Reflection on the state of our nation
Friday, June 05, 2015
Lives are severely disrupted. Businesses are poised perilously on the brink of collapse, with many facing imminent closure. The result is a further swelling of the ranks of the unemployed, plunging yet more of our people, young and old, into abject poverty and the grinding indecencies of privation.
We spoke to, and of, a frustrated nation. The country is mystified and perplexed at the deafening silence of its President during these moments of sore distress. The President of this country lives in his own manufactured world of contrived reality. He fails to realise that the crises precipitated by his corrupt and incompetent leadership and administration are a danger to the peace and stability of the country. He fails to appreciate that the counterfeit peace of stagnation and conformity that he exacts from his own followers will soon turn into crippling strife. He does not seem to care that his style of leadership has paralysed the civil service and reduced it to a compulsive passivity.
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