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What's The Issue

What's The Issue

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2012-12-12
Going into Mangaung, Jacob Zuma looks to be holding the top job for at least another term. Despite the allegation of having raided the country's coffers, Nkandlagate and the shadow of the corruption charges and the obvious rape set up trap that he appeared to fall into with gusto and enthusiasm. That is if the ANC doesn't completely destroy itself through the fascinating lack of discipline its supporters have displayed of late.

Well the nation should take a shower and we should all brace ourselves for the coming new year. There is so much movement underfoot that keeping it steady and upright will take some concentrating.

Helen has a chance to gain some momentum and as I have said repeatedly, if the USA can have a black president, then the RSA can have a white female president. It is possible although highly improbable. Zilla, Zuma, even though they would be gob smacked by the idea that they are in an alliance, it is fundamentally a reality. If we could only get them to think that way, we could all stand together as one behind our government, not just the leading party, but our entire government, and make this country the most amazing place to live in the world.

We have achieved a miracle as a nation once before, and I know we can do it again. To do so we would obviously need some really charismatic leadership and even though you might not say, I believe that the leaders we have possess the potential to be just that.

Down here on the ground, where reality is a more potent influence, the world is getting ready for the December slow down, but Syria continues o boil like a pot of oil, threatening to explode and Israel smarts like a scalded sibling, withholding taxes and initiating even more settlements on the west bank.

War is said to be an acronym for We Are Right, often justified in the eyes of the religious beliefs of the parties involved. However the notion of war implies that the opposing force or nation is then wrong, and in so doing or being justifies military action.

More and more people are coming to the realisation that war is more about big business than important moral and ethical polarity. The people pay with their sons and daughters lives, while the governments push their countries economies down a deep dark hole of debt to some foreign bank or monetary agency. Only the weapons manufacturers and the bankers who finance these wars emerge as winners. The people can never win a war, not moral, not political, not even a religious victory is available to them.

So at this time of celebrating the birth of a man who stood for the people and for peace, let us all think how we can forsake the scourge of war and drive it out from our repertoire of human behaviour. We are all in this together, we are all one on the face of the earth, and we are all sharing the same fate.