What's the issue?

What with reports that would have us believe that Jacob is trying to kill the economy, laughing sarcastically into the microphone while delivering his state of the nation address. "How's the economy? He he he" this is no laughing matter. People are struggling to feed their families, battling to clothe their children and educate them so that they may have a better life. Sure it is not an easy job being president, but it must be so much easier to instil a sense of confidence in a struggling economy than just laughing at it and letting it slide even further. Then to state that the Zimbabwe elections were free and fair while all the world is pointing at the glaringly obvious, would it not be easier to just not make a comment at all. Or maybe I'm being a little too harsh, maybe the elections were free and fair. Just maybe.

Elsewhere Vavi sticks his mtondo where it does not belong and sets in motion a chain of events that further destabilises our nation, an already very unstable nation without his indiscretions. No one is perfect, not even me, but the way he has reacted to this scandal smacks of selfish motives and not the interests of the working masses he touts as his wand of power.

A leading international newspaper is running a headline that shouts out about 20 years of mega fraud when a company First Strut imploded leaving a crater of debt and destruction. While this issue is imploding or is it exploding, another person has paid with their life in the Marikana debacle. With all this going on Madam Helen continues to support Angie, like flogging a dead horse hoping it will get up and continue to teach the children. If the panties fit then wear them.

So having shredded the local scene let's look abroad at how our leadership is leading us astray. Still smarting over the spying scandal, I wonder how na•ve you have to be to lead a country? But besides Brazil threatening to cancel their fighter plane order from the US and Karry getting a lambasting, some brilliant politicians are about to give Monsanto's genetically modified maize the go ahead to be grown across the European Union. Forget the money, forget war, this, in my opinion, is the end of us.

Would't it be wonderful if Mandela could come back to where he was in 1992? Even if it was just his spirit that infiltrated the leadership of this crazy world