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Every so often you haphazardly encounter information that stuns you with its absolute simplicity. And suddenly a light shines and a whole lot of things make total sense.

On the morning of the 7th there were three voices on the radio talking. It was a program that started after I had climbed uncomfortably into a hot soaking bath; so I wasn’t going to move to turn it off… or change the Station. And it was loud so I had to listen.

The talk that unfolded was what the station calls a ‘mediated conversation’. It was hosted by the current incumbent to SAFM ‘s AM Live production’s. The current resident host is one, Stephan Grootes…

In Summary: They were a pair of professors who had written a book evaluating the current Mzanzian ruling party’s historical shifts in economic policy… They themselves it seems were as stunned by their discovery as Mr Grootes was. And I was too: when they shared it.

They were setting out apparently to discover why so many critics of the Party’s performance argued something that I had always understood to be a valid position… That the party had veered from their chosen course: and betrayed the revolution. It seems that we all had an idea associated with the freedom charter. That stuff wasn’t ever ANC policy however. They were deeply pragmatic, apparently.

Thus the venerable profs discovered that the party didn’t have an economic policy statement in the first place from which to veer.

Knowing now, that the former ‘slaves’, who were unilaterally handed the keys to the throne room after spending three hundred years in the Darkroom; were as ignorant as I was, regarding the art of governance: makes me feel much better… And deeply admiring of their sheer Chutzpah that had the whole planet fooled… They were simply a team of brilliant confidence tricksters, who got away with stealing a whole country from under the noses of all the world’s warmest hearted liberal lefties… What’s not to love?

Of course with all Kills [It is Afrika after all] there has to come a time when the Povo get a chance to feed… And the cupboard is increasingly bare and new ideas to bring in new flows of prospective loot are proving awkward: So here’s the latest “plan”.

Take the choicest remaining piece from the carcass… Steal the worker’s pensions… Easy peasy.

So right now the ruling party are about to close the deal. Their proposal, mooted by the fellows who run the main Union grouping in the country: that the public workers pension fund should be well looted for as much as what is in it. The idea is to replace all the loot, stolen from the national power supplier, Eskom. That loot was taken with a ‘cash for debt’ arrangement. The looters created a debt burden that can never be repaid.

The draw against the worker’s pensions never needs to be repaid

I do rekolekt once before, having to vote, as a teacher; for the former evil, thieving: pre-revolutionary government’s proposal. It was during the closing days of the former evil regime… The battle against the Cubans in Angola had bankrupted the country. They would pay us an increase on the misery money we received for spending a few hundred hours a month slaving over a hot timetable. The deal was that the increase had to be paid for from the teacher’s part of the pension fund… And we had to vote for it.

Teachers voted for money today … I was always then, and forever afterwards, a temporary teacher. That meant no pension fund deductions from my miserable pittance of a salary. I had always believed they were unsustainable. That they would inevitably be looted as the vote determined then: and the global trend to Negative interest rates subtly demonstrates today. So I never had a permanent pension penalty type job… I didn’t care about the pensions.

Back then the increases were approved:and mostly taxed backthrough inflation. The pension money ‘loan, was eventually classed as a bad loan; and written off. Thus the money was never, to my rekolektion, repaid.

The current proposal from a ruling class we now know to have ‘apparently’ no economic policy at all; is the simple Mafia methodology of the well-practiced enforcer. Either you let us steal the money to pay off the debt that we had to incur, for us to get away with appropriating all the money we siphoned away… Or … [because we know it needs electricity] … we switch off the economy. As a late struggle hero once famously observed “We didn’t join the Struggle to stay poor.”

Mzansi’s economics have once again been demonstrated to be the economics of expediency… a lively tribute to Adam Smithsonian Self-Interest on supreme steroids.

Well Done to those professors, who shall remain as anonymous as all the people they apparently interviewed for their hilarious tome.

!NiK[‘20]