No hope as we’re robbed blind

WE ARE a nation of thieves. Corruption and looting of state funds and resources have become endemic. Like a plague of locusts sweeping the country, they devour everything in their path. No government department, parastatal, local council or public institution can lift its head up high and say to the nation it's clean from corruption, mismanagement and wasteful expenditure.

Even during pre-ANC days I know of principals who used to steal but it was on a minuscule scale and what we may call petty thieving. Now with one of the most corrupt governments in the world what must be happening at schools and hospitals now that the floodgates have been opened?

Look at Eskom, once the engine room of our economy. Load shedding is leaving the public and business exasperated. Before we heard the power generation plants couldn’t cope with the demand and they tripped. Then we heard some of power plants had to be shut down for repairs and maintenance. Now we hear maintenance equipment to the value of R1 billion has been stolen at one power station, leaving the nation without lights for four hours a day.

The Guptas have fled with the loot and the Zondo Commission has named and exposed the government officials implicated in state capture.

We thought we would now see the end of the tsunami of corruption that swept through the country but even under Ramaphosa there’s no end in sight. There is still widespread looting. Not one of the big boys has yet been manacled and dragged to court to face the wrath of the nation. Rainbow nation? My foot!