POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
Everyday screams silenced by chug of failed system
Our politicians have stopped talking about the everyday human suffering that blights our land
Last week, a comrade on the Cape Flats sent me a text: a 10-year-old girl had been abducted and raped. Last week, President Jacob Zuma went Umshini wami, umshini wami / Awuleth’umshini wami. Someone complied and, in the dead of the night, Cabinet members fell in a hail of Gupta lead. So much happened last week. In the hours before former finance minister Pravin Gordhan was recalled from London, someone bet heavily against the rand on the JSE and walked away with a profit of about R73m: the inside tip of the century. Shell was granted its fondest desire — to turn the Karoo into a fracked wasteland. The ANC’s Thebe Investment Corporation must have held a party since it owns 28% of Shell SA. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa didn’t join the ovation at Ahmed Kathrada’s funeral because, as a friend said on Facebook, it’s hard to stand when you don’t have a spine. But all I could think about was that 10-year-old girl. Why didn’t Premier Helen Zille tweet about her abduction and violation? ...
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