the presidential office. There are allegations that Zuma had something to do with it…I dare say I have my doubts here- but he was removed and Zuma went into office. He gave some very much needed stability to the country and stopped the polarization that was soon going to render the country ungovernable. Mbeki was a strong believer of the African spirit. As such the primary concern of his thoughts was on stabilizing Africa as a whole. It therefore came easy for him to work with countries as a mediator in their political and economical problems.

Zuma, my president followed suit and was as such instrumental in stabilizing Zimbabwe and Lesotho.  Unlike Mbeki, Zuma has not achieved much in terms of  economics, his primary concern is rather  sociological. He has started the Zuma Foundation and some agricultural concerns. H e tried his hand at developing rural towns…His start and end was Inkadla. We were all happy but it was not for long. In 2014 Inkandla turned from being the Zulu’s pride to his shame. Zuma upgraded his home from an unknown value up to R240 million.  It was a noose but it is one noose that made him very rich, at least for now.

Malema, the Commander in chief of EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) is also questionable when money is invited into the house. He was once a very firm supporter of Mr. Zuma. He made the mistake of speaking and questioning very sensitive land politics out in the open and as a result was ejected by the ANC and slammed with a hefty tax evasion scandal from nowhere. He then started the EFF and came back into parliament as the ANC and president Zuma’s arch enemy number one, rendering our parliament ungovernable. The EFF is full of youth, youth that ask very relevant questions but are these questions born of genuine need to serve the people or are they simply personal?

Ø They protect each other.

I am sure Mandela never approved of the South Africa of 2012. Marikana saw a slaughter of many a miners who had left their homes in hope of changing their breakfast into something they don’t just have to stomach to survive another day but something they can actually enjoy doing. The workers died at the hands of the law. This I assert because they were killed by the very thing that reminds us of the Law, the police. It might not seem so but this is a very deep thing. It touches at some pillars that were supposed to help prevent things such as the Marikana slaughter from happening.

One such pillar is in the person of our Vise President, Mr. Cyril Rhamaphosa. It is said that in his personal non presidential capacity Rhamaphosa-and many like him- was fitted into the country’s many business chambers so as to be the people’s watch dog. He was to help prevent questionable business maneuvers undertaken by business houses in their quest for more profit. He is very good in business, he always was but this, it seems ended up being his downfall from grace. The events unearthed by the Phalum Commission make him a questionable man. It not just him but also the new police commoner, Mrs. Rhea Phiega; Rhea asserts herself innocent but many do not see it that way. Her sending police to suppress the unlawful protest happening at Marikana is seen by some defenders of the miners as rather too military inspired. This resulted into people questioning her suitability for the office she presides over. The question is; can a it be wise that a Police Commissioner with no police background be allowed to actually exist?

What I find suspect is the over use of commissions to sift through the problems that this politically connected people seem to find themselves always in.

Are courts really ill-equipped for these problems or is it a way to protect each other much more fiercer when the time comes. One very good example of  this assertion of mine is what happened to Thuli Madonsela, South Africa’s most ideal public protector-well to us the general public any ways.

Ma Thuli made the mistake of investigating, finding out the truth without favor and laying that truth all down on T.V. The President’s noose (Nkandla upgrades) had no choice but to be seen as one very dirty napkin hung out to dry in the sun at noon. She found quite a lot of maladministration in the security upgrades…Africa’s best read, The Mail and Guardian reports that “Officials and even cabinet ministers broke the rules to please Number One” (Mail and Guardian 20 March 2014, by Sarah Evans).

It took Madonsela two years to investigate Nkandla…After telling the public what she found, Madonsela was crucified even up to the point of  being called a spy agent working in South Africa for the CIA.  A parliamentary committee set to sift the Nkandla issue. In its draft statement it says “The remedial action of the public protector in not binding” It also says “The president did not request the upgrades”…

In short the committee found Zuma blameless in all this mess. It is an interesting take on the matter, especially because the committee was made of  many ANC MPs. Zuma and in extension the ANC were being pulled out of this ugly shitty pit but they had to do so from various angles. Lucky enough they knew their power and manipulated it well. The DA lost yet another battle and in many a peoples’ eyes. Black man still held the ice cream.

Earlier this year the EFF laid another trap. They played their chess piece and held Parliament spell bound under its pay back the money demand. The Speaker of the House of Assembly was flexed her much cherished muscle and dragged Malema and his friends out. As a result their Zupta Must Fall chant was born and very much revived the struggle against Zuma. The DA pushed for impeachment of the president and the Guptas lost business in the country and fled to Dubai. The cards were all well played but the desired result ended up being as elusive as is our Lord’s coming back. The DA needed parliament to get rid of Zuma. The vote from the ANC MPs proved a mightier blow than public opinion. Zuma was saved this way and so long as the ANC remains in power this will remain so. The ANC president electing mechanism guarantees this simple fact.  

         

Even though South Africa is currently undergoing economic difficulties, I do believe it will be possible for it ward them off and go on prospering. I am worried though that the current cabinet is very in-adequate. I hope Mbeki picks himself up and try save the country and I do hope that the Afrikaners stand their ground not as Europeans but as Africans who happen to be white.

Sources:

1.The Nkandla issues http://mg.co.za/article/2014-03-19-madonsela-exposes-the-rot-at-the-heart-of-nkandla#

2. http://m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/Politics/Madonselas-Nkandla-findings-not-binding-commitee-20141030

Africa ThinksThanks for reading

Please note; a part of this post is a continuation of the previous post.

Those born to become South Africa’s 1970s youth looked at the future in pain but the very real promise of  joy in their hearts. The June 16 1976 youth uprising , culminating with the death of the young boy-hector Peterson- helped put the plight of South Africans, and by extension Southern Africans right in the world’s centre stage. Journalist, and news agencies were forced to look at this ‘separate development’ puppy in new light-or is it the light they ignored?. They were forced see it as the monster it was. As such the regime of time could no longer afford to sell their experimental and ideal society to its military and economic allies. The final fruits of  the South Africa British Company were falling from the tree and no one wanted to pick them up and eat them.

Because of this the South African government of the time conceded defeat and called the African National Congress onto the sitting room and therein chattered the future of not just South Africa but that Southern Africa as a whole.

Unfortunately it was not everyone who was in the discussion room. As such much of the battles were won but the war was lost. Consider the fact that much of black man’s ideal leaders were born under the old government. They wanted a bright future and to many of them that future was futile if the regime went on standing. They wanted the white man’s ice cream so much that they felt compelled- and in truth morally compelled-to fight for at least a lick. In Mandela’s Long walk to freedom we notice that to the believers of the struggle, the freedom ice cream was not a distant futile dream but was rather something tangible and achievable; all they had to do was fight until they get it.

For parties such as was the IFP however, the whole affair was rather too drastic even in the short term. They had come to Gauteng not for a long fight with the whites but to work in the mines so as to feed their families who were living on quite untamable land; a land they could not farm and thus have enough food from. Their cattle was nothing but a shadow of what it once was because of live stock tax and farm rent. Even my grandfather’s dog was liable to tax. The government saw these and exploited it to the fullest possible level. War broke out and brother killed brother not really because of ideals but rather because of  the other’s need to feed his family now, not postponing it to a future non them both could be certain off.

Fast forward to today and you will see a different South Africa. We have achieved at least one very important opportunity. The opportunity to express our abilities and to chase the dreams we each dream each night. Unfortunately we did not only lost the war but we lost our once upon a time ideal leaders. Some went to death, some lived on and some disappeared into the gutters of parliament, parties and greed.

Off all of them, I worry most about those who went into parliament and into parties. This are the ones we elected and gave them a chance to govern over us not just as a country but as people. As beings; individuals who think  and feel.

Following is a list of things why they worry me.

Ø Do they know what parliament is

We know what parliament is; that big house in Pretoria where on whose parking lot black cars park and big men walk out into every now and again.

As a result, these men become very wealthy and grow a bit too much by their stomachs and little else. We the ordinary still remember what parliament is. It that in 90 Plein Street, in whose spacious room my people’s representatives gain means by which to upgrade my peoples’ lives from this shameful tokenism to real live ice cream and cheese onto the breakfast table each day every day. Have these members of parliament forgotten this simple promise?

Parliament is not for debate. It is for finding means by which the people they represent can be able to provide for themselves and live.

Ø They serve themselves

It seems-well at least to me-the so called parliamentarians (is parliament a country?) help us only to generate more votes for themselves and the parties they serve us under. This they do by various tactics but the most useful and widely usable is that of tickling of  the people’s ears; that is to speak and tell the people what they like to here and not the truth. The ANC is partially a good example of this. Seven years ago, they were forced to remove the former president Mbeki from the presidential office. There are allegations that Zuma had something to do with it…I dare say I have my doubts here- but he was removed and Zuma went into office. He gave some very much needed stability to the country and stopped the polarization that was soon going to render the country ungovernable. Mbeki was a strong believer of the African spirit. As such the primary concern of his thoughts was on stabilizing Africa as a whole. It therefore came easy for him to work with countries as a mediator in their political and economical problems.

Zuma, my president followed suit and was as such instrumental in stabilizing Zimbabwe and Lesotho.  Unlike Mbeki, Zuma has not achieved much in terms of  economics, his primary concern is rather  sociological. He has started the Zuma Foundation and some agricultural concerns. H e tried his hand at developing rural towns…His start and end was Inkadla. We were all happy but it was not for long. In 2014 Inkandla turned from being the Zulu’s pride to his shame. Zuma upgraded his home from an unknown value up to R240 million.  It was a noose but it is one noose that made him very rich, at least for now.

Malema, the Commander in chief of EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) is also questionable when money is invited into the house. He was once a very firm supporter of Mr. Zuma. He made the mistake of speaking and questioning very sensitive land politics out in the open and as a result was ejected by the ANC and slammed with a hefty tax evasion scandal from nowhere. He then started the EFF and came back into parliament as the ANC and president Zuma’s arch enemy number one, rendering our parliament ungovernable. The EFF is full of youth, youth that ask very relevant questions but are these questions born of genuine need to serve the people or are they simply personal?

Ø They protect each other.

I am sure Mandela never approved of the South Africa of 2012. Marikana saw a slaughter of many a miners who had left their homes in hope of changing their breakfast into something they don’t just have to stomach to survive another day but something they can actually enjoy doing. The workers died at the hands of the law. This I assert because they were killed by the very thing that reminds us of the Law, the police. It might not seem so but this is a very deep thing. It touches at some pillars that were supposed to help prevent things such as the Marikana slaughter from happening.

One such pillar is in the person of our Vise President, Mr. Cyril Rhamaphosa. It is said that in his personal non presidential capacity Rhamaphosa-and many like him- was fitted into the country’s many business chambers so as to be the people’s watch dog. He was to help prevent questionable business maneuvers undertaken by business houses in their quest for more profit. He is very good in business, he always was but this, it seems ended up being his downfall from grace. The events unearthed by the Phalum Commission make him a questionable man. It not just him but also the new police commoner, Mrs. Rhea Phiega; Rhea asserts herself innocent but many do not see it that way. Her sending police to suppress the unlawful protest happening at Marikana is seen by some defenders of the miners as rather too military inspired. This resulted into people questioning her suitability for the office she presides over. The question is; can a it be wise that a Police Commissioner with no police background be allowed to actually exist?

What I find suspect is the over use of commissions to sift through the problems that this politically connected people seem to find themselves always in.

Are courts really ill-equipped for these problems or is it a way to protect each other much more fiercer when the time comes. One very good example of  this assertion of mine is what happened to Thuli Madonsela, South Africa’s most ideal public protector-well to us the general public any ways.

Ma Thuli made the mistake of investigating, finding out the truth without favor and laying that truth all down on T.V. The President’s noose (Nkandla upgrades) had no choice but to be seen as one very dirty napkin hung out to dry in the sun at noon. She found quite a lot of maladministration in the security upgrades…Africa’s best read, The Mail and Guardian reports that “Officials and even cabinet ministers broke the rules to please Number One” (Mail and Guardian 20 March 2014, by Sarah Evans).

It took Madonsela two years to investigate Nkandla…After telling the public what she found, Madonsela was crucified even up to the point of  being called a spy agent working in South Africa for the CIA.  A parliamentary committee set to sift the Nkandla issue. In its draft statement it says “The remedial action of the public protector in not binding” It also says “The president did not request the upgrades”…

In short the committee found Zuma blameless in all this mess. It is an interesting take on the matter, especially because the committee was made of  many ANC MPs. Zuma and in extension the ANC were being pulled out of this ugly shitty pit but they had to do so from various angles. Lucky enough they knew their power and manipulated it well. The DA lost yet another battle and in many a peoples’ eyes. Black man still held the ice cream.

Earlier this year the EFF laid another trap. They played their chess piece and held Parliament spell bound under its pay back the money demand. The Speaker of the House of Assembly was flexed her much cherished muscle and dragged Malema and his friends out. As a result their Zupta Must Fall chant was born and very much revived the struggle against Zuma. The DA pushed for impeachment of the president and the Guptas lost business in the country and fled to Dubai. The cards were all well played but the desired result ended up being as elusive as is our Lord’s coming back. The DA needed parliament to get rid of Zuma. The vote from the ANC MPs proved a mightier blow than public opinion. Zuma was saved this way and so long as the ANC remains in power this will remain so. The ANC president electing mechanism guarantees this simple fact.  

         

Even though South Africa is currently undergoing economic difficulties, I do believe it will be possible for it ward them off and go on prospering. I am worried though that the current cabinet is very in-adequate. I hope Mbeki picks himself up and try save the country and I do hope that the Afrikaners stand their ground not as Europeans but as Africans who happen to be white.

Sources:

1.The Nkandla issues http://mg.co.za/article/2014-03-19-madonsela-exposes-the-rot-at-the-heart-of-nkandla#

2. http://m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/Politics/Madonselas-Nkandla-findings-not-binding-commitee-20141030

Thanks for reading

Finalay Got The White Man's Ice Cream, Watch us Eat it in the Sun

Those born to become South Africa’s 1970s youth looked at the future in pain but the very real promise of  joy in their hearts. The June 16 1976 youth uprising , culminating with the death of the young boy-hector Peterson- helped put the plight of South Africans, and by extension Southern Africans right in the world’s centre stage. Journalist, and news agencies were forced to look at this ‘separate development’ puppy in new light-or is it the light they ignored?. They were forced see it as the monster it was. As such the regime of time could no longer afford to sell their experimental and ideal society to its military and economic allies. The final fruits of  the South Africa British Company were falling from the tree and no one wanted to pick them up and eat them.

Because of this the South African government of the time conceded defeat and called the African National Congress onto the sitting room and therein chattered the future of not just South Africa but that Southern Africa as a whole.

Unfortunately it was not everyone who was in the discussion room. As such much of the battles were won but the war was lost. Consider the fact that much of black man’s ideal leaders were born under the old government. They wanted a bright future and to many of them that future was futile if the regime went on standing. They wanted the white man’s ice cream so much that they felt compelled- and in truth morally compelled-to fight for at least a lick. In Mandela’s Long walk to freedom we notice that to the believers of the struggle, the freedom ice cream was not a distant futile dream but was rather something tangible and achievable; all they had to do was fight until they get it.

For parties such as was the IFP however, the whole affair was rather too drastic even in the short term. They had come to Gauteng not for a long fight with the whites but to work in the mines so as to feed their families who were living on quite untamable land; a land they could not farm and thus have enough food from. Their cattle was nothing but a shadow of what it once was because of live stock tax and farm rent. Even my grandfather’s dog was liable to tax. The government saw these and exploited it to the fullest possible level. War broke out and brother killed brother not really because of ideals but rather because of  the other’s need to feed his family now, not postponing it to a future non them both could be certain off.

Fast forward to today and you will see a different South Africa. We have achieved at least one very important opportunity. The opportunity to express our abilities and to chase the dreams we each dream each night. Unfortunately we did not only lost the war but we lost our once upon a time ideal leaders. Some went to death, some lived on and some disappeared into the gutters of parliament, parties and greed.

Off all of them, I worry most about those who went into parliament and into parties. This are the ones we elected and gave them a chance to govern over us not just as a country but as people. As beings; individuals who think  and feel.

Following is a list of things why they worry me.

Ø Do they know what parliament is

We know what parliament is; that big house in Pretoria where on whose parking lot black cars park and big men walk out into every now and again.

As a result, these men become very wealthy and grow a bit too much by their stomachs and little else. We the ordinary still remember what parliament is. It that in 90 Plein Street, in whose spacious room my people’s representatives gain means by which to upgrade my peoples’ lives from this shameful tokenism to real live ice cream and cheese onto the breakfast table each day every day. Have these members of parliament forgotten this simple promise?

Parliament is not for debate. It is for finding means by which the people they represent can be able to provide for themselves and live.

Ø They seem to serve themselves

It seems-well at least to me-the so called parliamentarians (is parliament a country?) help us only to generate more votes for themselves and the parties they serve us under. This they do by various tactics but the most useful and widely usable is that of tickling of  the people’s ears; that is to speak and tell the people what they like to here and not the truth. The ANC is partially a good example of this. Seven years ago, they were forced to remove the former president Mbeki from the presidential office. There are allegations that Zuma had something to do with it…I dare say I have my doubts here- but he was removed and Zuma went into office. He gave some very much needed stability to the country and stopped the polarization that was soon going to render the country ungovernable. Mbeki was a strong believer of the African spirit. As such the primary concern of his thoughts was on stabilizing Africa as a whole. It therefore came easy for him to work with countries as a mediator in their political and economical problems.

Zuma, my president followed suit and was as such instrumental in stabilizing Zimbabwe and Lesotho.  Unlike Mbeki, Zuma has not achieved much in terms of  economics, his primary concern is rather  sociological. He has started the Zuma Foundation and some agricultural concerns. H e tried his hand at developing rural towns…His start and end was Inkadla. We were all happy but it was not for long. In 2014 Inkandla turned from being the Zulu’s pride to his shame. Zuma upgraded his home from an unknown value up to R250 million.  It was a noose but it is one noose that made him very rich, at least for now.

Malema, the Commander in chief of EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) is also questionable when money is invited into the house. He was once a very firm supporter of Mr. Zuma. He made the mistake of speaking and questioning very sensitive land politics out in the open and as a result was ejected by the ANC and slammed with a hefty tax evasion scandal from nowhere. He then started the EFF and came back into parliament as the ANC and president Zuma’s arch enemy number one, rendering our parliament ungovernable. The EFF is full of youth, youth that ask very relevant questions but are these questions born of genuine need to serve the people or are they simply personal?

Ø They protect each other at the average person’s expense

I am sure Mandela never approved of the South Africa of 2012. Marikana saw a slaughter of many a miners who had left their homes in hope of changing their breakfast into something they don’t just have to stomach to survive another day but something they can actually enjoy doing. The workers died at the hands of the law. This I assert because they were killed by the very thing that reminds us of the Law, the police. It might not seem so but this is a very deep thing. It touches at some pillars that were supposed to help prevent things such as the Marikana slaughter from happening.

One such pillar is in the person of our Vise President, Mr. Cyril Rhamaphosa. It is said that in his personal non presidential capacity Rhamaphosa-and many like him- was fitted into the country’s many business chambers so as to be the people’s watch dog. He was to help prevent questionable business maneuvers undertaken by business houses in their quest for more profit. He is very good in business, he always was but this, it seems ended up being his downfall from grace. The events unearthed by the Phalum Commission make him a questionable man. It not just him but also the new police commoner, Mrs. Rhea Phiega; Rhea asserts herself innocent but many do not see it that way. Her sending police to suppress the unlawful protest happening at Marikana is seen by some defenders of the miners as rather too military inspired. This resulted into people questioning her suitability for the office she presides over. The question is; can a it be wise that a Police Commissioner with no police background be allowed to actually exist?

What I find suspect is the over use of commissions to sift through the problems that this politically connected people seem to find themselves always in.

Are courts really ill-equipped for these problems or is it a way to protect each other much more fiercer when the time comes....

This post is unfortunately very much unfinished. Please waite for its soon to be finished brother...Next week Tuesday.