What is the issue

Wow, what a week. The SARS boss of IT, Mmamathe, really exposed herself to the ire and criticism of the South African public, and unfortunately a large part of the international community. Her apology does not sound like it was written by her, and her quandary about the Drakensberg Boys Choir will probably never be solved.

We will learn to live without that little piece of understanding I am sure of that, but what kind of life it will be I am not going to commit to guessing.

Everywhere you look the effects of corruption are starting to show, the jobs for cronies are starting to have nasty repercussions. The old saying "It will all come out in the wash," is starting to come to mind. Our home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba and our Minister in the Presidency Bathabile Dlamini came under fire from the DA as they sought to have them removed from office through a high court motion.

It may be a 'too little too late' case scenario but we still have to try. The ramifications of the VBS bank issue continue to unravel and the political heat just keeps rising. The news that one of the whistle blowers in the Vrede dairy scam has been murdered is just another wheel coming off the wagon of greed and plunder of our country's wealth.

It is a positive sign that our President hopes that new head of the National Prosecuting Authority is not a "captured" individual. Well I know a lot of fellow South Africans who also hope so and a whole lot more who are oblivious of the position entirely.

Speaking of prosecutions, the Turkish government wants to prosecute whomever it was that killed Khashogi.

Khashoggi is not the only one who has lost his life or has been sacrificed to preserve the money machine that is the weapons deal between the USA and Saudi Arabia. Listen to that number. One hundred and ten billion dollars. But then the numbers coming from Trump keep changing, at one stage it was 40 000 jobs in the arms deal, but as the stakes got higher so did the number of jobs, suddenly it was a million jobs, in an industry that only employs around 350 000 people.

At first Trump would tell us that Saudi Arabia was the biggest supporter of terrorism, but now that they are buying his arms, it switched to Iran.

But this is where I really get bamboozled. They just found microplastics in almost every human being, we're protesting till our eyes bleed about plastic waste yet nobody is pointing a finger at the oil industry that produces the chemicals that make the plastics, or the packaging industry that sells the plastics, and Saudi Arabia being one of the largest oil producing countries in the world is being afforded so much protection I don't think we will ever win the war on plastic.

In what must be a co-ordinated effort, Israel has now declared that it is fed up and sees no other option but war to tame the Hamas and Al Qaeda, while Trump is set on pulling out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, in what looks like another attempt at generating more weapons deals. So in summary we're killing ourselves over the stuff that is killing us.