No, Minister Sisulu

 Thus spake a Twitter sage to me:

'The scuffle Continues' is nothing but questions the legitimacy of Sisulu to critique the Constitution and the law. Any intelligent scholar would go beyond and engage the content of her debate. You lack understanding of the ANC that it is collective & has doves & hawks'

My thanks for the engagement.

I don't care if the ANC has ravens and crows. Or vultures.

Imagine swearing an oath to uphold the constitution, and almost 30 years later waking up to the realisation that it's fatally flawed. It doesn't require excessive intelligence nor scholarly enquiry to see the irony, absurdity  and contradictions.

It would be more fruitful  to do an incisive analysis of a piece written by an addict in the full flow of nyaope inspired creativity.

It is embarrassing to point out the most obvious of facts. The constitution does not legislate, administer, or lead - leaders do. Countries with comparable and even inferior ones are not the discarded dog's breakfast that we are. Dare one speculate that it may be because, for them, the main thing is the main thing. Getting the bloody job done. Not pontificating endlessly. Or parading dubious, past glories.

What has the minister done with the time and opportunity, given to few, to make a difference in this land? There was the accusation in 2012 of jetting around excessively, as Minister of Defence, but perhaps that was necessary to build our military into the fearsome fighting force that it has become. In line with the theme of flying high, I read something about flights, fruit and flowers that must have been equally beneficial in the Human Settlements role. Lest I am accused of too much flattery, let those highlights and achievements suffice.

Years of power and privilege and I must repeat:

Is this the best you can do: 'The constitution ate my homework'?

I don't know why this Hamlet quote comes to mind when I think of our ministers, their flashes of brilliance, their lasting  contribution in thought and deed to this land::

Thus has he and many more of the same bevy that I know the drossy age dotes on only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter, a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions...

I'm sure it doesn't apply to them.

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