A loaded gun of economic failure
In a country held to ransom, SA's hostages were millions of citizens who depend on a pittance
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini and Net1 CEO Serge Belamant had the mother of all winning hands and they knew that we would fold. We gave them what they wanted: the feudal extortion of the masses. We didn’t have a real choice, but to allow their plundering of the underclass. The alternative would have been Armageddon: violence, chaos, blood in the streets. We weren’t going to send 17-million people back to apartheid’s world of stillborn children and barren kitchens; we are not yet that cruel. So, we will pay CPS and its associated leeches a fortune. And we will give these swine more than our taxes. We will hand over our democratic institutions and the social contract: they have already transformed the Constitutional Court into an echo chamber. They have employed the governance strategy of US president Andrew Jackson, that destroyer of the Native American Cherokee. In 1832, following a Supreme Court ruling compelling federal marshals to implement its decision, Jackson s...
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