Is South Africa getting it right?

I am a proud South African and a very loud political commentator- well, or so I fancy myself.

I have commented on any topic of political resemblance when it appeared possible to do so.
But I have never commented on Eskom- South Africa’s electricity provider- or otherwise its failures. And yet it has been many a month if not one year since its saga started. But then again, I could not blame myself for not saying anything on what I thought was just one blemished combination of management and government’s (positive) decision-making inability.

Wham!! It slapped me in the face and my supposed “citizenship” was gone. The desire to protect one’s country and, sometimes, pretend blindness even if such a country seemed to be getting wrong anything, well most things, it tried. It was all gone.
The excuses I once proudly bestowed on my friends for Eskom’s failure, whenever they tried to convince me that dear “Eishkom”- as some newspapers term Eskom- and the bureaucracy lost it from day one, were all in my face. And, for once in my life, I looked at myself in shame. Shame on myself, shame on my country, shame on Eskom and government… and … and the SABC.
Did I say the SABC? Yes. All this shame, all this “look at yourself” attitude, and all this… well I have run out of words. But it was very bad when I heard that the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) - too- was facing a financial crisis.

Everything in this country seem to be in a crisis of some sort: Eskom, SABC, Education, the motor industry retrenching more than 40 thousand, the mining sector also relieving thousands of their duties, the global economic crisis biting the country’s already itching tail … the list goes on.

Now more than ever- we as South Africans need to ask ourselves whether we, or those we trusted of running this country on our behalf, are really getting anywhere near profitability as far as our country is concerned. Are we going any where South Africa?

Well, only God knows!