Bwahahahaha…..wakakakaka…ugh splutter hardee har har hahahaha ….oh wait this isn’t a joke? This is for real. Jan van Riebeeck, really… really really this isn’t a wackhead prank or a Schuster gag?
Well blow me over with a feather duster! Now as funny as this sounds it actually has a very, very serious tone to it. Yes, on the one hand we can say, Mr President, wake up it’s 2015.
Oom Jan was here in 1652 and that’s a very long time ago. Or I could say Honourable President Zuma; it was from that fateful day in 1652, that you, today have the ability to build a luxury house like Nkandla. It was from those evil settlers that science, mathematics, economics, architecture, agriculture, engineering, medicine and much much more, that you take for granted, came. Or I could remind number one that unfortunately for him Jan van Riebeeck didn’t die here. Far from it. He is buried in Batavia, at the Groote Kerk in Jakarta Indonesia so his spirit is not here my man, we not be having it!!
No, above all of what worries me, is that once again the president blames all the problems of the country onto the whites. Once again we are being told that we are the scourge of Africa and that they will not tolerate us; So much for never, never and never again, hey Mr Zuma? Yes, I can agree that apartheid was an awful system that left an indelible mark on this country. No one is seeking to deny that, but to go back in history to the very first settlers, is taking it a bit far now.
Let’s instead deal with reality, that’s today, 2015, but of course, we can’t because of that damn apartheid that stops Eskom from operating properly and I believe SAA must have a case of the apartheids too, because it’s pretty broke as well and let’s not forget the post office, that’s definitely got apartheid because it is very, very ill at the moment. If only we had a cure for the apartheid. Something like democracy. Yes we need democracy, oh wait – we be having it.
Learn from yesterday, plan for tomorrow but live in today, because nothing can be done unless it’s done in the now, that’s the right now!
