The ANC...a theatre of anarchy and a brutal interplay of factions

The phrase "banana republic" often comes to mind when one observes the conspicuous expenditure our ruling elite indulge in at our expense. What makes this worse is that, amid all the lashing out of our money on luxuries, we are surrounded by a sea of poverty with the time bomb of youth unemployment growing ever more threatening. While millions use rivers as toilets, live in squalors, squat in condemned and mouldering buildings, beg on the streets and resort to crime; we have a fleet of shining new jet aircraft to ferry our leaders and their flunkies in luxury around the globe. Recently Defence Ministry spokesperson Ndihuwo Mabaya confirmed to the Star newspaper that 808 million will be spent on the rental of two additional jets for Presidential travel. As people sleep in the veld, women deliver stillborn children in clinic queues, unemployment soars; education is in ruins and street children roam roam neglected. One wonders: does this government have no shame? Where are you Steve Biko and your eloquence about black consciousness? Why did you have to die and leave us at the strife of Malema and Zuma? Why Why Why!!!