What is the issue

Immigration is really becoming a hot potato, with viewpoints see sawing to and fro and a strong backlash being felt in some places and quite the opposite in others.

Take Pauline Hanson's perspective for example. Pauline is the leader of an Australian right-wing political party and she want to commend the Sentinel Island tribe that killed John Allen Chau, shooting a fist full of arrows through his body after he repeatedly tried to gain entry to their Island, ignoring repeated warnings that this was not wanted and that it would not go down well. It didn't.

Pauline says they were protecting "their way of life through the enforcement of their strict zero-gross-immigration policy," John was going to convert them to his religion, Pauline and her party, One Nation, believes they should be left well alone.

Engela Merkle is shrinking back from her immigration policies and landslide stories about consulates in the Middle East selling forged visas to migrants and traffickers are not helping the problem, the new Police cadets in Berlin are struggling with the German language. Even hypocritical Hillary got involved with her two-sided approach.

Here at home is good old SA, we're welcoming so many migrants, granting them work permits and offering them aid, all the while more than half our countries sewerage systems are failing, our power supplier is heading for bankruptcy, our airline needs another tens-of-billions bailout to carry on flying, our municipal structures are crumbling and wholesale looting of banks goes almost unpunished. This is not investment potential we are displaying, far short of that.

I would love to immigrate; I would choose a nice place like the Bahamas, or Trinidad, somewhere laid back, where they play jazz on a Sunday afternoon. One of those countries that give you free everything, food, housing, a job, I want to go to one of those, but there must be an idyllic beach in the deal or I'm not going.

Meanwhile in the Ukraine Poroshenko is playing political chess as a staged naval standoff provided the excuse for him to declare a period of martial law, just before the start of the presidential campaign in the Ukraine and Trump and Putin's meeting at the G20 summit. I would love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.

Another meeting I would not like any part of is the Zondo commission. It must be so heart breaking to sit and listen to how we as a nation let state capture get so radically out of hand. Still I think we are under shock as a nation, maybe paralysed with disbelief at how quickly the rot set in and was suddenly acceptable. What I marvel at is the slow reproach, only now that Pravin has cleared his name of all the defiling accusations from the EFF and others, can he stand up and suggest that the looter's assets be seized in an effort to try and claw back some of the billions that should be being spent on sanitation, education, hospitals, wow look at me go, I could run for office, I could be number 1.