Six special forces soldiers, accused of murdering a Hawks colonel, have been on the run as fugitives from the police for months now. Nothing in the media.
Two bombs exploded in two Woolworths stores. Nothing in the media about possible suspects or motives. Zilch.
It is horrifying how entitled people are to the income of others.
Vast global bodies and institutions dedicated to demanding that your government seize perhaps half your income (perhaps more), on pain of imprisonment. Essentially a form of enslavement.
This confiscated productivity will then be spent in all manner of opaque and unaccountable ways which you have no say in.
And the moment you vote for someone who puts a stop to it, they call you a murderer.
The Speaker of the National Assembly writes this tripe, and actual lawyers (attorneys and advocates) signed off on it. She pays for all this with our money.
In any sensible legal regime, this kind of jurisprudential gaslighting and dishonesty would cause immediate disbarment.
It's like saying, "Yes the Constitution says the President should be South African, but if you squint your eyes just hard enough you might be able to produce a different conclusion!"
Clownish politics. Clownish jurisprudence.
"I did not join the struggle to be poor."
β Smuts Ngonyama, Former ANC Spokesperson.
The ANC cadre truly said the quiet part out loud when he made his infamous declaration.
This single quote perfectly exposes the transactional nature of the political elite. For them, liberation was never about creating a prosperous nation, growing the economy, or lifting millions of citizens out of poverty. It was simply a vehicle for personal enrichment.
When the ANC took power, government packages and diplomatic perks already guaranteed an incredibly comfortable life. But for cadres like Ngonyama, that wasn't enough.
The billions from state backed Telkom deals proved that legal Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) was never meant to empower the black majority, it was just a gateway to pure, unadulterated greed.
The moment a lucrative, state tied telecom deal appeared on the horizon, the ideals of freedom and equality were instantly traded for corporate shares and fat pockets.
Ngonyama pocketed hundreds of millions from state telecom shares while South Africa's public infrastructure collapsed.
Generous state salaries weren't enough, the ANC cadres simply wanted it all.