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The More Things Change…
More concerning is that the Ramaphosa
administration, while sometimes making
a show of dealing with ‘bad apples’ within
the ANC, will only deal with apples in the
opposition ANC camp.
Like vultures fighting over a carcass,
rather than focusing on fixing roads,
maintaining civil infrastructure and
hospitals, and creating an atmosphere
conducive to investment, Ramaphosa
loyalists clash with the party’s Zuma
faction, gangsters and acolytes led by the The Ekurhuleni metro bus that killed two people as a result
likes of ANC renegades Ace Magashule of failing brakes, which was linked to a lack of proper
and Lindiwe Sisulu. maintenance. (Photo: Supplied)
The potential of a sunny, third post-democracy decade, has been replaced by the nervy
and electric fence disposition of a country utterly abandoned by its blue-light brigade
of leaders.
I’d like to think such stories would’ve had Madiba turning in his grave. However, I believe
that – unlike the late Ahmed Kathrada and the Arch Desmond Tutu, liberation stalwarts
who put the country before their once-beloved African National Congress – our iconic
former president was maybe more attached to his organisation.
Also abandoned has been South Africa’s population (the largest on earth) of rhinoceros. A
large number of Kruger National Park staff were found to be involved in poaching activities,
and when those numbers were seriously depleted, the rhinos in the needlessly renamed
Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park found their own security as comprised as the reputation of Ezemvelo
KZN Wildlife, the post 1994 name for the once excellent Natal Parks Board.
Provincial and municipal reserves in KZN (and many cities and parts of the country outside
the western Cape) are also in poor condition, in keeping with the mismanagement rife in
most. Unfortunately, with conservation as attached to apartheid as a tick to a buffalo – and
the ruling party seemingly intent on doing everything it can to keep the apartheid legacy alive
– the political will on the ground just isn’t there.
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