Welcome Home, Mr President

 Dear Mr Ramaphosa

It's good to have you back. Not really, but I suppose it's the thing to say.

Those dreadful Poles were so petty and bureaucratic, were they not? What the heck, we have thousands of investors coming over, or under, from neighbouring countries. And do we make a fuss? Leave alone photocopied documents, most have no documents at all. I know that caring and entrepreneurial Home Affairs people often fix that in innovative ways. And apparently their fees are quite competitive. (Juan Carlos de Lobo Alvarez, Mexican BCF - border crossing facilitator - assures me that this is so). 

Do we harrass the Bushiris and other miracle workers for documentary proof of their air-walking skills and other miraculous abilities? How would the Zama Zamas from Lesotho be able to conduct  business if we nagged them about licences for their AK47s? I've heard that we are also quite easygoing with alternative pharmacists from Nigeria and elsewhere. And are we not happy? Are we not free? Are some of us not still alive? Those Poles could learn a lot from us. Perhaps on your next trip (with original documents)......

I understand that you came under some comradely fire in Ukraine. I'm sure that Mr Putin told his chaps to aim high. Anyway, if the unthinkable had happened, let me comfort you with this: we would have replaced you in the twinkling of an eye. 

Well, sir, I suppose it's back to the critical business of think tanks, task groups and commissions, with time between for frog-boiling sessions.

I should think that Mr Cele is also home from his Chinese shopp...., I mean, benchmarking  / fact-finding tour. Apart from a fresh appreciation for sweet and sour pork, what does he bring us? (At least he'd have had  no trouble there with pork orders from the kitchen). I know how frugal you ANC blokes are, how mindful of using taxpayers' hard-earned contributions wisely. I expect that the trip was worth every cent and we'll be rounding up zamas, corruption - soaked politicians, contractor mafia thugs, Eastern European criminals, homegrown thieves and rogues, like a Texas cattle  drive on the move. The citizens are under fire daily (comradely and other) and gatvol is the mildest of euphemisms for their state of mind. Mr Cele needs to earn his pork. Has the minister of electricity also been to China? Please tell us that he'll be staying.

To you, sir, Mr Cele and the whole jolly gang, 2024 approacheth. Why not go out with a bang? Surprise us.

Yours in the struggle for peace abroad and at home.

Richard 

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