Whatshot

2025
2024
June
April
2023
March
2022
2021
2020
March
February
2019
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
2018
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
2017
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
2016
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
2015
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
2014
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
2013
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
2012
December
November
October
September
August
July

What's The Issue?

What's The Issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2015-11-27
Okay so here we are killing our police officers like they were vermin in the grain store and supporting a regime that is fast washing our miracle country down the drain. I recently read a piece written by Justice Malala and published in the Rand Daily Mail, where he details how our illustrious president has depleted the achievements of his parties 100 years of political hardship and dedication, in just six years. Sorry to my Umlungu buddies but the ANC represented this country's hopes and dreams and aspirations and then we got him. Not fair.

International investment fund managers who are investing in South Africa have almost all gone short, and many are staying short expecting things to get worse in our economy.

A weak Rand may not have been such a bad thing if we were able to act or even react to it, manufacturing and exports could have come to our economy's rescue and tourism had the potential to make up the shortfall. Instead of shopping for multi million Rand aeroplanes, we should have been ramping up our mining production, opening up our tourism industry and stimulating our industrial manufacturing sector. Visiting lavish trade shows and jet setting around the world is just not working for good old S.A. Slapping ridiculous visa requirements on our tourism industry was doff to say the least.

While our budget deficit climbs and we see corporate profits fall like a lead balloon, we squander billions on things like SAA and SABC and the clutch of corruption tightens on our beloved country's neck. A mining minister with Indian connections and a headless police force, or maybe that is a bit harsh. It has a head, one that should be on a knitting factory's board of directors, maybe.

Aren't we lucky that there is the IMF? When the money runs out we can ask them for money and then America can own us like they seem to do to so many other countries.

Still we are better off than some countries, like Syria, where America and Russia are arm wrestling each other for control. I am amazed that America don't want to support Russia in their offensive against IS, ISIS and ISIL. But then Russia maintains that Iran is an important ally in achieving success and America has them painted as evil.

Perhaps it is time to forgo Mark Sykes and Franois Georges-Picot's imaginary dissection of the Middle East and recreate a more realistic division of what was the Ottoman Empire before the West stepped in and meddled with the natural order of things.

Maybe it is too late for that, however I fear that unless the West gives back autonomy and dignity to the Arab nations that are caught in the middle of the conflict, there will never be world peace.

Oh and just a quick question. With almost all the countries in the world now at war with IS, is this the third world war?