A golden opportunity

We currently live in a country, in a political landscape, in a social climate that presents itself daily with absolute proof that the current situation is a direct result of the last 24 years of Rainbow Governance.

A country where the policy of changing place names is seen as erasing the past.

A country where affirmative action has proven totally inoperative due to a culture of demand instead of free enterprise.

A system that has woefully failed to level the playing field in favor of the previously disadvantaged.

Not being able to deliver qualified replacement personnel to assume the tasks and positions to which you aspire.

An education system that lowers the bar to allow the masses to access tertiary education. Only to fail miserably and fall by the wayside bleating at the injustice that is often a direct result of their own incompetence, inflated expectations, and limited capabilities. Where those highly disillusioned individuals seek redress by burning down their learning institutions demonstrating their educated logical method of debate, negotiation, and reason.

We live in a country where role models are dragged daily before the courts, tribunals, investigations, judicial reviews and any other legal mechanism capable of exposing the system, being endemic, repeated during the last quarter of a century perpetrated. in biblical proportions of widespread corruption, self-enrichment and speculation with scant regard for their moral duty to the people and the position they occupied.

These role models are none other than the elected officials charged with the running of government, industry, our health services, police services, social services, education, the military, and a plethora of other institutes and entities.

This is a country that launched its freedom on the wings of a constitution that is the envy of the world, to make all men equal, all men free.

In the span of a quarter of a century, not the thousands of years that man’s footprints have graced the earth, you have only flouted that constitution, disparaged your flag, dishonored your kind.

You are responsible for your own death and you screech like trapped pigs now that time has curbed your greed and doomsday is upon you.

This is the country that cries late into the night over the injustices of apartheid and the effects of its impact.

This is akin to blaming my parents for flying out of the nest, failing on my own, failing, failing miserably, failing unforgivably, and claiming it was their fault for not acknowledging my own deliberate acts.

This is a country where those who are now under the microscope scream persecution and have the audacity to demand and often make the state pay their legal bills and thus the taxpayer to defend the vast fortunes stolen from them. segments of society that are asked but not told. they will have to pay.

This is a country, a government that has decided that land expropriation without compensation is the way forward. This is based on a dubious interpretation of the law, more out of political expediency than just government.

These exploits have put South Africa in the spotlight of the international community, in contravention of the international treaty that makes it illegal to expropriate land without compensation. A treaty to which South Africa is a signatory.

It is a fact that international investors will not invest in a country run by crooks who twist the constitution for their own ends. Similarly, it is a fact that countries require domestic investment to survive.

South Africa, you are a country that is waking up to the fact that under your very nose for the last 25 years of your history, your assets have been systematically raped and looted by a few who have the temerity to call themselves your leaders. .

You, as South Africans, have a lot to do.

Personally, you must eradicate this culture of expectation without effort or input on your part.

You have to evaluate yourself, critique your goals and lead a course.

Ask not what South Africa can do for you, ask what you can do for South Africa.

Publicly, the first thing you can do is throw off the yoke that shrinks your labors. Get rid of nepotism, the rampant and endemic criminality that is the high percentage of people you entrusted with your well-being.

Eliminate cancer as if it were the very essence of what your life depends on, and it does.

Reunite with the principles of the constitution by installing it back in its place of honor.

But more than this if you can grasp the belief and seize the moment, and only you can stop the disintegration into a banana republic run by criminal bloodsucking leeches.