…but I am rebelling against what determines the value of a commodity is the law of supply and demand. I am against this definition. The value of a commodity is the labour time taken in production of that commodity. That’s what determines the value of a commodity.
– His Excellency Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
Someone blinked at SAA. She must have blinked in a particularly alluring way.
Minister Nene is now just Hon Nene, MP.
That you probably know by now. Last week I suggested that something was going to happen at SAA over the holiday period. Soon after, Nene wrote to the board of SAA and told them that they would be in big trouble if they tried to implement a hair brained scheme involving putting a middle man between SAA and Airbus.
The repercussions of that letter (and it is unlikely that Nene did not know this when he signed the letter) were dire for him. He no longer has his blue light brigade, and the Chairman of the Jacob Zuma Trust has put her red light out for a while.
The silence is deafening. The immediate noise from ANC cadres was mixed. Clayson Monyela, the head of DIRCO tweeted “*Prays in tongues*” and “I need to log off and go to bed. Tweeting right now is probaly not a good idea. #JesusTakeTheWheel”. By the morning those tweets, and others were deleted from his time line. When I pointed this out on Twitter, he responded by blocking me from his time line for the foreseeable future. Probably forever.
The sycophant Mzwanele Manye, he who rabbits on about his leader’s brilliant white teeth, tweeted after the speech Zuma gave immediately after announcing Nene’s demise “wow wow wow, what an inspiring unscripted speech by His Excellency Prez Zuma addressing a business meeting in Jhb.”
There are many theories, conspiratorial and otherwise.
My take is that if the ANC does not “redeploy” Zuma before 2016, we will have him as president of our country for the next ten years.
The ANC will not redeploy Zuma because its members are gutless, and its voters are reliant on its patronage to just feed themselves.
If you want to make a difference, do whatever you can to make the population less reliant on handouts. Do something to uplift the poor.