Bloody politicians, crewing up SA!

South African politics lost meaning the very same day (April, 27, 1994) hopeful citizens waited in long queues to vote for “a better life for all”. The blood of those who fought for that day was in vain and they must be turning on their graves as I write this piece. Shame on our selfish political leaders.

Nowadays, when the black elite morons who live lavishly in suburbs visit the townships, they feel discomfort over a “group of suspicious youth standing in a street corner.” More often than not, this group of “suspicious” young minds is conversing about their dreams of making it big one day and our visionless politicians who have crewed up our beloved country left, right and centre since the dawn of democracy in 1994. 




Citizens protesting against crippled service delivery,
thanks to our useless politicians. Photo: supplied

  In these street corner conversations, you often hear young people accusing one another: “Do not think you can do better, you would also tell lies if you were a politician; that’s the name of the game.” It is therefore confusing to observe that young people in this day and age look up to people who continuously cripple the country with no mercy whatsoever. South African border gates have become a useless mechanism as dodgy foreign nationals get in and out of our motherland as they please. These opportunists are well-known drug lords in the streets of Hillbrow and many other SA big cities, yet no politician has ever bothered to speak out against such.

Our education system and public health care are mediocre and as such no politician goes to a public hospital when ill, neither none of their children attend public schools. Surprisingly, it is these very politicians who exploit every platform given to them by media calling for “heads must roll” to those responsible for not delivering textbooks in Limpopo schools until forced to do the right thing by a court of law. All they do is talk, talk and talk while deep inside they are laughing at “stupid uneducated masses who can’t smell coffee”.

Masses are not stupid and the day shall come where we shall unite and say enough is enough. Ministers throw expensive birthday parties and establish foundations which their real meaning remains unknown. Some youth leaders say this today and the exact opposite tomorrow but claim to championing the needs of the poor masses, how do we trust such hypocrites? Others misuse public money and insist they are innocent, only to admit the truth when media pressure mounts. One is left with a question: do our politicians have what is called conscious?

A “mistake president” attends an SACP (South African Clowns Party) congress and talks about "many who do not understand democracy. One begs to ask him/herself this: does Zuma himself understand democracy? Our leaders are preoccupied about who will emerge victorious in the next conference while a hopeless graduate struggle to make ends meet. This one tells that one to tie his shoe laces while his remain untied. Its policy conference after another and less execution. We are told “the state does not have the necessary resources to make change overnight,” while on the contrary municipalities and provincial departments return to the national treasury millions of unused money.

Cadre deployment continues to fail the poor, yet we have to argue with SAMWU about getting rid of the system. The first citizen tries to be a sweetheart to everyone in the tripartite alliance; all that is in his head is reelection in the next conference. MPs pitch in the parliament only when it suits them, but fact remains their bank accounts go obese come month end. After all this, when citizens in rural areas and black townships run riot for the below par service delivery, some stupid politician jumps to the stage: “comrades, you must be patient, plans are in place to fast track service delivery in this area and these things take time.” Hello, wake up and smell coffee Mr Liar, it’s been 18 years and you have been singing the same song out of tune. One day is one day and the voice of the masses shall prevail.