South Africa

When you're on fire you're on fire :

With the municipal elections safely out of the way, our political life is subsiding back to normal. An eternally grateful Mr Mbeki has been released from his disagreeable four weeks of country-arrest, and is back striding the world stage on our behalf. SABC news department loyalists no longer have to traipse around the lower end of the democratic compass recording their master’s every piety for reproduction in inspiring quarter-hour instalments each evening at seven. But for Eskom, these would have been electrifying as well.

Relieved of the exigencies of the municipal hustings, members of the central executive of the African National Congress are now able to get back to more crucial matters. And none more crucial than deciding who from among ANC ranks is going to be elected to lead the party’s new and imaginative campaign of moral degeneration.

This extraordinary volte-face has become necessary by force of circumstance. The mandarins of the ANC are acknowledging that, from among their ranks, only someone of Jacob Zuma’s singular qualities could ever have been charged with the regeneration and reinforcement of a nation’s moral texture. There was good reason for appointing him to flush out and purify the national soul. He was the only one among the ranks of the ruling party -- or their hangers-on -- of the requisite ethical fortitude. He was top of the heap, the very acme of probity and restraint. Together with his disciples in the ANC Youth League, Jacob Zuma jealously occupied South Africa’s moral uplands. Sadly, with his attentions now diverted by other and graver personal issues, he has left both his political brothers and a nation bereft. We now have only one way to go: back down into the sewers. If the ANC Youth League have their way we won’t even have a bitch to burn on the way....

 

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