Holding our Heads and our Soup Bowls High

 It's good to know that our farsighted servants of the people in government have their priorities right. 

We have police officers, politicians, criminals and assorted fellow travellers scuttling away like startled sand crabs at the approach of General Mkhwanazi's footsteps. I imagine that private clinics are treating fingers scarred by furious, prolonged tapping, as emails and call records are wiped clean. The South African equivalent of Bill Clinton's "I never had sex with that woman (just shared a cigar)" reverberates in public and private places. The stench of corruption makes breathing difficult.

Other business goes on as usual: fraud and all its synonyms, gross incompetence and neglect wherever it is possible to practice the same and all that makes us the Land of the Free-for-all and the Home of the Bent. 

South Africans struggle, starve, sink into depression and despair, while heroes of The Struggle do their heroic stuff in parliament, SOE's and other traditional lairs of those who didn't struggle to be poor. 

Now, a Servant of the People could be forgiven for being distracted by these many horrors. But our lot, ears keenly attuned to the bugle call of duty, are not easily swayed. They are made of sterner stuff. It is vital to the wellbeing of every South African that we tweak the tail of the American eagle at every opportunity. I am, therefore, delighted that our government will not go running off to the US to do a G20 handover. What the hell! Let those arrogant Trumplodytes come here, if they dare. Even if it means sacrificing shopping and luxury hotel accommodation. We are nothing if not resolute. (A friend says that that is precisely why we are nothing).

So there, Mr Trump! We are not Nigeria to be trifled with. Don't think that we don't have a formidable army and air force. (We don't, but you don't have to think it). Our navy is fully prepared (not sure if that doesn't include at least one sub resting on the seabed, biding its time). We will not be bullied by the orange-haired One's USA. Crushed maybe, by tarrifs, restrictions and withdrawal of funding and trade agreements,  but bullied,  never!

We will hold our heads and soup bowls high, as we queue for chow and unemployment benefits. The Scuffle continues.

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