Orwell is Alive and Well and Living in South Africa

 Dear ANC Comrades 

My neighbour, Mrs Smith, has always been proud that her Johnny studies at the University of Cape Town. In five years, he's distinguished himself in drinking, getting into scrapes and failing with commendable consistency. He was booted out, after a particularly outrageous escapade.

"My Johnny has graduated from UCT", says poor, deluded Mrs Smith proudly.

Mr Patel (Minister of Trade and Industry), I suspect that there's a teeny difference between graduating and being booted out. Just a little one. Call it intuition on my part. Truth is, sir, we are on the verge of being booted out of AGOA, not graduating, as you so quaintly put it. I understand that this follows our jolly romps with Comrade Vladimir in the sunflower fields. The timing of your graduation announcement is intriguing. And this graduation has been carefully planned since?

George Orwell is alive and well, comrades. At least his 'newspeak' and 'doublethink' from 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' are. Remember how, in the book, the party would trumpet great production successes when everything was going to maggots? Remember how, when they were getting the kaka kicked out of them on the battlefield, they would announce resounding victories? 

Mr Mbalula reportedly said that cadre deployment has been a success. Hmm, which success should we celebrate most jubilantly? Redeployment of billions of public funds? Tender fraud and stuff-ups? Destruction and decay of infrastructure? Memorable displays of incompetence, buffoonery and indifference? We could go on but I think you catch the drift. 

Forgive me for quoting an excerpt from an earlier post  

https://thescuffle.blogspot.com/2022/11/ghost-workers-in-prasa.html

A thousand names went rolling by

They were piled up to the sky

And when he came to Mickey Mouse 

He felt that he might die 

His heart was seized with panic

There were spots before his eye

For he saw the numbers coming hard

And he gave a mournful cry

Mayebabo

Yoh, Yoh, Yoh, Yoh

Ghost workers in PRASA

The minister was unfazed

He sent a cheerful tweet

'We've saved the country millions

And everything is sweet'

To swallow that weird logic

You must be pretty dense

The auditor keeps crying out

As if he's lost his sense

Mayebabo

Yoh, Yoh, Yoh, Yoh

Ghost workers in PRASA

Mr Orwell would probably not be surprised that, as in his book, the party faithful swallow all this like fine twenty-year old scotch or delicately fried KFC drumsticks.  

Viva doublethink, viva newspeak, viva ANC, viva!

Yours in the struggle to process gold from manure.

Richard 

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