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What's the Issue?

What's the Issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2015-05-29
Where do I begin? I really felt for our deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa when he was given the unenviable task of delivering the "solution" to the eToll crisis to the media and the people of South Africa. What a crock of the proverbial excrement. This is a stumbling block that seems to keep cropping up In the ruling parties path. I am wondering how much water has gone under that bridge already and are we sold so far down the river that the ruling party will continue to shove this disgusting issue of maladministration down our throats even at their own peril.

I like Cyril Ramaphosa, except when he made that ludicrous remark during the electioneering campaign where he said that a vote for the DA was a vote to bring back apartheid. I'm not sure he even said that but if he did then I feel sorry for him. However I am totally off track here, the issue at hand is the eToll debacle that just won't go away. We must ask ourselves why it won't go away.

I know down here in KZN there is not a lot of hubbub about eTolls but there should be a lot more than there is. This is a travesty of democracy, it is the most blatant fascist endeavour our beloved ruling party seems so totally committed to that all it can do is say "Open wide, here it comes."

At least they are not telling us to turn around and bend over, yet. The EFF has likened the eToll system to every South African being given a Dompass. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, the national speaker for the EFF calls the eToll system an infringement on our freedom of movement. Well there are toll roads and they work, so we can choose to use the toll or take the alternate route, a choice that is available with the eToll system, however I think he is missing the point.

The public were not confronted and in so doing it was affronted. This will not go away until the gantries do.

In other news China is planning to beef up their navy, which at least can swim, to defend its territorial waters. The West has pulled some three point five trillion dollars out of the BRICS group over the last ten years, in an effort to prevent the rise to power and maintain the status quo, with nearly half of the sum over the last three years. BRICS will survive and erode the dominance that western financial institutions have in the world economic scene.

Then there is always talk of war. "Today is the first Memorial Day in 14 years that the United States is not engaged in a major ground war," the words of Barak Obama had not even hit the microphone and the offence was being criticised and protested against. Someone get that man a TV. Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, ISIS? Which planet is he living on? There was no problem and they sent in their troops. They left and a huge problem developed, now they wont send in their troops. It stinks.