NOV 15, 2011 | ANDILE MNGXITAMA |
LAUGH to avoid crying. I am now convinced that we have entered the era of total power madness
So when this year ends, we shall have to concede that we have had three major national inspirations, all linked to tenders and abuse of political power.
Firstly, it was Kenny Kunene and his sushi. Not to be outdone was Malema and his R20-million house with a bunker in Sandton.
Lastly, we had the Mauritius wedding costing more than R15-million!
These developments are trend setting.
We can now imagine that the black tender business class will be organising birthday and wedding parties to beat the Mauritius experience.
They are going to be bigger and better!
What is not known is that such developments have been normal in all post-colonial Africa.
As soon as the colonialists leave, the native political and business classes go berserk in desperate attempts to be the new whites.
They do some real funny stuff, like wearing purple suits - like pimps on beach resorts.
This is the vulgarity of new money. It's all about showing off and littlesubstance.
I think the biggest 2011 innovation is the bunker. The bunker was made famous by Adolf Hitler, who had to dig himself deep underground to avoid being bombed.
Basically, a bunker is there to protect important people from being bombed during war.
Now, why would a private citizen want to have something like that? I have atheory.
When Malema ordered himself a bunker he may have had a bank in mind, a private bank.
If the reports of paying R1.5-million in cash are true, or the alleged report that his friend in Polokwane was found with a R2-million cash stash, then one can see why comrade Malema needed a bunker.
Who is going to bomb the comrade?
I speculate that a vault was being built in the middle of Sandton for the millions of Polokwanetenders.
Comrade Jacob Zuma wanted to show the Polokwane upstart who the real boss is around here.
So our president ordered himself a bigger and better bunker in Nkandla.
Newspapers tell us that our government will spend anything between R69-million to R400-million of our money to build Zuma a palace in Nkandla.
The house will have a private clinic, gym and other beautiful things, but, more importantly, Zuma will have a 10-room bunker.
Since this is the private home of our president, who will soon be out of office, we must wonder who is planning to bomb Zuma, or is it a bank in Nkandla we are talking about here?
I'm speculating and allowing my imagination to run wild since we live in times of madness.
Let's call 2011 The year of the bunker!
Why are our leaders trying so hard to live like rats in holes?
There is a popular understanding that human rats are not good people. A bunker is a house for amagundwana (rats).
I wonder were it's all going to end.
This turn of events bears testimony to my idea that the official ideology of South Africa is stupidity.
- Mngxitama is the author of Is Malema a Mugabe?, a short political biography.
- http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/columnists/2011/11/15/stupidity-has-now-become-south-africa-s-official-ideology
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