There is no turning back for SA

In true South African tradition, we wait until something breaks down completely before we decide to try and fix it. The present governmental crisis should have been attended to decades ago. But, then again, we live in a “funny democracy” (Zuma’s words) where incompetent cadres are given massive golden handshakes and plush new jobs, and suspended cadres are given leave on full pay for years – doing nothing.

Teenagers are allowed consensual sex, and then there is shock and disbelief when thousands of young girls fall pregnant. Unwanted babies are thrown down pit latrines or into dustbins, but nobody is ever arrested for infanticide.

Dagga may now be grown for private use, when drug addicLaws tion is a scourge on our society. Vital university infrastructure is destroyed, but nobody is ever convicted.

Billions of rands miraculously disappear yet nobody is ever arrested and convicted.

Mobs are allowed to beat and stone an alleged perpetrator to death, even set alight.

None of these vigilantes are ever apprehended – this is a new form of the death penalty without trial.

And we wonder why we are downgraded to junk status, and the country is on its way to a banana republic. We have indeed crossed the Rubicon and there is no turning back. John, Germiston

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