My Two Cents Worth

With a new year comes new beginnings and hopefully the prosperity and success of my new blog. I may not be the world expert on politics, science or sport but I hope to use this blog to put in my two cents worth for anyone who cares to read it. My running commentary on current affairs, news, politics as well as the daily events in my ordinarily average life sprinkled with a healthy dose of sarcasm, wit, humour and cynicism will hopefully provide for some insightful and entertaining reading. If not, well you’re obviously an uncultured twit so maybe you should find someone else’s blog to tickle your fancy. 

Anyway jokes and caustic sarcasm aside, what does 2012 have in store for us besides for the prophesied apocalypse of our planet? I anticipate that this year will bring forth many changes in the political climate of South Africa. We’ve already seen JULIAAAAS suspended from the ANCYL despite all our fears that he would remain resolutely seated in his jungle gym throne. The ANC centenary celebrations held yesterday just proved that in-fighting, factionalism and individual ambition are threatening to overwhelm the ANC’s true objectives. These fears ring true in many an educated South African’s repertoire, despite efforts by ANC secretary General, Gwede Mantashe to quash these fears. In an interview conducted with the Sunday Times to mark theruling party’s centenary celebrations, Mantashe maintained that the perception that the ANC had failed to change into a modern political party was a “deliberate distortion”. I beg to differ, the ANC is in itself a deliberate distortion of the true values and objectives it stood for at its inception in 1912. The ANC is not a modern political party; they are a repressive, self serving bunch of morons who use the country’s wealth and resources to fuel their own greed and opulence. To do this they are reverting to fascist and dictatorial methods of repression by attempting to muzzle the press with the implementation of the secrecy bill. 

Many opposition leaders including Helen Zille of the DA, Bantu Holomisa of the UDM and the Rev Kenneth Meshoe of the ACDP all assert that the moral ground upon which the ANC started governing has been tainted and poisoned by government corruption, tender fraud, poor service delivery and polipreneurship where politicians are increasingly viewing politics as a business enterprise and  they are using their public tenure to stockpile huge amounts of wealth for themselves, their friends and their families. In my opinion, if the ANC stay in power for much longer, they will be awarding South Africa a one way ticket to a typical failed African state. I apologise for the hefty dose of pessimism especially at he beginning of a new year but the facts speak for themselves. What type of government that claims to ‘serve in the interests o0f the people’ spends over a hundred grand on a centenary celebration while the majority of the country don’t even have running water, food on the tables or ARV’s to curb the scourge of AIDS?? Would you as a mother eat a 5 course meal while your child is scavenging in a dustbin? 

The lack of common sense leaves me totally gobsmacked but then again how can we expect the ANC to have much common sense when our very own president hasn’t even passed matric. We shall see what this year has in store for South African politics, hopefully the DA will present a more robust opposition front rather than focussing most of their time on criticising the ANC for their untied shoelaces .Hopefully COPE can sort itself out and become the official opposition like it always promised to be, and hopefully Juju will flush himself down the toilet.