“You cannot solve a disaster by the same people who created the disaster. The ANC won’t be able to solve this problem. There is no urgency from the government to deal with this disaster. If there was urgency, they would not have waited this long,”

EFF MP Khanya Ceza took the opportunity to call the declaration ‘palace politics’ while reiterating their call for Ramaphosa to step down. He also called on various sectors of society to join the national shutdown his party would embark on later this month. The Gucci kids seem to be sticking to the mantra that Cyril’s departure, as well as snuffing the last bit of light out of the economy will bring the good times back.

The DA took their usual over-educated and articulate approach with DA MP Ghaleb Cachalia saying ‘while the measures aimed to guarantee uninterrupted power supply and exemption of essential infrastructure from load shedding schedules were welcomed, there was limited information about how the new electricity generation would be connected and how Eskom’s plant performance would be improved.’

It doesn’t quite sound as much fun as the EFF’s ‘let’s just break it’ plans, but then again, the DA usually behaves like a first child who managed to get a degree, and now has to spend Christmas with their less educated siblings. They did however take another whack at the proposed Minister of Electricity.

“As for the new electricity ministry, my colleague Leon Schreiber has calculated it could cost the country more than R37 million a year. Clearly the president has chosen to abuse the crisis to create more cushy jobs for useless cadres.’

Well duh, it’s election time and the ANC needs a bit of funnelling for their campaign.

IFP MP Mzamo Buthelezi stated the obvious once again by implying that the declaration of the state of disaster revealed that the ANC government has failed tremendously and that they did not trust anything will change.

ACDP chief whip Steve Swart used his turn at the podium to congratulate De Ruyter on his bravery, saying that they regret that he did not lay criminal charges, as he should have done.

“The information was however not kept secret. It was shared, and one trusts that it is being investigated.’

Didn’t the IFP just mention that the ANC government can’t be trusted? The only person who seemed to be optimistic about the state of disaster that is South African politics is the ANC. MP Khaya Magaxa accused the opposition of wishing the ANC was out of power.

“No one among them is coming up with better solutions, instead they talk about wishes.”

What most South African wish, is for this shitshow to be over. If that means the cadres need to be booted from parliament, then let’s get some Doc Martins and get stomping because one thing has become abundantly clear in the last few years: None of the suit-wearing, BMW-driving, outrage-spewing parliamentarians have to share a shack with a family of ten. They don’t cue for a meagre SASSA grant every month, and they don’t know how it feels to stand by the side road with a cardboard sign hoping for a handout so you can buy a half-loaf of bread for your hungry kid.

I know that Friday is no time to discuss this sorry subject, but as we head into another weekend with rolling blackouts, we have to remember that everyone is just singing for their lunch and the upcoming elections.

Listening to politicians talking kak all day while pointing fingers at each other makes me wonder if we shouldn’t just hand over the keys to the country to Gift of the Givers? They seem to be less talk and more action.

[source:iol]