Ever since the arrival of Covid-19 in South Africa, the country has more and more resembled socialist Cuba or Venezuela, where everyone is on government grants, the government controls everything and the zombie citizens are radicalised in an eternal “revolution” against their own prosperity. SA has literally devolved into a country littered with criminals and eternally disgruntled protesters, militarized on a local level by ANC structures, to supposedly show their displeasure over anything the local leaders choose to highlight, because none of this is about the people or services, it is all about the leaders and what they stand to gain.
A good example is Ramaphosa’s announcement that cabinet had decided to close schools for a month, which was actually Cabinet capitulating to the pressure exerted by trade unions. The battle between the Minister of Basic Education and the Trade Unions ended this time in favor of the trade unions. Likewise the battle against Covid-19 is being severely hampered by the socialist trade unions as they jockey for power and money, happy to close clinics and hospitals.
Meanwhile in the Western Cape, residents of the informal settlements reacted angrily and demanded that they “have the right to rebuild their squatter shacks” where the municipality had demolished them, all the while more and more of them are bussed in from the Eastern Cape, as part of a larger campaign by ANC leaders to take over the Province, so they can plunder some more.
In the north, the SA Municipal Workers’ Union wants to start a war against the larger Pretoria city council, because they have a dispute over salaries and the streets have been turned into a war zone again, as insurgents, brought in by full taxis, damaged municipal buildings as well as state property, while trucks were destroyed in fires.
Each of the protesting marches were allowed to get out of hand and out of control, by the police who watched the vandals’ protests, with apparent indifference. Ramaphosa claimed to object and warned against those who commit corruption, but the Minister of Police is silent about the vandals’ destructive actions, as it seems they want to paint a negative picture of Ramaphosa’s opportunistic handling of the whole crisis, and rightly so.
