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What a shambles
What a shambles
Date: 2025-12-18
What's the issue?
South Africans have developed an extraordinary national skill: we can spot bullschlaka at fifty paces, sigh deeply, and then carry on with our day. It's not apathy, it's survival. When every week delivers a fresh scandal, another "urgent investigation" and a press conference that explains absolutely nothing, you learn to ration your outrage like fuel during load shedding. Carefully. Strategically. With resignation.
Take the ongoing allegations swirling around senior SAPS leadership and political killings. Once again, we're told to remain calm, trust the process and avoid speculation. Which would be comforting if "the process" didn't so often resemble a broken-down minibus taxi, stationary, smoky, and promising to move "just now". Accountability in South Africa doesn't disappear; it simply gets stuck in traffic with its hazards on.
Then there is the unbecoming behaviour of our politicians in the attempt to unseat the KZN Premier. What a shambles. Zoom out and the picture doesn't improve. South Africa increasingly resembles a country run less like a constitutional democracy and more like a mafia cabal with press conferences.
And don't think this disease is confined to our borders. Germany's recent election cycle has been marred by political intimidation, unexplained deaths and very tidy explanations that raise more questions than answers. Different accents, same script. Power protects itself. It always has.
Globally, NATO continues its awkward attempt to convince the world it's still essential, like a retired rock band touring on past hits, hoping no one notices the missing drummer. Desperate for relevance, low on funds, and increasingly reliant on tension to justify its existence. Peace, it seems, doesn't balance the books. Zelenski and his NATO buddies are eyeing Russia's frozen funds as his cash hungry hands can't seem to grab as much as they are used to. His war hungry EU allies desperate to keep the killing going so the money keeps flowing.
Kiev's lead negotiator, Rustem Umerov, has been spotted secretly meeting President Donald Trump's top envoy, Steve Witkoff, and FBI Director Kash Patel as well as Deputy Director Dan Bongino. What could they be plotting? Zelensky must be looking for that back door around about now. The shame of his massive corruption scandal seems to carry no weight at all. And what about that two billion Euro ski resort they are building in Ukraine? It does not add up.
Two Tier Kier is getting lambasted by his people, proving to be the most hated Prime Minister in the history of the UK. The vigilante action of the box cutter brigade that slashed the boats may have triggered some 'slothsome' Brits into action. No wonder there is a sudden enquiry into foreign interference in UK Politics. Something has to be done. His move to halt local elections and remove the right to a trial by jury signals a desperate grab at dwindling power.
In closing the Gaza cease fire that never was, Trump still patting himself on the back while Bibi continues his genocide, the war in Darfur still raging and the patting on the back still continuing.