ON THE WATER
If we don’t grow up we are doomed to repeat our failures
And so the tedious process of reconstruction begins, again: breaking down the broken bits, clearing the rubble, securing the foundations, salvaging what we can, digging deep into the nation’s dwindling resources to start anew in a post-Zuma and post-ANC SA. As the Mail & Guardian so aptly lampoons Jacob Zuma, he is a dead president walking, and he is taking the ANC with him. Good riddance, you might say, but if you thought that would be the end of it, you would be wrong. First we must have recriminations, blame shifting and hissy fits all round. We know the miscreants, if not the full extent of their crimes, which means there will be commissions of inquiry and prosecutions and vultures to feed on the carcasses. Then there will be the backslapping and an off-key fanfare for unity. We’ll create heroes to worship and #cliché this and #platitude that and pretend it is party time all over again. Consider, though, that we have sanctified former public protector Thuli Madonsela, not for he...
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