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Bad Dreams And Even Worse Leadership

I woke as if in a nightmare, I had had a bad dream and as the mist cleared from my tiny little mind, my nightmare seemed to be coming true.

It was a sedate event where the speaker stood at a podium and spoke in a stuttering English monotone, he shape shifted from Jacob to Julius but the rhetoric went on and on. It was the land grab issue rearing its ugly head, the look on the speaker's faces was one of placid indifference, but it was when I turned to the parliament like audience that things got worse. No one was listening to them, they were all wearing headphones and playing on their smart phones.

Then I read Mark Heywood's article "You knew. Because we told you." And it seemed to mirror my nightmare. In his tirade he says, "When you deny your complicity with the crimes of the Zuma period I hope to pull out this article. I will remind you that "You knew. You knew ... what Jacob Zuma's misrule was costing our country. Yours was not a game of Risk. You were part of the cast in a sadistic play of pain and indignity. We were in the audience."

You knew about this pain, because we told you.

You knew that the rats had infested the house of Luthuli and were gnawing out its guts.

You knew, because we told you - that Nyaope and other drugs were eating into the despair of unemployed young people, turning boys and girls into thieves from their own families, children into killers in communities where they once were the innocents.

And you ignored us."

The pained impassioned plea for the rest of Government to stand up for the country and put a stop to the rape pillage and plunder of our fledgling, na*ve democracy, before it is totally destroyed beyond repair, was plain to see.

Then I read about the allegations that the Guptas were going to land the contract to pay out the Government Grants and I had to run for the big white bowl in the little room with water. I was sick to my stomach when I realised that it was quite possible that this could a reality.

Ministers making total fools of themselves, the rule of law being flaunted like it was nothing more than a pink parking ticket, peoples lives and livelihood being bandied about like candyfloss that fell on the floor at the fate. Where will this all stop

Some sanity seemed to prevail with the news that the US, RUSSIAN and TURKISH military chiefs met in Turkey to discuss security issues in Syria. Word is that if they get it together it could mean the defeat of ISIS or ISIL or whichever extremist group it is they are going after.

Then as if to make my waking hours as tormenting as my dream state, news of America deploying its THAAD missile system in South Korea, in the face of anger from Russia and China. Where are we going with this