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What's the issue?

What's the issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2014-08-22
Should he stay or should he go now? No one seems to know the answer to whether the highest legal position in our country, namely the head of the National Prosecuting Authority, should stay in his appointed position or go.

The National Director of Public Prosecutors Mxolisi Nxasana is trying real hard to find out why Number One wants to suspend him. This in a country with crime spiralling out of control so bad even anarchy might be too late to quell the disease. Farm murders is a subject I shudder to even bring up. Insert photo of me shuddering here.

But our world is not a bowl of cherries, of course Hamas started spewing rockets over into Israel, afraid that a peace agreement might be reached I suppose. What would they do with all that time on their hands if they had to stop fighting with Israel? They would be bored.

But besides the struggles of our fellow humans around the world, Gaza, Ukraine, Mosul, et cetera, I might turn my attention to our back yard.

I am busy looking into the electricity reticulation on the North Coast. After hearing reports of a ten million Rand lawsuit, against one municipality, being awarded to the plaintiff who is a developer. I was informed by another friend and developer that he has brought a law suit of some three hundred and something million Rand against the Municipality for losses and damages brought about by the electrical departments shenanigans.

Now just as our country needs a good judge to handle the crime problem, we need good municipal management to handle our electricity so we can develop and grow our economy. Never mind the roast that went into the over just before the power failure or the month's frozen goods that are thawing in the deep freeze because the power has been off for over three hours. Talk about bribery, corruption, mismanagement and the ever-present jobs for buddies problem that seems to have found its way into the electrical departments of our municipalities. The call to privatise electrical production is just the tip of the iceberg and recent calls for the municipalities to have the retail function of electrical supply taken away from them seems to have come a little late if it comes at all.

Electricity is the backbone of industry and the driving force of any economy. Unlike what Julius told his followers, land is not everything. Land is just the beginning. Without proper leadership and sound economical practices, the land is as worthless as an aeroplane without wings. Without dedicated farmers to tend the land it is probably better not to have the land and just hole up in a one-bedroom bachelor pad.

Then of course there is the issue of salary. Civil servants must get paid, even those who are doing lucrative business with their civic office. They must get paid too, so they probably don't want to feed the pigs and plough the fields. How will owning land help again?