“The situation in South Africa is
not right!”
Hmm, well, yes. It’s about time
someone in the ANC Government has noticed that.
“There is evil in South Africa.”
Now you’re talking, madam
Minister.
“It seems that the Devil is loose
in South Africa. We need to do something about it.”
How did this usually obtuse
Minister know that? She must have been listening to my informant, a driver for
a motor dealer, who ferries me from the dealership to my office while they work
on my car. He has told me his opinion, and that of many of his friends. This
Black gentleman, a man truly deserving of the designation, has a firm opinion
on the cause for the devastation brought about in the politics, the economy and
the racial relationships of South Africa in recent years.
“That man is evil,” he said. “I
think that he must be the Anti-Christ. He promises us many good things, but he
brings nothing. He lies, he misleads, he causes problems between us. He talks
of God blessing him and his Party, and yet, look at what he does.” He thought
for a minute as he steered us carefully through the heavy morning traffic. “I
think he is the Anti-Christ.”
I nodded my head in
understanding. I can understand his reasoning, but, the Anti-Christ? Is that
not a bit extreme? Even so, I feel desperately for this good man, for the fact
that he feels compelled to tell me, a White, that his leader, the man who has
appropriated the mantle of near-holiness that enshrouded Nelson Mandela, is the
worst of all possible men.
And then Susan Shabangu made it
all clear to me, and to the nation. She must be close enough to the man to know
him. And she has said it in unambiguous terms. “There is evil in South Africa.
It seems that the Devil is loose in South Africa. We need to do something about
it.”
There is a saying, that the fish
stinks from the head. The top man in an organization sets the tone for all his
subordinates, and they follow that lead religiously. We have clear evidence of
that in South Africa. It is practically not possible to talk with people
without the subjects of economic collapse, racial tension and corruption coming
up. They are like the weather. Everyone talks about them, but no-one feels that
she can do anything about them. It seems that the problems are just so huge
that no single person can do anything about them. And the worst of it is that
practically everyone feels the same. Blacks and Whites do not hate each other.
In fact, with the rare exception of ANC or EFF-motivated weak minds, they get
on well together, and they want nothing more than to have those lunatics stop
blathering about their differences, so that they can put their shoulders to the
wheel and rescue our shared country from the bleak depths it seems to be headed
towards. There are no differences. We are all South Africans, and let’s leave
it at that. When Zuma blathers on about how evil the Whites are, how White
Monopoly Capital is at fault for the unemployment flowing from the insane
Communist policies of the ANC, how he and his Party have a policy to fight
corruption, we all, Black and White, feel like throwing up, not because the
statement has even a semblance of truth, which it does not, but because he
occupies a position that we should all respect. And cannot. And now we know,
from the horse’s mouth, why that is so.
I hope that Susan Shabangu
survives long enough to tell the ANC NEC about it. And that they are not yet so
ensnared in his wiles that they can believe her. Phineas, the driver, and his
friends will be ready to confront the Anti-Christ if that is needed to save our
beloved country from the evil that has beset it since Jacob Zuma became the
President. As will I. We would all be willing to give our lives, if, by doing
that, we could make the country what it should be, for our families and friends,
All of them, Black and White.
I hope that it will not be necessary.
We will know by next week.
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