What is the issue

As the year of our Lord 2018 draws to a laborious close, I reflect on the tumultuous events that rocked our world this year.

Steinhoff, VBS Bank, Jacob Zuma, the Gupta Scandal, State Capture and the denial of State Capture. It wasn't me!

Julius Malema has been a constant source of entertainment and now that his political party, the EFF has been alleged to be a terrorist organisation, maybe someone will do something about him. LOL!

Our country has been brought to its knees by Jacob Zuma era, we have lost so much that we built up over the years, but the most valuable thing we lost was the advances and developments that me made in race relations. How JZ's rule and its effects decimated the advances of race relations in SA, is beyond criminal.

We were once a great nation, with so much promise and potential, but I fear we have given that away, sold it for a fraction of its worth. I'm not a doomsayer, we are resilient, but I just don't think we're that resilient. Our chances are slipping through our fingers one at a time and still the "Looting Continua".

On the world stage we all breathed a sigh of relief when Donald Dump met with Little Rocket man and avoided further escalation of nuclear aggression, and then shook our heads in disbelief when Donald pulled out of the nuclear agreement with Iran.

Now we stare, eyes popping form their sockets as the US makes moves that hint at a huge military development in Europe. War is an ever-increasing threat with military spending at an all time high.

Trade came under attack with Donald dismantling the existing unbalanced trade agreements between the two super powers of America and China. TTIP was switched off and Brexit got so heated even Boris Johnson's ego looked like it would melt.

The world over reliance on the US dollar is being whittled away with BRICS playing its part, but trade between Russia, India and China is growing so fast, just between Russia and India trade grew 20 per cent in the first half of the year to more than six billion dollars. Even Russia and the UK are talking about switching to their national currencies to settle up with each other.

Artificial intelligence gained so much ground that Google actually switched off the computer after it started talking to other computers in a language that the programmers did not understand.

One thing I learned this year is that we cannot trust the politicians or the political system. Both are so inherently flawed that maybe AI is the way to rid ourselves of this pestilence and find a system that is free of greed and selfishness, something that brings fairness into our governance, but then I must be dreaming, that will never happen.

As a new Cold War between the US and Russia seems to gain momentum and warnings of a stock market crash that would make 2008 look like a picnic in the park, 2019 looms larger than life, and I wish you all peace and prosperity, love and laughter, and remember none of us are getting out of here alive, so have fun while you still can.