What's the issue?

2020 got off to a racing start with bangs going off everywhere. A few too many bangs for Donald Trump's presidency I should imagine, bringing us to the brink of war once again.

Such a shame about their government with the Democrats looking so weak and trivial, but I heard an interesting perspective from a fellow journalist and co-conspiracy theorists who said the reason the Democrats were making such a hullabaloo about the Ukraine issue is because they have a mountain of poo to hide there.

The case against Julian Assange could not be more controversial, him being held in such appalling conditions by a country that purports to uphold human rights, and being held for telling the truth, while the perpetrators of the heinous crimes go unheeded, unpunished. A new report by the New York Times highlights how governments will have a template, if you will, to charge investigative journalists with anti-hacking laws in their efforts to supress the nasty little bits of truth they don't want us to know about. Either way, the press is getting a huge boot in the nuts. Wait, your news feed will be filled with even more drivel than they are already, coming soon to a screen near you.

As the world reels in the disgust of the memory of the Holocaust atrocities, 75 years later, and you don't have to look too far to see that we maybe didn't learn the lesson. Genocide against white farmers in South Africa continues unabated as the government and leadership deny its existence and turn a blind eye. Anybody silly enough to believe the Facebook posts about the Marines stepping in to save the day need to be labelled with a special kind of delusional status. The political wrangling and power grabbing antics of the world leaders in the fray of the commemoration, niggle at the dyke of abhorrence that most people feel about the barbaric massacre. May we never see this happen again, and yet it is lurking in the shadows. Complacency is the enemy.

The unwavering and awe inspiring insatiable appetite for fraud and corruption, that our government and parliamentary members, councillors and office clerks, NGO administrators and almost everyone handling tax Rands, seems to know no bounds. I would have thought the money would have dried up by now. Like that Deputy Minister of Social Development, defrauding the tax man so that she could get the Lobolo for her niece paid up. How much more is there to steal Imagine if it were all spent properly. Wow!

Rumours that the Government owns one million and four hundred thousand hectares of land and are working tirelessly to take away even more land from its citizens, without paying for it, and you can almost see the problem.

Anyway, if you haven't already braced yourself for Brexit, then you can't say you haven't had enough time; it's been going on for sooooo long. It looks like come the end of January, Britain might escape the tyranny that staying in the EU represented, and salvage what is left of its sovereignty.

Will we manage to salvage our sovereignty from the greedy clutches of a government structure that has no order, no recourse, no rule of law It will take another miracle I believe.