SABC, SAA in ruin, thanks to Zuma

WE SUFFER because of stupidity. Abrahamic epistemology surmises that the Creator has no reason to harm his own creation.

Humans suffer because we harm ourselves and each other. Using this analogy regarding state capture and the financial losses at most parastatals, the answers are obvious. For years, those in charge at the SABC used taxpayers’ money as if the cash was limitless.

People who made a partial input were promoted and billions were paid in salaries while the content quality of the SABC declined.

The SABC cannot post a licence card to its paid-up subscribers. Now 1 000 SABC employees must be fired as those in authority wasted billions and they were, in truth, useless.

The same logic applies at South African Airways where 16 turnaround strategies in 20 years created more problems.

In both cases, some of those liable for the chaos left the SABC and SAA. However, many stupid people who know little about managing a business remain in charge.

The question is: what do the two examples have in common.

The answer is former president Jacob Zuma.

At the SABC, the private imbongi (praise singer) of Zuma was former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

At the SAA it was Dudu Myeni, former chairperson of SAA and alleged girlfriend of Zuma and the executive chairperson of the Jacob G Zuma Foundation since 2008.

Ironically, nothing has or will happen to these two who ultimately drove two state parastatals into ruin and cost other people their jobs. It helps to have political connections and no conscience.