Il me met un ace à 228. J’étais là : Fuck, je fais devoir servir.
- Pas le mot en F s’il te plaît.
- Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
- Nos excuses pour le langage. Corentin, je vais te poser une dernière question, s’il te plaît, reste poli […]
- Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Should be an interesting day for our media… Illegal immigrants are throwing stones and logs at police at the media. Let’s see what the news articles will read without the xenophobia label and the immigrants being violent 😎😎
Reflection: I took years off the South Africans' current affairs cycle.
I felt that the conversation was NOT moving. And I felt I couldn't add anything beyond what I had already contributed.
It was the same conversations, same talking points, same slogans, same vacuous posturing, same empty pledges & chronic never-to-be-followed-up
commitments.
I remember saying to one of the execs in my team, “South Africa became diseased with sameness.”
During that time, we built our international business to be multiple times the size of our SA base.
We built a bigger business in less than half the time with multinational clients & client states that want to get things done.
Sure, they talk. All clients meet, confer, and talk. But after that, they actually MOVE! Stuff gets done!
Since dialling back into the SA discourse over the past few months, I have been sad to realise that South Africa is still talking about the same thing she was talking about 8 years ago.
The needle hasn't moved at all.
And worse, the macros have only become worse.
Much worse.
You can't blame any legacy issue for this. We are living with the consequences of unmitigated & gross negligence.
In my lifetime, I have watched my generations become youth, and live out their youth & eventually no longer classified as youth, still crying out for the same things: more opportunities to better their lives.
Only those that scream loud enough and break enough things are heard, so they are quickly co-opted with some “opportunities” or “board seats” and suddenly silenced.
This is how the system is engineered: If you're silent, you may starve. If you scream, you get co-opted.
But the truth is, the majority were, and many still are, left outside the system.
An entire generation lost.
The country's Overton window is fast closing.
And the only thing our leaders can offer is sampled below.
🚨 When a kid’s 12V toy turns into a 72V BEAST… this pink G-Wagon rips like a full-size monster truck! 😂💨
I don’t know about you, but I’d love to have friends like this. 🤣