What goes around

The one thing that the art of bonsai has taught me is patience. I have been patient for 22 long years and finally see Karma coming to fruition.
Back then, several avid, narcissistic, glory-seeking ANC councillors encouraged groups of black people to peg sites and squat on land in Shakashead belonging to many predominantly Indian families, as well as two plots belonging to whites. A legal battle lasting 10 years ensued complete with offers to buy, threats of expropriation, a combat force demolishing all the shacks and an offer of exchange for land elsewhere. In the end the landowners ‘won’ their case with the municipality having to fork out a hell of a lot more than what they envisaged paying.
And so, thanks to those councillors, it was the start of the settlement of many belonging to the criminal element. Proof of which is constantly read about in the form of rapes, murders, stabbings, babies dumped in latrines, not to mention that lovely picture displayed on the front page of the North Coast Courier (February 26, 2016).
What are they trying to prove? Why pick on innocent people travelling on foot, in vehicles or on rail when you have a gripe with an incompetent ward councillor? Why a massive boulder on the railway line? Why try to burn nearby factories which provide work and block main roads with burning tyres and branches? Appalling! The the past has indeed come back to haunt the ANC.
Let us hope that the peaceful, civilised people left in Shakashead finally see the light and vote the ANC out. It is not Mandela’s ANC, it is now seriously pathetic, like Zuma. They will definitely not rule for the one thousand years or ‘til the coming of Jesus Christ.
AL BORSEI
Umhlali