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Dear Editor, Re: IS SOUTH AFRICA A FAILED STATE?

Dear Editor, Re: IS SOUTH AFRICA A FAILED STATE?

Author: Dart
Date: 2022-02-23

Dear Editor,


Re: IS SOUTH AFRICA A FAILED STATE?


You published this article in March 2020 and its almost prophetic:
When Donald Trump described Africa as a continental disaster and SA as a "s.it hole" he was severely criticized for speaking his mind.


Down the line 24 months after one has to reflect on what he said and consider how true is was. When a country can't protect it's citizens, cannot control it's borders, when it's police services can't control crime, and when the country can't keep the lights on - then one can safely say that Trump was absolutely right.


What amazes me is how Cyril Ramaphosa, leaves the country on a state visit to Egypt (another failed state) in the midst of a total collapse of Eskom and does the over dramatic thing by claiming to cut his visit short to attend to the Eskom crisis, which wasthere before he left and mind you was there two years ago when he was Vice President and appointed to resolve the crisis.

This is exacerbated even more when he talks about Eskom in the third person as if Eskom is a private enterprise and expresses shock that this crisis was not averted. The ANC led government has proved time and again that they have failed to govern judiciously and their expiry date is just being extended by themselves.


They firstly blamed the crisis a Eskom on the quality of the coal and then went on to blame it on the coal being wet and then when all these excuses failed to convince the final excuse was Eskom was sabotaged by a third force - something that can never be proved. The old excuse of blaming colonialism and imperialism passed its sell by date, the previous apartheid regime has expired, and then it was white monopoly capital and that expired. So South Africans get used to the new excuse -sabotage.


One quick look across our borders will give you a glimpse of our future - the failed state of Zimbabwe where load shedding is the norm ( 18 out of 24 hours) prices of bread and basic food stuff is unaffordable to the extent that the UN has declared Zimbabwe a disaster zone worthy of meeting the criteria of a humanitarian crisis. Is it possible for SA to avoid the same fate - I have heard people on the ground saying on a lighter note that the Guptas should be repatriated to solve the Eskom crisis and some going even further saying that even God can't help us."
Maybe it's time to re­publish.


Regards
Dart
PS: Having gone through what was said two years ago ...

I feel like its Groundhogs Day, perpetual deception ...