Conspiracy or stupidity
With violence riddling
the streets of the once beautiful South Africa with Xenophobia, with senseless
murders of White Farmers and widespread black on black murders in the poverty
stricken areas, with a government blaming everybody but themselves, the poverty
increase and jobs are lost daily.
Investors are
withdrawing their investments, and companies move out of the range of violent
strikes during wage negotiations. Neighbouring countries recall their
ambassadors in protest against the Xenophobic attacks on their citizens, their
protest can be well founded if the history that passed the black censor pen of
the ANC , come to the foreground, in the
fact that the same people that assist the ANC to end apartheid is the people
now slayed in the streets. One look at the farm murders 7000 since 1994, where
farmers are raped mutilated and killed for a few Rand left in their wallets; we
see the brutal murders in the townships where political supporters kill
supporters of other beliefs. But then your eyes turn across the burning tyres,
the bodies and grieving families and come to rest on the man that lead these
people in silence, a silence that sound like approval, you see the man that needs
to clinch to his position as president to avoid criminal prosecution for his
criminal activities under the protection of voters that believed and still
believe that he will save them from poverty. As my eyes rest on the pathetic
figure through the thick smoke and blood stained windows of farmers and black
townships the once important question of competency become a new question of
conspiracy a question of greed and power.
My mind entangle in
the soviet like story told by events following each other to create total chaos
in the streets, events that spell the possible end of freedom by the same
people who shed blood to achieve it over the years, I see the celebration of
freedom day from behind the bars needed to protect the citizens against
uncontrollable crime, the celebrations of peace while leaders shed the blame onto
anyone but themselves, words that justify the killing of a foreigner in
Johannesburg because his immigration papers were not in order. I listen to the
words that condemn and justify in the same sentence, words that contradict each
other to stimulate the dangerous mob mentality.
The questions in my mind want to prove that stupidity is the cause but
the reality forces me to ask the question differently. Through the thick smoke
I can see the man with the red beret his left hand clinch to the machete, under
his red overall, that want to slice through the last strings that keep the
state governable, the words coming from his mouth condemn the violence, his
sentence does not stop there it continue with the description of the forceful
removal of white supremacy, the destruction of history. His words excite the
rent a crowd that he promised food if they listen to him. They all dance as he
sings “kiss the Boer” the excitement drive them to believe, to the believe that
they can take what they need from the white citizens, they believe that their
poverty is no more, that the food he fed them the words of encouragement to
violence solved the poverty. But as they leave and drive to their government
created shacks they must realise that there is no work tomorrow, that there is
no money coming in.
My mind slip to the
laughing man in parliament as opposition leaders condemn his actions, as they
accuse him of misconduct and I cannot help to replace the question of stupidity
with a question of planned stupidity. We are waiting for his response for his explanation
but he talked in riddles he remain silent.
We witnessed the
petition of farmers, the cry from social media to stop the killing, but he remains
silent. We see how students try to antagonise white people by breaking down all
the historical monuments but he remains silent. When the xenophobic attacks
break out we wait for his response but he only respond days later with not much
more that silence.
The new question that
sings round my ears is; how can you become lifelong president? In my quest for
an answer my eyes turn to the fastest declining economy in the decade, I see Mugabe
with gold on his fingers, I see how the people in his country fled to South
Africa to find means to feed their family, where the Zimbabwe Dollar has become
cheaper than toilette paper and I wonder if this answer my question, I wonder
if the instability in the country contributed to his long term of presidency.
If this is the truth
then I wonder if Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma are not working together, if
their master plan does not involve instability, if the silence of our President
is not a quiet approval of his once close comrade Julius.
So the question
remain, do they destroy the country and her economy due to stupidity or is it a
conspiracy?
