ON TEMBA MLISWA & BILLY RAUTENBACH(ROTTENBACK):so indegenise,empower and create employment was a gimmick that has its limitations,regardless of all the talk about controlling our destiny there is a limit to the dream of black success.So its okay for the whiteman to pocket a billion but when the blackman who facilitated cries for his pound for a service well rendered albeit in the mortgaging of national resources the nation is outraged?but outraged at what really?,these deals had the necessary approvals and began by a meeting of the minds between two businessmen so why shouldnt the honky pay? is it simply because Temba comes from a perceived faction we dont belong to or because we hate the fact that he is able to make a profit from his connections which most politicians who have been in government for ages are not?it is down right racist to look at a figure and be outraged and not see it relative to the value of the deals undertaken.Rautenbach smacks of white supremacy that thinks every blackman should be grateful and accept what the master is generous enough to give no questions asked. AND MANHERU HAD THIS TO SAY IN THE HERALD YESTERDAY: Could that be true? There is a deeper question. How do national resources get parcelled back and forth, up and down, sideways, but without those in authority knowing? For goodness sake we are talking about coal in Hwange, which is mined visibly, noisily. We are talking about a huge chunk of our platinum, billion worth, if Temba is to be trusted. We are talking about a huge swarthe of land, all now carpeted by cane whose rough “leaves” rustle so audibly in the restless national wind. It is very visible from the main road to Chiredzi. Politicians have been there. Yet all the three are unseen, undetected, unknown. It is the quarrel over a paltry US$165million consultancy fee charged by a diminutive fitness trainer, which generates enough noise for national arousal and notice. Which strains our focus. Please! Lobengula saw well And the focus falls of this little man called Temba Mliswa, and his faction, real or perceived. Falls on little politicians and ministers scrambling for crumbs off the rich white man’s well bulwarked table. That is what transfixes the national mind. Let me be provocative. Nowhere do white missionaries show us a Lobengula who obsessed about black acolytes of white hunters, white gold-diggers. He worried about the encroaching white man, the depletable national resource. His focus was right, substantive. He knew what threatened the national interest and confronted it, albeit with small sophistication and ever diminishing capacity. But he had read right, seen well. This is what is missing today, and the media, please help this nation focus on the real, the substantive. Government, please wake up to the economic dimensions of the State you run. Please see! Don’t be so blind. And then daft. Where were the arms of State as all this happened? Why does one white man seem stronger than a whole Government, wiser than a whole people, more deserving than our modest rent-seeking aspiration?
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:24:22 +0000
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