Zuma and the People who Support Him

In a country with a so called freedom of speech, South Africa, is declining into a commentary of noise and nonsense. With high levels of unemployment, crime and a pandemic of AIDS, the situation inside the country is not as rosy as it all seems to be. Tax payers are paying high taxes and paying extra costs to remain secure. The police are largely ineffective against crime, in certain parts of the country. And when you set up a budget with billions of rands spent on the “Renaissance Fund” you know somebody’s getting paid off, with money the police deserve. For a supposedly transparent government a great deal of information is incorrect.

Crime statistics are one of these failures.

Indeed, one has to wonder what the future holds for South Africa. Racism is on the rise. There is hatred by the government for many of its taxpaying population, whom seem to demand decent outcomes for their payments.

Corruption in country is on the rise. Government doesn’t seem that interested in removing bars to foreign investment, such as certain labour laws. South Africa could be the next Zimbabwe.

And if Zuma is guilty or not of rape, don’t you think the multitude present something more worrying in society when they harrass the woman trying to try Zuma of purportedly raping her? And don’t you think its worrying when judges refuse to sit a case, because of fear of being tarnished as honest citizens or as being white racists?

Photograph modified from the Washington Post picture

Perhaps I’m being pessimistic. Welcome to South Africa. Not as simple as it seems.