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2016 African letter

12 Months since my last letter my how time flies as the years pass.
Believe it or not we still have Zuma as our President how he has survived
remains one of the mysteries of the 21 st Century. He has been insulted from
every corner totally open letter to the press, unions voting him to go but it
appears that he is determined to see his period out and then to retire to
his homestead Nkandhla which has been a major talking point regularly in
Parliament. A very large amount of money has been paid by the Government
and Mr Zuma has been requested on many occasions to fork out his own
money and we are still waiting for his response. The whole area has been a
matter of jokes for years, the size of the swimming pool (a fire protection
pool) and the size of the chicken runs. Who will replace him at the next
election, nobody knows. Every time a name is mentioned their dubious past
comes up, or they didn’t live on Robben Island at the time of Apartheid.

Then again we always have Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters
(EFF) the ‘enfant terrible’ of SA politics dressed always in their red overalls
and red safety helmets even in Parliament. At one stage his cry was ‘deport
all whites’ but now it’s keep the whites and give all their land to the ‘previously
disadvantaged’ Nigel Farrage’s members might have handbags a five metres
but our boys are in to the real thing and on several occasion the police have
been called in with the EFF always involved. We also have BEE (Black
Economic Empowerment) any company large or small, if you want to tender
for any work from the Government or Municipalities there must be at least
one of your directors a formal ‘previously disadvantaged’ person.
Disadvantaged persons can only be natives of South Africa excluding Whites,
Indians & Coloureds. Some companies have been caught out, with their BEE
member being in name only and have lost their multimillion tenders. Any, all
African company is always at the forefront of any tendering and are given
preference. Thus they have made many multi millionaires and even billionaires.

Since my last letter ‘Oscar’ has become almost invisible after the first hue
and cry with his new 6 year sentence and has disappeared from the
newspapers and even an article recently on double amputees being fitted
with blades he wasn’t even mentioned. We have a new Para 0lympic double .
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