What's the issue?

Aw geeez! How embarrassing. I was wondering when Baleke's true colours would come to the fore. The crazy utterances she made are the stuff of brand new memes today. Forcing our embarrassment into the open even more, like salt on a wound.

Speaking of salt on a wound, did you hear that 'The Madam' is back. Helen Zille was elected as the DA's federal Council Chairperson. Well Jhb's mayor Herman Mashaba was like a cat with a fur-ball, he couldn't get rid of the DA fast enough. Some say it's an escape for him, Jolidee Matango, the ANC's Johannesburg spokesperson reportedly called Herman a sore loser, saying he is running away from the financial mess he created in Johannesburg. That's rich after all the alleged sabotage politics Herman has had to deal with, what with him being DA and all. It is so sad that party politics has a higher priority than national politics. There political parties are so busy fighting each other they hardly have time to fight for the people. And it's the whole world over.

So that's politics, one of the taboo subjects they say. But if we don't talk about politics then the politicians will get away with murder. The one subject that isn't taboo is money, but when you hear of the state of affairs you might wish that it was taboo to talk about it.

McKinsey and Co recently released their findings from a new survey and it is not pretty. They say that half of the banks in the world are not economically viable and would not survive an economic downturn. Banks are scary things, I can't believe they're not making profits, you just have to look at my bank charges and I'm sure you could run a small country on half of what I pay.

Speaking of downturns, Equador finds itself in a sorry state after the government accepted a loan from the International Monetary Fund, of which one of the conditions of the loan was to cut the Government fuel subsidy that has been in place for the last forty years. You watch wherever the IMF goes, the poorest of the poor get poorer and any government social spending is cut to shreds. Or maybe I read that wrong, maybe there is more to it than meets the camera lense. One thing is sure and that is that the protests are about more than just the IMF and the fuel subsidy, the indigenous population are getting a raw deal and it is not going down well.

Things are going down really well at SAA, all when they should be going up, but some of their planes will not be going up until they pass some safety tests. Poor SAA, they not getting a good deal. Their ex big head chief boss Dudu Myeni once again didn't pitch up at court for her hearing, gaining yet another postponement, maybe this time she will have enough time to collect the taxi fare to get to the court, or maybe just borrow a few Rand from the guy that gave you the job at the airline company. FFS.