What's the Issue?

No! I don't want Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's job, no thank you. With the pressure to pull back his predictions of our economy's growth to as little as 1,5% leaving our economy teetering on the brink of junk status, you would have to wonder, open mouthed, gaping in awe at the thinking that allowed the #FeesMustFall protests to get as far down the road as they already have. I'm not blaming Nene for the late intervention, definitely not, but there is the question of how the sixty two billion Rand budget is split between higher education and so called vocational training.

What would I do? Seeing as I am so clever, as one of my best fans pointed out, I would have snubbed the protest out with a fat injection from the vocational budget right in the beginning of the protest and maybe then Nene's speech would have been less strained. Anything to curb the jittery nerves of the few investors we have left in this country.

But now it is too late, the news that the same guy, who wants the students to fall, withheld a report for the past three years, that shows how free tertiary education is achievable in our economy, must surely be broadcast, and then what? And we must blame the universities? WHAT? If you see me wondering around, looking into the air with my mouth gaping open, my head slowly turning as if I were following the flight of a slowly flying butterfly or as if I were at a fantastic air show, you will know what it is that has got me flummoxed.

Fundamentals Brother! Try getting that right and then we can look at investing billions in unsustainable nuclear power generators.

But all is not lost, hold onto hope, somebody saw the light, or at least saw the screeching drop in tourism brought about by the incredulous visa regulation changes. The child trafficking concerns have been debunked beyond any credibility so we can now hope that the tourism industry recovers from that setback.

Then there is the fantastic news that Tokyo Sexwale is running for the FIFA presidency, wont that be amazing?

So that takes us out of this crazy amazing country into the big wide world where WikiLeaks strikes again with another batch of documents detailing some awe inspiring stuff. The Russian strikes on terrorist targets shed light on the agenda in the Middle East, as does America's stance that they will not work together with Russia in Iraq to defeat IS. Their "Us or Them" stance is a real eye opener, for some people that is. All this in the face of Donald Trump admitting and accusing in the same breath, when he said that the world would be a better place if Saddam Husein and Muammar Gaddafi were still in power.