Month: May 2016

“All hands on deck”

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“All Hands on Deck” is defined as an order to every member of a ship’s crew to report to the deck immediately, usually in an emergency.

What is happening in our country at the moment requires this. It is an “all hands on deck” moment which means that you stop whatever it is that you are doing, whatever seems important now, and do what is required. It is a phase so imperative that if you don’t do it, that which was and is important will not matter anymore.

Perhaps we shouldn’t look too far – many countries on the African continent went through the same stages and today their governments struggle to keep their countries functioning. Our story is not a new one, ours is probably going to be one of foolishness where in the face of so many examples, we will have become like many on the continent.

The thing about the “all hands on deck” command is that it is called by the Captain and everybody already knows what they need to do. In our country you can say that many are trying to give this instruction/order/recommendation but they are not recognised. They are not the Captains of the ship. Who then gives the “all hands on deck” command when the emergency that has to be dealt with is the fault of the Captain and even worse those that are close to him? That means you that you cannot even rely on the second in command.

Such is the story that is unfolding right in front of our eyes, where those that are about to sink with the ship are not aware of the “all hands on deck” command and don’t even know what they would have to do even if they did. The ship cannot be steered in any direction of safety because the bridge (control room) itself is occupied by those that are to blame for what is happening.

We need leadership, the kind that will break down the door to the bridge and take over, the kind that will do the unimaginable because the imaginable seems worse than the unimaginable. We are like a house owner watching their house burn. What’s even worse is that we are standing with buckets filled with water, but we are just to dumbfounded by the flames.

I think young people should lead us, the old people are old. And we all know what being old means.

“All hands on deck”. What does this mean? It means that we have reached that moment. Even if we realise now that we have reached that point,
whatever actions we take will not be about saving our country, it will just be about saving the little that’s left of it.

“All hands on deck”

Zuma must not fall……

If only i could add an emoticon, it would be that brown one that looks like a monkey that has its hands over its eyes. How fitting. But seriously now, and i think i am not alone here but of course i think different reasons would be sighted(hope this word is right, trying to be smart here, but i am sure you get the drift) for why we would not want Zuma to go. Look I am that Guy vele, the one who easily and always says he must go, yeah, and whenever there was something new like the Con Court decision, i become that guy that does not say anything but i know that many are saying, Given o boletse. So i become that Guy who is seen to be sangomic in nature and it is very nice to be right, you know what i mean.

But i am changing my mind, NO, i did not get a tender or i have not been promised anything (that emoticon again would be appropriate here). The thing is i have just landed on the word “narrative” this past week and also read somewhere that at the end of the day its all about “who’s story wins.”

Look at it this way, yes the President has admitted to some wrong doing and even apologised (emoticon inserted), but there is more to this especially if you take the time to look outside these issues. There is a clear narrative that black = corruption, or black = incompetence. The interesting thing about this now is that such thinking is made prominent by the very blacks. Give them twitter and data and you will see them going on and on with their racial suicide.

So, Russia is heavily sanctioned, Brazil which less than 2 years ago was doing very well economically is not doing well now, and then you have South Africa where we just speak of how the President must fall, and we sit there that this is our own thinking. We sit and wait for the media to tell us the agenda of the day, and then we follow with the #hashtags. I am not suggesting that what is going on is Ok, but i do think we need to always understand the forces at play. These forces have always been at play as revealed in the past two days, the involvement of the USA and the UK in the South African politics. So, could it be that all this is manufactured by the USA to try and distabilize BRICS, maybe………..I think it is.

This narrative does not put Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma as an incompetent human being, it actually says that anything that is run by black people does not work and they are corrupt. WE are all corrupt also. This may be true to some extent and we definitely have an excuse for such, but it is wrong for this message to be spread by the very same black people that are accused of such.

It is an unfortunate narrative, I think we need self love. We are a race incapable of loving itself and it is disgusting.

Jansen has fallen, and I am happy…..

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what are we waiting for?

 

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The behaviour of the ANC and the way things are in general is getting worse. But we are also to blame, yes you, don’t look for someone else, you. Most of us who sit there and critisize are to blame for this and i am not for a second suggesting that we need to change who we vote for. Frankly i do think any political party will just mess things up more. It cannot continue like this where it is left to the politicians to decide our fate, well they have already and it is not good.  Continue reading “what are we waiting for?”