Dear EFF Leadership
I found the report below most disconcerting. Also disturbing.
"The Economic Freedom Fighters has fired a councilor in the Makana Local Municipality in Makhanda for moonlighting as a cleaner at Rhodes University. | @MaliDayimani"
It's not as if the lady had a tender for bridges in Limpopo or something. I choose that example at random. Who can survive in South Africa today without a side hustle? Even Mr Zuma, rumour has it, had a few of those on the go.
I know that this is a tender subject, but word is that most politicians have a side hustle of sorts. Some apparently extremely profitable. I myself have been trying to snag a tender or two for bridges in Limpopo, which apparently were not built on the first tender.
Apart from that, this is a wonderful example of a councillor actually getting her hands dirty. I would have thought that that's what those smart overalls that you guys wear are for.
I believe that this was a symbolic act of great significance. All about service delivery and the importance of education. We know that the EFF is the party of highly educated comrades (hence the superior logic that drops from time to time 'like the gentle rain from heaven'). Who can forget Dr Ndlozi's profound comment on the burning of the parliamentary building:
"Whatever the cause! Whatever the intentions: IT IS A BEAUTIFUL FIRE"
No Oxford don ever spoke more eloquently or more meaningfully. We are blessed by the quality of our politicians.
Of course, there is also the symbolism of clean government, which is what every right-thinking person expects when Mr Malema and minio...sorry, managing team grasp the ring. Clean, singing, dancing, chanting government, dispensing justice, land and pithy quotes on dialectical (and other forms of) materialism. One imagines that investors will stream over our borders in ways creative and the more conventional fence crawling approach. Rubbing their weary eyes in joyous disbelief as they behold the EFF - created socialist paradise, in which each person shall possess Gucci apparel and a Breitling timepiece. One can almost hear the celestial singing of angels as the Pan-African brotherhood of man comes to be in the New South Africa. Hang on, I'm not sure whether the comrades have any truck with angels. Perhaps the singing of demons, then.
The lady should have been rewarded and / or promoted, not fired. You should learn from the ANC, who readily reward entrepreneurship and enterprise. As part of the EFF leadership I imagine that her speeches would have been peppered with examples of capitalist man's inhumanity to man in the work environment. She could have discoursed at length on the hardships that the working class has to endure while plump academics reap the real rewards.
I trust that you will speedily rectify this grossly unfair labour practice. Failing that, expect a march on your revolutionary premises led by yours truly. I will be clad in overalls and wearing a red beret in honour of the, (in my view),injured party. We will be proceeding from the premise that an injury to one is a snotklap to all. Talking of klaps, I have been told that your responses are sometimes, in the words of Mad Magazine, of the non-verbal, sensory variety. Let me make it clear that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I am not necessarily alluding to a Brackenfell type bollocking of any persons, but merely indicating that we will respond to provocations . I believe that this is also your philosophy.
I recall that one of your great leaders warned shopkeepers not to provoke marchers by having their doors open and leaving assorted goodies on provocative display. Your disciplined ground forces could not then be held responsible for deeds done in the throes of gnawing hunger and righteous anger. So impressed was I by this speech, reminiscent of Shakespeare's 'God for Harry, England and Saint George,' that I yelled out an involuntary 'Hallelujah'.
Yours in the struggle for economic freedom through side - hustles.
Richard
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ReplyDeleteThanks. A little crazy too
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