‘Truth and Bed Committee’ could be step 1 to help the homeless

WE FIND ourselves in a critical time, when our president is wrong and Zille is right. Colonialism was not all that bad. In fact it was excellent and highly profitable for these idiots that arrived here more than 600 years ago.

The matter has become very complex and it is towards seeking solutions for this sorry state of affairs and dealing with the major ills of our society.

Everyone will cry out that I am deranged and must let go of the past and move on. The day I do that I will be condoning the greatest crime and will have to accept that these criminals got away with the entire theft of my country of birth.

And if I may add, not just the land but all its resources as well. Now in the interests of peaceful discussion I will open the matter of the land.

Since independence this issue has got out of hand, but none the less we find ourselves in a tricky situation which will require radical new thought streams.

To this end I am of the opinion that our people do not need land anymore, witnessing daily the plight of the homeless people throughout South Africa has led me to the conclusion that people need a bed firstly and then we can equally discuss sharing our land.

The homeless continue to grow and yet there are thousands of beds available so a new approach must be utilised.

The UN and the Independent Electoral Committee could oversee a “Truth and Bed Committee” a process which should not take longer than six months.

To further equal the playing fields and level out the double standards as practised within our society, “shack dwellings” must be outlawed.

A registration process should begin immediately. In the face of the emergency that the homeless face in this much anticipated “storm”, to relieve the plight of the flushing toilet people, all state hospitals should become a centre of refuge for the homeless. Additional accommodation should be acquired via the state through the block booking of hotels and resorts to house the people in the short term. Once the “Truth and Bed Committee” is done the people will be moved to residential accommodation and we can move on to the next issue at hand.

Our political system of governance must stop immediately. This method that we have adopted from the colonial history must be abolished.

We will have a government and Parliament etc. but there will be no more pomp and ceremony and these ridiculous amounts that our trustworthy politicians have allocated themselves as a remuneration package.

Mandela started this rot in our system and in his memory we should stop it. Comrade Zuma, you are wrong. Radical Economic Transformation will not help the homeless for the next 100 years but it will further the economic divide which already registers as one of the widest in the world so a suggestion would be “Radical Societal Transformation.”

Education can only be free when it is equal and it must be free so we have to make it equal.

All Model C and private schools must be audited and optimised then they must adopt a school into which they must place equal resources to increase the equality in the means of education to all our youth.

Five major universities should develop out of the debate on free and equal education.

Our economic affairs are in a total mess. The majority of our population has been sidelined from the economic activity that has transpired over the past few hundred years so at this point our economy belongs to “white monopoly and minority capital”.

Great inroads have been made by many in the last few years to adapt and succeed in this economic system that sees success as greed whereby the hungry and homeless scavenge in the waste bins of these “successful ones”.

Yet no success can be achieved unless we redress the issues of the arrival of the Dutch and with great haste remove all monuments allocated to them and then deal with the consequent hordes of settlers and prisoners that flooded here.

The Red Necks, the French Huguenots, the Italian prisoners of war, the Portuguese all came flocking because the land was free, all you had to do was kill the people. This is well documented in history.

The wealth of our country is owned by less than 10% of our population. Immediate economic transformation would begin by taking control of the plight of the homeless and the return of the people to the areas they were evicted from under the Group Areas Act and Native Land Act.

This would go with a concise and well organised “Truth and Bed Committee” to undertake the audit to make sure that our people are safely in bed at night as the flushing toilet people pray for a storm.