Last Post

 Dear Fellow South Africans 

So The Last Post is playing for the South African Post Office.

I am shocked.

I thought that had already happened some time ago. No-one should be surprised. It's not as if we didn't see the woolly mammoth in the room. Incompetence, poor leadership and management, sleeping at the wheel - surprisingly, they lead, without exception, to collapse. Our government clings to this model. 'Failed state' prophecies should not surprise us. None of this is political science 301. It's 'bite you in the butt' common sense.

Here's more. If you don't know how to do something, ask those who do. If your leaders and managers fail consistently, the enterprise will fail. Replace them. Poor performance is a good predictor of future poor performance. Arrest it. Before it's too late. Case in point.

It would be wrong to say that the ANC led government has failed miserably. 'Monumentally', 'abysmally', 'catastrophically' come to mind.

Singing, dancing, posturing and mouthing pious irrelevancies never fed anyone. I checked on Google.

The other woolly mammoth in the room is: who will go down first, this national albatross or South Africa? Rather like that other philosophical question: which came first...? 

Well, if (when?) it comes to that, I suppose we'll go down dancing to Jerusalema or something. Like the band that played on. 

Opposition parties, can you spare some change?

Yours in the struggle against cynicism.

Richard 

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