The State of our Nation

The State of Our Nation Recently our pathetic excuse for a President, Jacob Zuma, gave his State of the Nation Address (SONA) which I am not going to discuss because this is not a "political" blog, nor do I profess to be an expert on political matters. I do know that many people who watched it did so purely for the entertainment factor to see how many numbers he would say incorrectly and what words he would misuse or mispronounce. The fact is, we don't need to listen to that clown's lies as we all know that, thanks to him and his cronies, the state of our nation is terrible. Our education system is a joke, our Rand is almost at junk status and the rest of our basic services are heading down the toilet. In fact, things are so bad, that those (few) people (okay maybe one or two) who just may have been waiting at the airport for Samuel L. Jackson to arrive now that Trump is in power, would have given up waiting by now and gone home because not even Mr Jackson is stupid enough to carry out his "threat" to move to South Africa. So how are things really in our once great nation? Well so far 2017 has been rather hectic and the death of one of our country's icon's - Joost van der Westhuizen - after 5 years of suffering with a particularly aggressive form of Motor Neuron Disease, drew a response of sadness and loss from people of all races and groups across the country. It was suggested that we wear our rugby jersey's on the day of his funeral and I was amazed to see people from so many different walks of life and different races wearing their green and gold in honour of this one man. A sad event, that temporarily united us. Another extremely tragic event has been the loss of over 94 lives of mentally ill patients who were taken out of a certain hospital, and transferred to various NGO's that were not properly equipped to deal with these patients. As one representative for the patients families said "Unfortunately, with our government, people have to die, have to protest, before anything gets done." At the start of the State of the Nation Address one of the members of an opposition party asked the speaker of the House if she could call for a moment of silence to remember these 94 deceased. She emphatically denied the request. This should never have even had to have been requested! It should have been one of the first items on the Speaker's agenda! Just another display by the ANC government of their complete lack of concern for the people of South Africa. So how are we, the general public, surviving? There is greater unemployment than ever before; our murder rate has become one of the highest in the world; our general crime is almost always accompanied by violence and yet I am seeing a definite bonding of the people that wasn't there before. Through his greed and corruption impoverishing the entire country, Jacob Zuma has given us, black, white, coloured, indian, a common enemy and when you have a common enemy then you become united. This gives me hope that, through all of this, God will use our situation to strengthen our country and eventually to root out the evil that has it's grip around the throat of the nation. Churches are flourishing and hope is not lost, in fact, hope is growing as we see the Zuma /Gupta alliance crumbling and the gravy train is starting to wobble on the rails. The State of Our Nation is not what people like Nelson Mandela fought for and then worked so hard to ensure was a peaceful transition from a country ruled by suppression to a country with a great democracy. No, our nation is now even more suppressed than ever before; racism is just as rampant where people who are Indian, Coloured or White are passed over in favour of Blacks even if the others are more qualified. People are still being chosen for their race and not their skills so apartheid has not been eliminated, it has just swopped sides. More people have died under the rule of Jacob Zuma than under the entire apartheid regime. So what can we do? More and more of the marginalised Whites, Indians and Coloureds are starting up their own small businesses in order to put food on their tables. People are angry, hurt, and totally fed up with the treatment we have had at the hand of Jacob Zuma and his theiving cronies but we put one foot in front of the other one and we keep moving forward. N'KOSI SIKELE AFRIKA! GOD BLESS (SOUTH) AFRICA!