Best of the Best

Dear Fellow South Africans 

Did you know that Bafana Bafana is the best football team in the world?

Well, apparently Mr. Cele told officers at a national police day that the South African police service is among the best police services in the world.  So what the heck -  Bafana is best. Local is lekker.

In my eagerness, to assist Mr. Cele - and Lord knows he needs all the assistance he can get - I did some research. 

According to one source, 85.5 percent of murders go unsolved in South Africa. An Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID)annual report stated that more than 5 500 cases of police criminal offences are reported every year. I seem to recall Mr Cele saying once that there is no police brutality in South Africa. The report speaks of more than 3500 cases of torture and assault. Perhaps that was not brutal enough for Mr Cele.

Yes, I think we have enough evidence to support Mr Cele's assertion that we sit up there at the summit with the best. Probably just below Scotland Yard and the FBI.

There was a report in 2019 about the much- maligned,  best president of all time , who built roads , bridges and universities and never looked sideways at a ten rand note. That's Mr Zuma. The great man was alleged to have had sleeper agents in the police.

• "Unknown sleeper agents were deployed to and are still integrated into structures in the police and state-owned companies, such as the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa)". News 24

"The High-Level Panel Review Panel on State Security earlier found that Zuma had abused the SSA for personal gain."

Now, judging from the very large number of photos and videos of police officers sleeping.

at desks,  in cars and in other places where sleep may be found, there could well be some substance to the sleeper allegations.  They certainly know how to sleep in this top police service.

Incidentally, the report also dwelt  on  how former public protector, Ms Mkhwebane seemed to ignore the 'sleeper agents' information, in favor of 'pressing' investigators on the SARS rogue unit. A phantom of someone's fertile brain, if I read that right.

Just thought I'd mention this to join my voice to the many voices of support for the two much-maligned individuals - Mr Zuma and Ms Mkhwebane.

What have we here, Mr Cele. Delusions, lies, a passion for mediocrity - all of these? We've had Tintswaloworld, 'loadshedding- is -not-the-end-of-the-world', now this

I can only again quote an earlier post, 2020:

'If George Orwell had written 2020 in South Africa:

The party's ever-present slogans fluttered proudly from deserted dairy farms, vandalized railway stations and scorched public buildings:

INCOMPETENCE IS HEROISM

DECAY IS PROGRESS

BULLSHIT IS TRUTH'

(The Scuffle Continues : 2020: https://thescuffle.blogspot.com/2020/12/2020_21.html)

The alarming thing is that, in South Africa, this is not satire, but truth. 

The frightening thing is that, in South Africa, we have become so accustomed to delusion, lies and soul numbing mediocrity that we will vote it in time and again.

Yours in the struggle for some sanity.

Richard 

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