National Shutdown

Dear  Fellow South Africans  

People are making fun of the alleged call by the ANC for a national shutdown.

Bizarre but not unprecedented. There was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, good Spider-Man vs bad Spider-Man. These things happen.

We once had the ANC protesting against crime, not unlike Jack The Ripper protesting against gender based violence. We can probably expect protests against buffoonery, corruption, incompetence and other evils that are anathema to the upstanding ANC. Von Dreck's theorem states that piety and public spiritedness within political parties grow in inverse proportion to the nearmess to elections.

Of course, Mr Mabe, of "yes, we can govern" fame, denounced reports of the call as false. Perhaps third force stuff  - my comment, not his. I believe Mr Mabe. Why would the ANC call for a national shutdown? That's redundant. They've been working hard at shutting down South Africa for almost thirty years. Modesty would probably compel them to deny this, but they've been remarkably successful to date.

In all seriousness, the ANC is not solely to blame for our dismal situation. The cunning apartheid regime handed over stuff with built in obsolescence: power stations, the national carrier, the post office etc. This is the only logical explanation for the simultaneous crumbling and collapse of all of these and more. What with our comrades having put in back breaking years of blue light dashes, draining conferences, meetings, luncheons and appearances on national TV.  Life isn't fair. Those apartheid era scoundrels also deliberately left stuff that is btoth tempting  and easy to steal: railway sleepers, stations, cables, money...Aftet all, which disciplined cadre could walk by a sleeper carelessly laid on a railway line and not be overwhelmed by the temptation to redeploy it? For the benefit of the people.What burdens those cruel taskmasters laid on our frail shoulders.

Give the comrades a break - a long, long one.

Yours in the  Eskom - like struggle to shed light.

Richard 

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