FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Hope amid the madness
It’s been an outrageously rough year, so head on over to the Soweto Theatre, where you can find a nice drink and some hope for a better 2017
What a year. I enjoy a political scandal and the odd social upheaval now and again, but 2016 was the year of the outrageous. It’s crazy everywhere. There was time when one could rely on Jacob Zuma and the Guptas to cause the big ructions. Not this year. The Brits went and did it with Brexit. The Italians have just signalled that they will follow the Brits into the valley of folly. And the Americans? Yikes! Donald Trump’s utterances demonstrate conclusively that the village of Nkandla in KwaZulu Natal is not the only producer of political miscreants in the world. Then there is Vladimir Putin. The less said the better. Between Putin and Trump we are sitting on huge global shifts. It’s not all doom and gloom. Zuma is on his last legs. No-one will miss him, except the Gupta family. Maybe. The judiciary is strong. Civil society is robust. Journalists are not in jail. Even business leaders are finding their voice. Great stuff, I say.Last year I was invited to a Standard Bank function at t...
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