IT is now confirmed: The world is going cuckoo.
There is little doubt that all our leaders have been studying a book by Ken Kesey or watching the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
In about 1975, the movie scored no fewer than five academy awards and has since been declared one of the greatest films ever made.
One only has to Google ‘quotes’ from the movie to see that the likes of Donald Duck (sorry, Trump) and Biliary (sorry, Hillary) Clinton are fans:
“But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen,” could apply to them and most politicians.
Picture the scene: Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) strapped to a bed for shock therapy in a mental institution with the scary Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) pasting some sort of conducting agent to his temples: “A little dab’ll do yer,” he says.
Then they turn on the switch and he goes into convulsions…. just like the rest of the world is doing right now after countless ‘shocks’. Think Nice, Munich, Turkey….
Just in: An employee at an old age home in Japan stabs 19 people to death and injures 27 others, shouting: “The disabled must die!”
That ‘little dab’ quote also sprang to mind watching a video this week of President Jacob Zuma who has now taken to ‘dabbing’, apparently to win over younger voters.
It’s a bizarre dance, in which one drops one’s head, raising a bent arm to hide one’s face in the crook of the elbow.
Even Cyril Ramaphosa and Gwede Mantashe have been doing the ‘dab’ while on their election campaigns.
They obviously believe ‘a little dab’ll do em’ next Wednesday. The ‘umshini wami’ shuffle is so ‘yesterday’.
However, some believe they they will be in for a ‘real’ shock, especially in major metros like Nelson Mandela Bay and Tswane and in Gauteng.
But the status quo is expected to prevail in Ugu and the Hibiscus Coast (Ray Nkonyeni) councils. Not to say that should discourage anyone from doing their civic duty by paying a visit to the poll booth. Tick first, braai later.
What a welcome relief it will be when the final results are announced, not necessarily because of the outcome, but to give our community leaders (whoever they may be) an opportunity to actually ‘lead’ for the next five years and not worry about being killed by jealous opponents.
Then we can stop calling people ‘monkeys’ or ‘snakes’ or ‘cockroaches’ and concentrate on our joint ‘strengths’ instead of constantly blaming each other for our ‘weaknesses’.
We should build on the ‘opportunities’ and counter the ‘threats’.
The strategy is called: ‘SWOT’.
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