Elections2019: If things in South Africa continue in the way it is then it will not be long before the country is empty and someone has to put out the lights, writes CrombieSedick MzansiVotes
South Africa is in the grip of the political season with electioneering being the norm of the day as we are bombarded by the media; television, social media, radio and the like partaking in this four-or-five-year bout of political grandstanding and season of promises. Then there are the election rallies and political skirmishes between political parties with the odd bout of fisticuffs or should one rather say chair throwing, thrown in the mix.
Today the propensity shown by politicians is rather to work in clandestine ways to undermine the concept of public good and the offices of political and public administration in haste to amass wealth at an alarming rate, while in office. The current discourse in South Africa is solely focused on the grotesque amounts of the public purse which is going or has gone into the pockets of politicians in cahoots with their serves, the public servants and bureaucrats.
Where are the noble acts, once again, of recusing yourself from claims of involvement in dubious practices and where witnesses to your corruption are numerous at commissions and public hearings? This tendency of continuing to remain in political office and be seemingly above the law creates a dangerous precedent to those followers and lower level officials who take your cue and afford themselves immunity to corrupt practices and of also being untouchable.
The law enforcement agencies, bar the few good men and women, start to become complicit and even act as the couriers for their criminal handlers, It is at this point where the rot has fully and truly set in. A surgeon could not have been so clinical in his methodology in how to completely break down the fibre and character of a law-abiding society as those from the criminal underworld, deftly supported by those with a darker agenda of self-enrichment.
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