What is the issue

As I write this I am smiling from ear to ear and the tears of remorse and pity are rolling down my cheeks. How is that possible, you might wonder I am laughing at the hilarious antics of number one and crying at the seriousness of the loss we face as a nation with every moment that he is allowed to carry on dragging our entire country and its economy into the gutter. Pravin's lawyer Jeremy Gauntlett reportedly likened the Guptas to Alice in Wonderland.

Where are our leaders, and please don't tell me that they don't know what's going on. That is not possible. So what happened to the Rainbow Nations Miracle Has it been completely annihilated Is it lost and gone forever How is it that we can produce civil disobedience of a world-class nature over issues like water and sanitation, but when our president is exposed for what is tantamount to treason, we seem to look the other way. Is it because we might share in the profits I wonder.

Anyway it seems that the rumours of our president being completely commandeered by the Guptas are rife, with financial journalists all speculating and offering their version of what they think number one is up to. I want to know what all the other politicians are doing about this mess. Is he completely untouchable

We, the South African Nation, lost a great man with the passing of Ahmed Kathrada. He was a driving force in our evolution to a free country with its own democracy. He was an honest man and a dignified leader. Rumour has it that he doesn't want Jacob at his funeral, and it is no rumour that he urged Jacob to resign, to do the right thing, listen to the people and step aside.

Still, even after all this, the ludicrous performance of our ministers and members of our parliament, our ministers that didn't ask to be ministers and the amazing incompetence that leaves us gob smacked at some of the utterances made by people in positions that should know better, still we have it better than other places in the world, for how long is another question, but in France the pot is boiling over again. Cars are being set alight in the streets of Paris because of the death of a Chinese man at the hands of the Police. Police vans are being burnt in Hamburg too.

But it is worst in Mosul, Iraq, where the coalition bombs rain down on homes and hospitals indiscriminately and Yemen, yes Yemen, the world has turned its gaze away from the ten thousand people who have lost their lives in this three year old conflict.

So while we are consoling ourselves with the fact that Pravin is still our Finance Minister, for now, and the national treasury is still out of the reach of the long fingers that seek to grab everything that us South Africans have, we can thank our lucky stars that Mr Gordhan is the honest strong willed man that he is. Because in my opinion he is all that we have standing before us and the thieves that want to steal our country's money.