Is SA amenable to abuse and corruption because as a nation we lack self-respect?
Any proud, confident country would not allow foreigners to loot its resources and manipulate its political leaders
It is hard to imagine any self-respecting country or society allowing itself to be abused and taken for a ride to the extent we do in South Africa.
Maybe we are a tad featherbrained and bereft of self-respect and therefore deserve the contempt that comes our way.
Can you imagine any country that would allow a foreign family to come in, capture its head of state, his ministers, the seat of government, take control of other state institutions, loot state-owned enterprises, promote criminality and get away with it, for years?
I can’t think of any. In fact, the ones I am familiar with would throw you in jail or out of their country before you could say “Gupta”. They would do that because they respect themselves, their country and their sovereignty.
Could it be that because we lack confidence and pride in ourselves we are amenable to abuse and manipulation? That we crave for and embrace anything foreign, even if it is nonsense and injurious to us?
How come a crooked family can come from India, capture SA’s president and some of his ministers, move the seat of government from the Union Buildings to their home, and all 55 million of us can do is to march in protest while the family continues with its shenanigans?
Is it because a British company called Bell Pottinger throws a useless bone at us called “white monopoly capital” that we jumped onto one another’s throats? The governing party spent valuable days at Nasrec fighting over this.
Instead of devoting time and energy towards finding solutions to the variety of problems besetting our country, the delegates split hairs. The Guptas and Bell Pottinger must have had a good laugh as they admired their handiwork.
Some Gupta-hired guns, masquerading as militant warriors against “white monopoly capital”, attacked and abused journalists for daring to write about the looting family.
Does it not remind you of the so-called black-on-black violence of the past where a third force was said to be hatching schemes that pitted us against one another?
We still remember how the racist regime used to close media outlets, harass, detain, torture and resort to all manner of dirty tricks against journalists in order to prevent the media from doing its work.
The whole idea was to prevent relevant information reaching citizens. How different is that from what the Gupta goons are doing?
It is telling that all those who shout about “white monopoly capital” pretend to be radical revolutionaries. Where were they hibernating all these years? Does it mean they knew nothing about it until Bell Pottinger planted it in their heads?
Do they perhaps think we would not recognise their rantings as a mere fig-leaf to cover the looting of national resources? In pursuit of their large-scale plunder of our national resources, they are managing to defile, cripple and hobble institutions in the criminal justice system.
The NPA and Hawks are not only useless, they are now rogue and dangerous to the survival of the state.
Only a fool would not connect these institutions to the burglaries at their own premises and those of the Chief Justice.
It is not only the governing party that should hang its head in shame over our meek surrender to a handful of foreign elements who came to destroy our country, its institutions and steal our sovereignty and our resources.
The governing party bears greater responsibility simply because we have entrusted control of the state to it, but the country belongs to us and we should brook no nonsense.
To restore our national integrity and dignity, we should insist on the arrest and prosecution of all these crooks without any further delay. The thieving family should have its suspiciously granted naturalisation revoked and be expelled forthwith from our shores.
Above all, let’s stop being victims of foreign manipulations.
‘‘ The NPA and Hawks now dangerous to the state