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Going to Indonesia

Jacob Zuma’s planning was all in place for him to depart to Indonesia on Friday evening, planning which can safely be assumed had been in place at the time that the so called ‘xenophobia’ or ‘common criminality’ in the country started, and when the King of the Zulu’s. who now claim that he was misquoted and even Zuma’s own son Edmund told all the foreigners in the country to “pack their bags and leave the country!”

Incitement  which is nothing but provocation, inflammable, rousing, goading, spurring, stimulating, motivating, pushing, instigating, breeding, and causing for people to take action, violent in many cases against foreign nationals.

And now suddenly yesterday, all of the news media, published and electronic faithful to the African National Congress and ‘so called reporting on the good story that they have been obliged to and told to do’ reported that Zuma had cancelled his trip to Indonesia yesterday and that Cyril Ramaphosa would be doing the state visit on his behalf.

And then we have Zuma visiting once again certain areas in Kwa-Zulu Natal yesterday, and publicly, yet so ironically states to the foreign nationals, that they must remember South Africa is not ‘telling them to leave the country’ it is them that have requested to ‘leave the country’ and that South Africa whom has no money would even assist them in the cost of them returning to their countries of birth.

All of this just to pass blame on the foreigners and for the government not to stand and be accountable for the situation that has developed.

That they ‘want to leave the country’ is as a consequence of what is happening in the country all of which has been incited by the King of the Zulu’s and Jacob Zuma’s son, and then he has the audacity to say that it is not South African that is telling the ‘foreign nationals to leave’ but it being their choice!

The man is so out of touch with reality as far as the North Pole is removed from the South Pole, and once again, he elects to manipulate the situation and refuses to accept responsibility of the government, the royalty (whom gets R 54 million a year from Government) and even his son, as being the instigators of all of the happenings that is currently going on, and the choice of word that you would like to use to describe what is going on being at your prerogative.

The country is burning and what was so ironical yesterday, was that a car is set alight in Jeppestown in Johannesburg, burns out, and is then stripped to sell the steel and metal that remains as scrap metal and then they still want to call it ‘xenophobia’?

That a ministerial committee has been mandated to investigate the circumstances that has given rise to what is happening, is like throwing water on the ashes that remain after a fire has died down, or even closing the gate of the cattle kraal (even at Nkandla) after all the cattle got out or escaped from the kraal. What would the conclusions be of the ministerial committee?

Money and time wasted or and for what reason what is happening, needs no ministerial committee to investigate it! It is as clear as daylight, yet Zuma is like to advert on TV for Savannah Dark, where the guy with the dark glasses says: “Yes it is quite dark in here” and in this situation Zuma is in the dark!

That his international travel yet once again was more important than the situation in South Africa, is so evident, as it was changed at the very last minute on Friday evening when he was due to depart, while the situation has been going on for more than 10 days, is which he could have cancelled his trip or taken some ameliorated remedial action to rectify and or even call the citizens of this country to order, as if he didn’t expect journalist to question his absence from the country when he would have arrived in Indonesia, while the country that he represents is burning!

Does the man have no priorities in his life? An unequivocal NO, NO and another

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