SCALING JUSTICE

Written 7th February 2019

Whoopee-wee and well done to the custodians of integrity and the rule of law, arresting Humpty Dumpty and the middle-markers for corruption and who knows what all. And thus in one foul swoop, sending a clear message to any other wannabe whistleblowers that you open your mouth to the detriment of politicians and the prime-evils, you go straight to jail, do not collect two hundred and do not pass go, while the self-same hoodlums and public coffer plunderers go tap-dancing into a guilt gilded sunset, to pillage and plunder another day.

And, you might ask, what happened to What’s On at Bosasa - and his cohorts? Well Surreal gave him his money back, didn’t he? After he worked out if it went to junior or daddum’s campaigning collective - and only after being busted in the public domain. Seems our new silver-tongued speeder has at least learnt a few things from his predecessor - like how to make potential big-mouthed threateners run for distant hills for fear of retribution.

And now with elections around the corner, these same but different hoodlums sneak seductively behind the cloaked mirage of ‘democracy’. I ask you, what is this big democracy thing? Does it in fact actually exist? One thing is sure, in the Western world, it sure doesn’t. Rule in ‘the free world’ is little different from the most malignant of feudal systems, apart from name - and the titles bequeathed on new fangled kings.

Moral incompetence threatens not only South Africa, not only Africa but our entire planet. And the only way to protect our global societies, it seems, would be to purge politics of politicians, and probably people of power from the spotlights of control. Instead of conjuring up witch-hunts stigmatised by regurgitated spin, our so-called leaders should be focusing on the bigger picture. The challenges facing us today are not issues of race, culture or religion - intolerance is a symptom, not the cause. It has everything to do with the exponentially growing divide between rich and poor of all races, cultures and creeds. And as long as the ‘have' puppet-masters in their ivory towers continue to incite the masses into hollering about contrived and orchestrated 2nd tier issues, our world will continue to flounder and fall.

Here are a few facts...

Regarding expropriation: ‘Occupy is a great sentiment for the occupier, a threatening one for the occupied. History shows us time and time again, that sustainable peace and progress rarely emerges from stances of antagonism. When under threat, options inevitably degrade to fight or flight, and middle ground becomes no mans land... We need to meet on middle ground, not occupy it - and convince the world that the swelling voices of change are of rationality, reason and salvation, and not the frenetically charged rantings of a lunatic fringe, as generally perceived.

Regarding the disadvantaged: The poor cannot cure poverty, the hungry cannot feed the starving, the illiterate cannot address education. Again, we do not need to occupy, overthrow or dethrone. We need to engage, converse and convince - for like the weather, the world and its ways, calamity does not discriminate. And as Libya, Egypt and most the Arab world so clearly illustrated not too long ago, we all stand together we will overcome, and if not and we fall, we will all fall together... Nkosi Sikelele Afrika.