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What is the issue

What is the issue

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2017-05-26

My eyes welled with tears and I supressed the biggest sob of self pity and outrage that I have ever experienced in my living years.

I came across Lethu Menziwa's article "South Africa The Inside Story", which you can probably find at https://emacous.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/fw-de-klerk-and-covert-dealings-prior-to-the-1994-elections/

Type the address carefully into your browser and have a large box of tissues handy, because if half of what Lethu lets onto, then the saddest sequence of events that ever befell this country and our people is told in her story. The rape pillage and plunder of our national wealth happened long ago and any attempt at grabbing the treasury as it has been said one of us is working on, is only to steal what's left.

Then just to make matters worse, and send me into a full cry wailing hysteria, I read how Dondo Mogajane, our acting Director General of the National Treasury, implied that the Public Service Pension fund is being earmarked for another massive bailout for our failed and repeatedly failing SAA. One massive golden handshake after another and the pension fund will go the same way that the Transnet's pension fund went. This is nothing short of organised robbery, robbing the poor to give to the already privileged.

Advocate Anton Alberts said of this deal, "The government has taken a huge asset like SAA into the abyss of mismanagement, and now wants to use its own workers' money to throw into this seemingly bottomless pit, which had to be bailed out with billions of rands without success." He added "The government cannot be allowed to plunder this fund. The consequences will be tragic. An external private partner will have to be found to invest in SAA to get the airports company back on track,"

I found myself scratching my eyeballs out of my head, not wanting to believe what I was reading. The feeling of hopelessness and despair was so bad I had to scroll away and to my utter dismay and further horror, what did I find

Joy and fervour, I actually broke into a smile when I read that Jacob has been banned from addressing COSATU meetings. What with major corporations like Chevrolet, ducking and running away from their investments in South Africa, something Jacob and the Guptas can take full credit for.

My joy was short lived when I woke to the news of the Manchester concert bombing. The shock and horror of this heinous act was met with the contempt that it deserves, however I couldn't help but wonder where all the shock and horror for the civilian casualties in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Lybia, Tunisia and Yemen was. Angela Merkel sent a heartfelt message about the horrible waste of innocent life, but no word from her or her ilk about the massive loss of innocent life in the Middle East and North Africa under the bombs of the coalition. The obliteration of entire cities, homes left in mounds of crumbling ruins, whole cities destroyed, lives splintered into fractures of revulsion. Where is the western world's commiserations for the children murdered by the greedy wants of western domination Don't they count.