Dressed in a jeans gnawed, a T-shirt shoes made of animal skins, that the skin had to spend with the African custom as kicking streets to nowhere. Go up the stairs doubtful the hotel terrace. Goes to the window overlooking the bar, in which I finished a coffee while reading a book titled "After Mandela. “Perdone, I will not intrude. Does it work for me?”, said a trembling throat. “No, we have no jobs ", Quick answers the landlady. It does so angry, asked to leave. Type, with disgruntled gesture, down the stairs and see him lose his head down towards the sea, with the body facing the skins that protect your feet.
I do not know why but I felt sorry scene. Perhaps because his expression betrayed some weakness and hopelessness. Perhaps because women, a Russian who with her husband has assembled a nice little hotel near my house, not had a moment to lose in trying, at least, ie not that seem a slam in the mouth. Then, when he saw that I had heard it all felt a little embarrassed and said. "I have no job", and with a condescending tone.
South Africans have won freedom, which is already much, But much of what has come later is a tease of its rulers
The accident led to contemplate the scene while reading the book by Alec Russell (After Mandela) which dissects the South African reality since the advent of democracy. The writer has been a correspondent for the Daily Telegraph here for many years. I could tell dozens of bleeding and embarrassing examples of what explains. South Africans have won freedom, which is already much, removing the oppressive apartheid regime of his shoulders, but much of what has followed is simply a joke of their rulers. The ANC is a party (in fact the union of different parties with different ideologies) riddled with contradictions and corruption, millionaires who cling to power with the excuse that they were the ones who fought for freedom. Give some data. And 2007, the 40% ANC members of parliament were directors or members of boards of large companies with which the State had regular dealings. "The most infamous example is that of Smuts Ngonyama, Party spokesman, bought with the director general of telecommunications, Andile Ngcaba, the 15% Telekom company valued at 7 billions of rands ", Russell has. The cynicism reached its zenith when the very Ngonyama said "I did not fight to stay poor". It's one of those who continues to take, in cash and in the first person to have fought for the freedom of their own.
As, million South Africans are living miserably. The governors are limited to go to the township and now some have assumed that light, some water and even some houses are of brick that the Government gives them. Improved, certainly, incomparable with gold faucets accessed at home. A friend who worked in the Government told me that his salary was the equivalent of 3.000 euros and their boss bought a Volvo luxury upon arrival to the office and came back from Singapore for a weekend lunch with his family and on Monday to fly to Hong Kong. The problem was not doing, corrrupción that exists in all countries, is that here there is no hiding it.
The Gold Rush has been on something concrete for the lucky ones. As I said, I can fill dozens of pages with examples. At the wedding of a daughter of President Zuma, on Saturday, the wedding party was made up 12 Lamborghinis and the banquet was closed a private game reserve. The problem is that all this mess will end up taking its toll. There is no neighborhood in which to sustain the grievance, although this argument is action-call of all learners Matarile and messiahs seen as the people stirred explain that they have no water because the colonists drank three decades ago and has not rained since then. Democracy in Africa, in some countries, takes over 30 and 40 years. Almost all have a common denominator: corrupt governments, tribal infighting and bosses who perpetuate in power a machete from his opponents. No more freedom to complain, if freedom is understood that governments are black people. Now we have to ask these leaders to stop having autologous blood.
