I have lived in South Africa with my wife since 2003 and we have enjoyed our time here immensely. It’s time for me to feel like I have a say in what’s going on right now. I hear the murmurs, ‘Who are you to comment on internal affairs?’ My perspective is just as important as yours. I am a South African citizen. My father was born in George, my mother and I the UK. I believe I bring a unique perspective having been born, raised and educated in England and at the age of 24 began my extensive vocational travels around the world in the oil field. I traveled a lot and saw a lot. I am a Quality Consultant and therefore have a good eye for details, a rigorous requirement of fact and due reference to the implementation of Procedures, Standards, Regulations, Specifications, accurate and concise Reports. I have worked on Project Management teams in the United States and as a Project Quality Manager globally. Deliverables are tied to a schedule and the schedule must be met. Time, money, and legal constraints accompany projects from start to finish, and their mandate is constant, but circumstances differ. I have learned a lot and ‘Don’t suffer fools willingly’.

When we arrived in SA it was 2003, 9 years after the ‘Rainbow Nation’ had conquered the world with the realization of a truly free democracy. At that time, 2003, there was still a euphoric air throughout the country. The government was entrenching itself in its role of governing so that people could enrich their lives. In terms of what it had been, it was a big question.

Whichever side of the division you find yourself on, you must recognize that governing is extremely difficult if you, as a political party, have never had prior practical experience with the day-to-day requirements. So they ruled and what we have today is their doing, whatever they try to say is totally in their opinion and you always have to pay the piper.

It is now 2018 and I can only speak to what I see happening in SA by taking my lead from the national and international news programs, the press, the media, word of mouth, personal involvement, the internet and the constant barrage of information.

South Africa right now is a country in decline. Your government has been derelict in its duty and continues to heap deceit upon deceit, fraud upon fraud, lie upon lie, bribery upon bribery, bullying upon bullying, nepotism upon nepotism, incompetence upon incompetence, declining standards and a free feed for all like Jackals. . frenzy killing the hands that feed you looting the very fabric from under our noses. And such is their arrogance that they expect a nation to swallow their blatant lies, cover-ups, persistent cries that we are innocent is the legacy of that evil apartheid regime and its perpetrators. Before we were at a disadvantage and we have the right!

The right to:

• Bankrupt all government entities
• Eskom for one
• Everyone but SAA bankrupt
• Allow unemployment to reach record levels
• County incompetence on a monumental scale in collusion to retain fools, fools capable of looting the treasures of countries.
• Allowing private individuals to infiltrate commerce to the point that funds allocated to bona fide efforts were siphoned off at an unsustainable rate.
• Exhaustion of medical resources
• Allow municipalities the freedom for everyone to steal resources without restrictions
• Increased slaughter on farms
• Land expropriation without compensation has meant centuries of labor to build the businesses on which South Africa has grown from a third world existence to perhaps, and just perhaps a first world economy. Being ripped from the hands of those who gave so much to make them what they are. And giving to those who don’t want the land or care little for the work encapsulated within and when there are vast tracts of vacant government-owned land available for occupancy by those who yearn for their share of the vanishing rainbow in the cloud-filled sky.
• The outfall has resulted in riots that have resulted in arson, looting, civil disobedience and total disarray in areas across the country. And all of this based on false promises, unfulfilled expectations, and continued greed.
• These and many more examples, but it’s clear that the latest debacle in this unfortunate series of events is purely political in the run-up to the 2019 election.

A lot happens in a mature democracy, but keep in mind that South Africa, apart from its arrogance and duplicity in state capture phenomena, has been caught in the headlights with its hands in the cookie jar and, as is the nature of their combined stupidity, you are weaving webs of lies trapping you in your childish cries of innocence.

South Africa, you are a country in decline. Where are you going? But more to the point where do you return from?