South Africa is the country that best signifies that our mumu as black people will never do. It is here that African leadership has demonstrated the stupidity of African leaders.
This is not to say that the rest of the continent has not collectively demonstrated leadership stupidity before. Or how do you label what happened when African leaders decided on the Lagos Plan of Action as their way forward to develop the continent.
Then the IMF came to them with a plan totally opposite their Lagos Plan of Action and they abandoned their Lagos Plan of Action and adopted the IMF plan instead.
South Africa is also our theatre of racism and xenophobia. Whites feel superior to blacks. Indians feel superior to blacks.
Some blacks feel superior to other blacks and everybody feels superior to blacks.
That is why Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa handed the government of South Africa to a bunch of Indian brothers. They then systematically began to take over the economic nerve centres of the country. One example will do for now.
Corruption in Nigeria is individual. It is opportunistic. It is usually perpetrated by single persons. Invariably, it would be one off.
In South Africa corruption is done on an industrial base – organised, systematic, long term and it is a gift that keeps giving.
The example here is that of the South African Airways, an airline company much beloved. SAA’s Johannesburg to Mumbai is one of the most lucrative of the routes the airline flies.
In 2010, Zuma’s Indians set their sights on seizing the route and passing it to their own airline Jet Airways.
It takes about nine years for a route to begin to make profit for an airline. In the first four years, the route loses money.
In the next five years the route begins to break even. In the tenth year it begins to make profit with 82% to 88% occupation per flight.
By the time Zuma’s Indians wanted to steal the Johannesburg – Mumbai Route it was already making profit. This how Zuma’s Indians went about getting it.
SAA is a state controlled company under the direct order of the minister of public enterprises.
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