Dear Fellow South Africans
How's that for a perfect metaphor? We vote. The lights go out.
On the subject of darkness, we really ought to have cleared up some superstitions long ago.
1. There is no better devil, no matter how well you think you know him. Devils do what devils do. Your butt is not exempt from roasting because you feel some kinship.
2. Wolves do not lose their taste for mutton. Their howls of remorse only drown the noise of the rumbling of their cavernous bellies.
3. What politicians say means less than a 'whisper from the buttocks' (French journalist). Deeds, not words / Ditiro eseng mafoko (school motto).
4. Even great captains suffer catastrophic shipwreck when the crews are woefully inept.
5. The contracts that you sign with the devil are worth less than the used scraps you sign them on. That's a pathetic way to sell your soul.
6. No matter how inflated with wind the clichès, platitudes and slogans are, they have never filled a belly.
7. X does mark the spot. It may well mark the spot where we buried South Africa.
8. And as we shuffle on post-elections, for bullies in politics and government, as elsewhere, silence means hearty consent.
Yours in both hope and the weariness that comes with dreary inevitability.
Richard
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