Rudderless SA marked by greed

The ruling ANC party is in political shambles, as the edifice of a once magnificent movement shatters in pieces. President Cyril Ramaphosa has administered his party’s last rites, as it hurtles towards a painful death, and spirals into political oblivion.

Our embattled nation is being rocked by gargantuan revelations about the state of the nation and its shattered institutions. Parliament’s speaker, the most powerful woman in SA, is the latest casualty.

Before the love of money, our politics was about passion, imagination and foresight. In today’s bizarre political environment, it’s all about greed, lust for power and malignant accountancy. In our nation’s political discourse, it is impossible to avoid the smell of cash.

Many in our fractured land have become disoriented with the business of politics. The duplicity, insincerity and condescension is sickening and insulting. It has become necessary for of us to redefine our democracy because the politics of deceit has demoralised us by substituting false and fake politicians as our saviours, and erodes our political systems.

Our future looks bleak, and as winter approaches, unless serious actions are taken, we will face a devastating national cataclysm that could dismember the economy, and usher in turmoil unprecedented in our recorded history. We are currently rudderless, visionless, spineless and careless as we lurch into a cauldron of despair.

Our economy is wrecked, energy distribution is dimming by the hour, vandalism and looting continue unabated; thievery has become a fulltime occupation. When the sleeping giant of poverty awakens, every vestige of civilisation will cease to exist. The peril that lies ahead is mind-boggling. Our comfort zones will turn into islands of desolation.