State of Unrest

My inquiry as a Political Scientist is in Self-Governance.This enquiry has been my work for the last 8 years or so. The pertinent questions here revolve around economic and social resources, the Land Question and common sense.


I has seen the products of the policies in place for the last decade and there is not much good to see.
Destitution is rife. People are losing their hold on security. 20 years into a democracy, people have gona past the jadedness of "freedom" and started to ask what their freedom truly entails.
I has lived in quite a few shack communities. i has been educated in the highest academic institutions this country can offer. The intellectual gains from the experiences I has gone through shows me that a state of civil unrest is too likely.

Consider that Marikana, Lwandle, Nkandlagate and countless strikes have occurred in the last 10 years, and I see the tied of dissatisfaction growing high. ANC defections have multiplied, reactive parties have risen and some fallen. There is a hunger for accountability, transparency and autonomy.
Sure, some are still content to tow the line, pander to the powers that (will soon not) be. But we must be vigilant in the work that is upon us, the intellectuals. We must criticize, both constructively and destructively. We must listen to the words of others besides the SABC and CNN. There is a whole lot happening just down the road that threatens the preservation of peace in our land.

The Police are in a shambles. The constitution takes too long to work. It surely does not have the sway it had in 1996, or 1986 for that matter. Our cities are still living with slum districts from the 60s. Where is the progress when the tax payer has to pay more to get less? Where is the justice when State apparati countermand the justice and respect we are due?
Mandla Magidela has an article on media profit vs public interest. It exists here on the Front. If you have not read through it, do so, soon. Then ask your self: why do I use my television?

I has lived in neighbourhoods that once supplied coal to millions, but are now nearly ghost towns. I has watched half-blind mothers build weaving machines just to supply their children with 1 meal a day. 100 of liters of water a week for a family of 8 is what I has seen, heard and lived.  There is no luxury when there is not even any water. There is no salvation when the streets are so dilapidated or undeveloped that ambulances cannot even drive there.

I is in no rush to burn this city down, but the Anglo-Dutch facades of Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg City Halls can meet a torch for all I care. The bodies in there do not get out enough. They are not using the billions of funds available to the State for any constructive good.

There are shopping malls in every township in Durban, but no universities. There is a plethora of street drugs available in  but not even a resident Optometrist for every clinic.



Look upon the poverty model. It is an invention. The system works to siphon every cent from the working poor and build the restrictive systems of the future, while reinforcing those already in place. Before Marx even dropped ink to paper, Africans were being trained to be slaves of every kind. once chain bondage phased out, as the European knew it would, the wage slavery had already gone through clinical trials.
It was installed and allowed to run. The system needs  minimal guidance now, as the countries them selves now maintain the models that kill their populations. Anarchy was not my first choice. I used to have hope that there are good politicians with hearts of actual flesh and blood. Hahahaha!!!  I soon learned that the good ones get killed, disappear or have curiously short careers. There is a running gag in the international arena. Only the vindictive and evil people get to live long and prosperous lives.

I has taken thousands of taxi rides in my life. I has seen people working for the same company for 20 years and never afford their selves a holiday. I has seen the faces of a crowd, lit by the flames of a burning body before them. Strike violence is a staple of the news, like the weather. I suggest our CEOs live the lives of their work force for a few years. i'd like to see how they survive walking 15kilometers to get to the nearest hospital, only to be given 20 Myprodol pills after waiting 8 hours.

How is a country with no examples of freedom meant to fashion it's own? When we kill the voices of dissent, how do we claim a system is balanced?  I wrote a paper a few years ago about de-linking from the fiscal economic system and building more resource based economies. I was shunned, but will continue this work.

How is one meant to be autonomous when one is not allowed to earn enough to own their own land? Oh, the land which was stolen, by the way. How is there meant to be any talk of an Africa for Africans when Africa is own by external forces? This is but a brief introduction to the interests that plague my mind at this time. I says "plague" because there are better things to thing, healthier interests to pursue. But how can I pursue personal glory when there is a country onn the precipice of collapse? The corruption, red tape and sheer stupidity will kill us. Then the Europeans will take Africa again. Be warned. Honourable J. L. Zuma and his bad policies is not the worst that can happen to South Africa.

To be continued