The Mercury

Award Nobel Peace Prize posthumous­ly

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TOO many “noble” people who were awarded the Nobel Prize turned out later to be belonging to some rogue gallery.

Alfred Noble himself invented dynamite for mining purposes but it, soon enough, began to be used for underminin­g life and for land mines.

Albert Einstein was a master of E=mc2 but Putin wants to put in his ruble’s worth now and use that equation to haul all of us to that chocolate factory in the sky.

Painlessly. (Most euthanaisi­c-nuclear explosions instantly destroy braincells and all ill feelings at the speed of light.)

Poor Willem de Klerk, after giving in to outside armed forces, and inside disarming ones, still gets hauled through hectic mudslides even after death.

The evil just cannot be wiped off, as complained by Lady Macbeth. Obama’s premature award of the No-Prize was the height of premeditat­ed wisdom by the Swedish/Norwegian Eskimos.

He flattened that northern tip of Africa, all the while screaming “Liberate Libya!” in one night. Squeezing the life out of Gaddafi’s vitals through slimy drainpipes.

Something that even Nazi-propelled giants like Mussolini, the speakers of good English – the British, the French with their (FL) French Letter Tower and even the ever-loving Ethrugulis­h Ottomans, were unable to do over centuries.

Of course, there have been so many other equally, so-noble prize winners, like Aung San Suu Kyi, who sent the hapless Rohinga Refugees into a never-never land. (Nobody, but nobody wants these people!).

So there you are.

I rest my case.

Nobel Prizes, especially the Peaceful Ones, should be awarded only posthumous­ly because the worms can turn.

Sometimes even just before, themselves, becoming worm fodder. EBRAHIM ESSA | Durban

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