BELATED kisses to everyone (OK, women only in this case) for Valentine’s Tuesday.
We have it on good authority that our president is still shagged out, not because he was hopping from one wife to the other on Tuesday, but because of stress after much of the political romance went out of his life when he was jilted by the opposition in parliament last week.
The SONA (State of the Nation Address) last Thursday was like a James Bond movie. Skop, skiet and donner for more than an hour and then the boring credits roll while you walk out the theatre… or fall asleep in your recliner, trying to listen to the actual speech.
Photographs showed that several MPs nodded off in the House as well.
Scottburgh homeboy, IFP parliamentarian Narend Singh, looked decidedly nervous, but that’s possibly because he was readying himself to defend his boss, the true gentleman of the House, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who was then tactfully moved away from the pending barney between the ‘red shirts’ and the ‘white shirts’.
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Tonight (Thursday) we have the sequel… SONA 2. Will there be blood when Mr Zee (double O… er…O… er… 7) has a rematch with enemy Number One, ‘M’ (Malema, Julius Malema)? Last week will be a ‘hard hat’ to follow, but most South Africans will still be glued to their screens.
The sad thing is that this ‘movie’ is not doing our beautiful country any favours and, quite frankly, parliament is not a true reflection of what is actually happening on the ground.
There’s still a lot of goodwill out there among people of all races, who are desperately trying to do their bit to make life better for others less fortunate than themselves.
Never mind the many community organisations, churches, etc., which support those who would otherwise have nothing. But many South Coast businesses also take their social responsibility seriously. They would dearly love to grow so that they can employ more people too, but they are often cut off at the knees by red tape, crumbling infrastructure and very apparent apathy of much of our bureaucracy.
What we need is a meeting of minds – private and public – to brainstorm these hurdles to growth and prosperity.
Also, we must all be careful that we don’t get sucked into the ‘tragedy’ that takes centre stage at His President’s Theatre in Cape Town and jeopardise that ‘ubuntu’ that still exists.
Let’s talk, not shout.
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