People loosing trust

 I have been very remiss in not commenting about South Africa particularly its politics. 

After the election in 1994 a carefully constructed constitution which set down the checks and balances that society needs was put in place.
In this country we muddle along on a set of values called the Magna Carta in which the Kings relationship with his Barons was written down. Over the centuries through civil wars and confrontation, the rules were modified but never properly codified in a Constitution and the result is ad hock with laws which were promulgated hundreds of years ago at a time when society was very different.
South Africa's judicial backbone was the inherent strength in the countries transition to one person one vote.
Of course Politics is also about powerful men who find any impediment to their rule a blockage which has to be removed and so they attempt to amend the laws, except that a Constitution requires a majority to pass the amendment.

Jacob Zuma has used the legal mechanism of "injunction" to delay his appearance in court to answer charges of corruption prior to his election. The delaying tactic continues to this day but it would seem that information which has been denied an opportunity to be judged in court is slowly leaking out into the media. Whether, in the hot house of so many instances of corruption which are the daily diet of South African politics, if these revelations will bring Zuma to book is questionable. 

The cast, many include names I remember,  and many who have risen to prominence, post Apartheid.    Leonard McCarthy (Scorpions boss) George Baloyi(Prosecutor), Billy Downer (Prosecutor), Hofmeyr, Breitenbach, Wim Trengove the list goes on.     

E tolls to come after the election (what's new). 

SA troops fighting in the Congo (not Rhodesia). Big Business riding rough shod over the citizens of Mokopane. Local chiefs siphoning off the compensation paid for the destruction mining exploration brings.

The return of Staggie, the feared and powerful Cape gang boss who it is suggested organised the hit on Chantelle Knight in the Cape Flatlands. She had been instrumental in putting him behind bars.

70% "Happy News" on the SABC and the buying up of independent outlets in the Media, by government proxies such as Sekunjalo. 
The Chinese have also bought a large stake in the Independent Media Group. Why ? 

The society is a pawn in the game, a game played out across the world but in the fragile environment of post apartheid South Africa, with people still trying to adjust to new roles and new relationships, if the structure of government and leadership is compromised then people loose trust in all aspects of the life they lead.