A cultivated political strategy

TO UNDERSTAND a set-up, one must think outside the proverbial mental box.

The best way to steal vast sums is to get many people to allocate money to one place, then rob that place.

Those who planned the theft at VBS Bank allowed municipalities and poor folk to deposit their cash until there was enough to steal.

The effect on poor black depositors was not a concern.

Oddly, after the theft, politicians who are now implicated started emitting politicisms (political utterance and the theory that political factors dominate over other considerations).

Some said VBS Bank could not be permitted to fail since it was a black bank that served poor, black people.

Ironically, VBS Bank was robbed by influential black politicians and officials who had promised the black depositors that they (the thieves) would protect the poor depositors from poverty.

So, what does the VBS Bank and current politicisms suggest for our future? It suggests that because a black bank was ruined, it is the duty of “others” to save it.

Similarly, since Eskom and SAA have been robbed regularly over years and are liabilities to taxpayers, it does not suggest taxpayers are exempt from sustaining them and other state-owned enterprises.

The abuse of taxpayers’ money is a side issue to the irony that “politicism” rules and that rational thinking is subject to political utterances. Therefore, when politicians and others rob SOEs and municipalities and respond with political talk, it suggests taxpayers must tolerate this reality.

Civil society must insist on the captivity of those guilty of corruption. If not, we will follow the rest of Africa, where corruption is part of normal life. CLLR YAGYAH ADAMS | Cape Muslim Congress