Anyone who doesn't see where we are headed is living with their heads in their rear ends, history and especially in Africa has shown where we are going
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CapeTalk/702 Radio has recently been running an ad talking about the butterfly effect and the difference that one person can make to the country by standing up for what he believes in. This is an extremely unfortunate example (and makes me want to stick my finger down my throat) when we consider the effect that Jacob Zuma has had on the country.
During his watch several momentous things have happened – none of them good.
The Scorpions were disbanded, thereby removing all danger of prosecution for past (or future crimes) for him and his comrades.
The head of the National Prosecuting Authority was replaced by a Party hack whose loyalty is to the Party instead of the Constitution.
As Chief of Police another loyal Party comrade has been appointed.
The Arms Deal scandal has finally been swept under the carpet and Zuma's partner in crime was sprung from his token/so-called imprisonment.
The SABC has become simply an ANC propaganda machine funded by the taxpayer.
The new Lawyers Bill threatens the rule of law and has been described as a “calamity for the rule of law” by one of South Africa's top legal minds.
We are starting to see severe media censorship as bad as the worst efforts of the Nats.
The four original provinces (although not Zuma's doing) were expanded to nine in order to provide bloated bureaucracies and jobs for cronies. The National Health Insurance is simply another bureaucracy intended to provide jobs for more incompetent cronies.
The current talk talk about reverting to four provinces is purely about seizing control of the Western Cape from the DA and will be a disaster for its people.
I would like to see the Western Cape secede from SA and go it alone because the country is sliding irrevocably into a one party dictatorship like Zimbabwe. Unlike Zimbabwe, there are several factions in SA competing for power and the possibility of a coup and civil war is very real.
Two years before Zuma came to power I predicted that he would become another Idi Amin and none of his actions since then have led me to believe that I was mistaken.
After living through the changes in Nyasaland and both Rhodesias I cannot say the the future looks good for anyone except the elite members of the ruling party.
