Apartheid is long dead

Our president and his merry cadres have failed us dismally.

- Isaac Mashaba

Last week I wrote an open letter to the president of South Africa but I doubt he read it. Anyway, I didn't listen to his Sona address either. As suspected, it was once again filled with empty words and broken promises aimed at pacifying an increasingly restive population and a progressively more disappointed and wary international community.

Even though it was delivered on behalf of the new GNU, it was mostly a repeat of the previous Sonas but with a date change. It was about talking and blaming others for the current and future failures while challenging powerful states and their investments in the country. The president's selected, but shrinking, group of democracy-denying, white-hating, anti-West elite cadres has taken SA down a path of socialist wokeness to ensure they can continue ruling for themselves. Every failure they purposefully engineer is blamed on apartheid and a lack of inclusiveness, diversity and transformation.

Really? Apartheid is long dead, except in the minds of those who refuse to accept accountability for our current and pending failures. Instead, they blame it for everything that is going wrong. We are faced with a lack of accountability by our leaderless politicians.