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What The Issue?

What The Issue?

Date: 2014-08-08
The World is in a shambles with Gaza, Syria, now Lebanon, the ebola virus threatening to turn into a pandemic nightmare while we concentrate on killing each other in the name of God and almost all of central Africa turned on itself in a feeding frenzy at the trough of Western demand for minerals and oil.

Much like our country with the ANC youth league breaking into factions and the ANC Womens League a shambles. Municipal employees are scurrying to find ways to engage the state in lovely lucrative tender deals before the window of opportunity closes, which I hope it does soon. It should never have been opened in the first place but hey, this is Africa and apparently we love it.

But hey if you are hard done by in South Africa, if you are suffering the hardship of not having enough food to feed your children then I guess you may not be too pleased to hear that our Government has spent over a million Rand in the past five years on flowers. That is a neat 250 thousand Rand a year. I suppose they are necessary, but tell that to the starving children who are shivering in the winter cold.

Hopefully the pigs on Thandi's farm are not having to eat each other any more and that the cease fire in Gaza lasts a little longer than the last ten attempts at getting these two factions to consider the human element in the region. We can all pray for that I think.

There is a ray of hope in the Ebola outbreak with two American victims of the virus showing dramatic improvement after having been given a new experimental antidote to the disease. Now that is one fight worth fighting, not the mindless battles of Gaza and Syria et cetera. We should fight the long reaching tentacles of poverty and disease, not the idealistic views of a religion that condones murder in the name of God.

We should fight the lack of power that prevents development and stops the creation of jobs. We should fight the scourge of eTolls and the corruption and nepotism that takes bread off the plates of many and puts Champaign and caviar on the plates of just a few. Those are battles we should be fighting, not our brothers and sisters who just want to provide for their children and live a peaceful life. Those political ideals that we swallow and then send our children of to war to die a senseless death in a haze of 'us and them' when we are actually one.