Need vision, expertise
WE CAN learn a lot from the Greece debacle, the Zimbabwean one and the increasing risk that our own country will follow suit.
Yes, there are dissimilarities and the issue needs to be analysed in a balanced way. But, at base level, we can safely assess that these countries all made a similar gross mistake. Closed-up views on how a (party controlled) country should be ruled and regulated, and applying such boxed views without considering the way the world works and develops, gradually open the way to a deteriorating society. And the world takes no prisoners.
It is time to discard outdated paradigms. To deem democracy and meaning majority rule as the only power game is, in modern context, a huge evolutionary mistake. The world is immensely complicated and competitive and no president, no cabinet, no hordes of loyal occupiers of Parliament benches, are fully empowered to assess or regulate reality in a manner that does not have a sectorial, sectarian element in the fabric of ongoing decisionmaking. That is exactly what the vultures out there are waiting for.
They know that mistakes will be made, that such a society will weaken and opportunities will arise.
This, in Zimbabwe, in Greece and in South Africa, has been to the immense discomfort and pain of many people who are either not part of the selective in-group or shrewd enough to wangle reality to their benefit, as they are just caught up in despair and hopelessness.
We cannot afford to play school, doctor doctor, and deem life as such a “pleasant state of affairs” any longer.
In Parliament these days there is much yelling and thoughtless support – mere circus entertainment. People need, thorough principled, unbiased and dedicated leadership, to change a stagnating economy, deteriorating infrastructure and inadequate schooling so that we may face the future.
No, we need futuristic vision and sharp approaches to better our society.
Not those easy slogans of apartheid of the West being the only culprits.
Get all knowledgeable people with real expertise involved to change this drifting ship around.