What's the issue

Well it may have come to it that I submit to the gag. I must open my mouth slowly without any hint of resistance to the gag. You can imagine the type of gag they use in those S&M comics with the little ball and the straps. Any resistance to the gag and Hlaudi may just come through the chimney like Father Christmas. Presents for everyone. Not.

The capitol, or if you're from Cape Town, the other capitol, is burning. It's on fire. Ramokgopa concedes, back to the branches. How long has the protest action against the political deployment of Mayors been going on? Ramakgopa concede, "We resolve problems through engagements," he has been quoted in his reaction. It wasn't just you on the way to your office, blocked by a group of people so annoyed they will risk safety and comfort and burn tyres and protest. It is your civic duty to protest, but looting and violent crime and damage to property and negative effect on the economy is not your civic duty, it is the very opposite.

Well the General insists on deploying his troops but I want to ask the General, how do we have a municipal election without knowing who the mayor is? At that level of government, it is almost the only element we, the people, have in our influence in the political process. The General has almost taken even that away from us.

But don't feel alone, all over the world people cant get to work for a day or two because some group of protestors is burning a flag or two. In fact civil unrest is becoming so prevalent that even the Pentagon has been preparing for widespread civil unrest. Mdu Nhlebela wrote about the Institute for Security Studies and some papers they released that map out three possibilities we face as a nation. It reminded me about the movie that played at the Durban International Film Festival, called Wonder Boy for President. If only we could find our Wonderboy, that guy or girl who will take us back to the Mandela Road we were once on as a Nation.

But these are small problems we are facing. The question of which megalomaniac we will be allowed to vote into power pales when confronted by the woes of Valery Gerasimov. He must personaly be losing patience when he made the statement that it is Russia that is losing patience with the American's problems with the "opposition under its control" so to speak. Double standards were exposed when Valery Spoke in his capacity as the Russian Chief of the Armed Forces Staff and First Deputy Defense Minister saying "In their opinion missile bombardments of Syrian government troops and communities by militants should be considered by all as 'insignificant violations' of the ceasefire. But any proportionate response to the militants by the Syrian military are at once declared as disproportionate strikes on the opposition,"

Glad we don't have that problem.