Weekly Round Up - 22 July 2010

The Games South Africans Play

Its entirely up to you to decide whether South Africans are a bunch of walnuts, broccoli or mushrooms!!!

What good is it observing Nelson Mandela day when in the last week an old couple from the Kwa- Zulu Natal south coast was murdered and stuffed in the booth of their car,
when Kya Sands erupted in xenophobic violence with 16 people being attacked and calls for the army to be brought in,
farm-attackers set free by the court because of a botched investigation in Hartswater; a man in PE killed by robbers, his body, alongside his beaten up elderly parents, locked in a freezer; a toddler in KZN having his penis cut off and his tongue cut out, probably for muti, left for dead in KZN. Teachers abandoning the classrooms for the looming strike, this in the wake of the proud declaration that more than 9 000 KZN science teachers are unqualified to teach their subject, and presumably the highlight in the observances and reasons why we propagate the values of Madiba - we now hear that Zindzi Mandela was attacked in the evening of Mandela day in her driveway... Tsch Tsch Tsch!!!

Yes- South Africa is back and whatever your game- the sounds of the vuvuzela has been replaced with the rampant cries of fear, pain and loss from victims of violence and of course the gunfire of unlicensed firearms...

Well done to Louis Oosthuizen on his British Open victory - but more so, well done on his caddy Zack Rasego who managed to save his job after this victory. No strike action could have saved him, no muti, no BEE policy - it was just up to his skill and how he advised Louis that earned him in excess of R900K and the chance to keep his job... Rasego's example should be spoken of in this context in the media and perhaps the rest of the trade unions and their members in this country will realise that with a little hard work- the rewards will follow...

Lets hope that common sense breaches faster than that whale in Table Bay, when it breached onto the vessel Intrepid, and we can get back to being a dignified people in a country ruled by the values of a Madiba rather than the madmen who currently hold rein.

Peace!