Dr. Lucas Ntyintyane - Speaking out for a better South Africa

Dr. Lucas Ntyintyane

                                                                                                Stes de Necker

 Dr. Lukas Ntyintyane - Speaking out for a better South Africa

Dear Editor,

Gary Stewart's life support system was switched off on Monday. The Cape Town-based assistant driver's skull had been fractured by a stone. Another violent strike, another victim. A few years ago, an assistant nurse from Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital was another. She was on her way to work. As is the case with Mr Stewart, no word of apology was offered to her family from the union bosses. They blame the third force for the violence.

At such times, I turn to the soothing sounds of Afro'traction and Asanda Bam to save myself from the cloud of despondency. Listening to them, one is reminded of the forgotten beauty and talent of this tortured land.

This senseless violence is tainting everything. Former world boxing champ, Corrie Sanders is killed for what? What became of us?

As the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda once said: "Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us, leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers, but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces ..."

Violence and the daily dose of errors by political leadership are symbolic of a bigger and deeper malaise. Only those living in cloud cuckoo land will say everything is kosher.

You feel a tinge of sadness as you read of the ostrich approach adopted by the Department of Public Enterprises to the resignation of SA Airways (SAA) CERO, Siza Mzimela.

No crisis indeed.

Our country has become a comedian's paradise. A comedy of errors that is denting our image.
To complete your laugh a minute comedy series, add the following to your list: the bumbling SABC, the miseducation of the Department of Public Works, failure to launch SAA, a blind Department of Justice, the Julius Malema circus, the brand-new republic of Nkandla etc. Take your pick and laugh your lungs out!

I am speechless when it comes to the Auckland Park towers of the SABC. Democracy is exposing the nakedness of our emperors.

Commentators and analysts are pointing to the lack of political leadership. Everything else is a symptom of an absent leadership. It started with Thabo Mbeki.

Please don't blame President Jacob Zuma. It is not his fault.

In an ideal world, Mr Zuma should have been banned from entering the Union Buildings. He is not fit to lead this country. Neither are Kgalema Motlanthe, Thabo Mbeki, Tokyo Sexwale or Mathews Phosa. They are part of the problem and cannot offer any viable leadership solution.

Thanks to the selfishness of the African National Congress (ANC), we have Mr Zuma as a president. Was he the best available talent to lead SA or just a stop-gap tragic figure?

I wish someone could take the present leadership to the nearest jewellery shop. Show them a Patek Philippe watch. Let them read aloud its pay-off line: "You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely look after it for the next generation." That should be South Africa's motto!

Mr Zuma and the ANC, you don't own the country. You manage it on behalf of the electorate. This means a responsible, answerable leadership.

"Why do I bother writing? No one cares. No one listens. Who gives a damn about what I think? Our leaders are busy enjoying a champagne life and preparing for the Mangaung velvet revolution. The winner gets to build their own Nkandla at taxpayers' expense.
So much for democracy. Sad, sad, sad!"

DR LUCAS NTYINTHYANE

Bloemfontein

BUSINESS DAY 

GIVE THIS MAN A BELL'S !!

Stes de Necker

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