Ron’s Thoughts …

I watch horse racing on TV and whichever horse wins, the jockey, the owner, the trainer, the groom are all called up to the mike to say something.

I watch rugby on TV and whichever team wins, the two captains, the two coaches, the TV presenters are all called up to the mike to say something.

I watch cricket and golf and soccer and tennis on TV and always people are required to make a speech.

I wonder if the speech-making and the grand-standing detracts from the merits of the win ?

Who is running the country ?

Jacob Zuma and the ANC who profess to being democratic ?

The SACP, ‘South African Communist Party’ who cling to a failed ideology ?

Cosatu, the Trade Unionists who are endlessly out on strike ?

Or an unholy alliance between the three of them who have only joined forces to entrench their hold on power.

Maybe it is the loudmouthed uncouth Julius Malema, the 29-year old President of the ANC Youth League who wants to bankrupt the country by nationalising the mines and the farms ?

The answer is ‘None of Them’.

The country is being run by a bunch of opportunists who are all individually out to enrich themselves.

“Affirmative Action”, morality, culture and the so-called ‘Liberation Struggle’ are just vote-catching smokescreens to bluff the uneducated masses into blind, unquestioning support and to keep themselves in positions of power and privilege.

God help us.