Sisulu’s gobbledygook an insult to a nation

THE Minister of of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu must be suffering from a severe bout of cognitive dissonance, if not acute delusional paranoia.

She is quoted as saying that when she left Nkandla, after spending all of 30 or 40 minutes there, that all was in order – that “there were a few people not following health protocols” and that the “commentary by the media was false” and further, when she was assessing the area, “people were following the health regulations”.

Without bordering on the cynical or the sarcastic, where do we find the calibre of ministers such as Sisulu, who, in the face of national television visuals, can distort, manufacture and spew gobbledygook like she does?

Major television networks carried visuals all day long and like millions I was privy to such visuals, and Minister Sisulu had to be on another planet.

To make the ludicrous even more bizarre, she is quoted as saying, "I want to disagree with people who say the matter yesterday was in defiance of rules and regulations".

This is disturbing and frightening that a minister of the government could utter such falsehoods publicly, when the truth and facts were glaringly evident for all to see.

Her jiggery-pokery in trying to palliate what was despicable effrontery by people who paid scant regard to the raging pandemic that is afflicting this country, and to distort the reality by making judgement on the messenger of the news in the manner in which she did, is an utter disgrace and her comments must be impugned.

Sadly, in South Africa anything goes, no matter who you are but such verbiage from a sitting minister is the kind of poppycock we must come to expect.

Who was Minister Sisulu trying to protect or cover up for?

NARENDH GANESH | Durban North