What is the issue

Speculation is rife with accusations that the Guptas fleeing planet Zupta and getting involved with Oakbay Energy and the associated Shiva Uranium mine was all a well thought out way for Oakbay's shares to soar once the nuclear power plants were installed by Russia's Rosatom nuclear power plant installers. The speculation seems to support a theory that the Nene Finance minister debacle was just the Gupta's appointing a finance minister who would approve the nuclear deal that could have cost our country as much as one trillion and six hundred million Rand. I wonder if Jacob can say that number?

As if that is not enough they are baying for his blood from every corner, even in his own one. Zuma's son Duduzane had purchased the Uranium mine for a severely knocked down price and the deal was financed by the IDC after the Public Investment Corporation declined to finance the deal.

Then there are the fanciful rumours that the whole load shedding debacle was just a scam to win the hearts and minds of the public to buy into the nuclear deal. Imagine if that were even half true. The Guptas would have been torn to shreds if evidence of such deceit had ever surfaced. Absurd as the rumour is, it has an element of plausibility that seems to fit into the crazy shenanigans that have been going on in our political landscape lately.

One political landscape that is spiralling even further out of control than ours is the ISIS problem in Afghanistan. "There are now 10,000 IS fighters in Afghanistan. A year ago there was a hundred. This growth over a year is spectacular," Zamir Kabulov, the head of Russian foreign ministry for Asia and the Middle East said recently. Even the Taliban is losing personnel to the group.

The English Prime Minister has his hands full with a decision of weather to stay in the EU or to leave and spend all that lovely sterling on themselves. Their Justice Secretary, Michael Gove used such entertaining sarcastic wit when he explained how the stay campaigners were using scare tactics and treating the British population like they were children. I had to laugh. He was so cool. Personally I think the EU is going to scam the British people of so many billions of sterling if they stay in the Union.

I was really appalled at the IOL reporter who used what can be described as cheap journalist tricks to twist King Zwelithini's words, saying he was praising the apartheid regime when what he was actually doing was denigrating the post apartheid handling of the resources and potential of our beautiful country, South Africa.