IS TIME RUNNING OUT?

As you read Saving Siyeza, it’ll be in a world beset by Covid-19’s ill-effects. The pandemic now seems all-enveloping, descending into malevolent and potentially criminal management. Because we behave as we do, we rush to pick faults and villains: as fast as we expose a celebrity within our infinite Social Media target range, we shred them as worthless, vile, yesterday’s sensation.
But in South Africa, there are deeper problems. The ANC somehow weathered a torrid century, the last quarter in full power. It’s done so without knowing what to do with itself, let alone the country’s challenges. The profound manipulation wrought by two sets of Indian bothers – the Shaiks in the 90s and the Guptas in the 2010s have left nobody convinced that the ANC leadership intend to correct corruption and reset the nation’s moral compass.
So any CV-19 reaction would be set against such political vulnerability, where leaders are suspended rather than imprisoned. They have an immunity against conviction as well as infection. And for those outside this protective shield, there is nowhere to hide. This is where Lesebo Bafokeng somehow flourished, where Kobus Labuschagne held firm and where Maddox Illingworth kept his cool as he overcame a succession of obstacles judged above his pay grade by Cape Town’s criminals.
Would these Saving Siyeza characters win through in today’s CV-19 real horrors? It’s an interesting hypothesis we might return to shortly.

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