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What's the issue?

What's the issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2013-10-11
As Vavi's sex life looks like it could cripple the biggest union in the country, the distraction has some of us giggling about the office love affair and others squawking about the distraction it has provided. The allegations of collusion or at the very least complacency over the apparent pilfering of the union's provident fund should be shocking. We should all be drawing in our breaths with a fast hissing gushing noise, but no. 

Some of us pick up the newspaper that is spreading the story, browse through the details of a two million Rand payout to make the problem go away and glibly let the story involving Vavi, a member of Corruption Watch, slip back into the news stand with hardly a sigh. 

We have become so complacent, so used to the plundering that is fast destroying this amazing country. We are glibly tuning away from issues that would have other nations thronging into the streets and tossing every conceivable projectile at any conceivable target. Take the systematic and disgusting, brutal farm murders that have gone on unabated for so many years, no leave that, just take the ridiculous e-tolling idea. Now this is in my useless opinion, the biggest daylight robbery of South Africa's coffers that we have seen in decades. Even the single minded Boer Government could not have orchestrated a scheme where we let some other nation come and rip the citizens of our own country off to this extent. 

Our scholarly and well-travelled Transport Minister Dipuo sounded so far out of touch with reality when she chastised the DA over the hilarious billboards scattered around Joberg, which stated "E-tolls, Proudly brought to you by the ANC." 

"The work of cowards" she chastised away. Well I am so dead against the E-toll system, which will give a specific European company a pile of South African cash to the tune of some millions every year, while some South African companies are desperately trying to find opportunities. How do you explain this situation away as cowardly? 

The IEC is desperately trying to get the "Born Free" generation to get their ID documents and register, so that they can vote in the impending elections and if they have eyes and ears, the we might have a chance of changing the course that we seem to be set on and recue the future we, as South Africans, so richly deserve. 

What will the next headline read? How many billions will be squandered? How much further into economic slavery will we be sold? Do we really need a European company to charge us to use our own roads? What exactly does Minister Dipuo Peters think the DA is scared of? I can't see any way that the E-toll system will benefit this country. Sorry.