Oyena Gwebityala

This is the first post I have written that is not about me, I’ll try doing this more. But I want to talk about behaviour that I have found very weird within our society. A few months ago the Wits SRC got some money from senate to distribute to deserving societies. What struck me and almost everyone else was that some unknown society called the MPSA got what was as far as I recall the largest amount in grants from that money. As it would turn out later, one of the SRC people involved in deciding on the grants was the president of this society or something along those lines.

And this leads me to the weird bit, how could this guy have thought that giving that large a sum of money to an unknown society would not raise some eyebrows?

It would seem that this is the kind of oversight that plagues the whole ANC (the Wits SRC is formed by the ANC). I have been reading the FM lately and there have been cases where people fight over and even kill for power. Not because they believe in leading society in the best way possible, but because they want to control tender processes and the top government jobs. Now my question to such people is how. How can you think that owning a company that wins all the tenders that you give out is acceptable or even justifiable? How can you think employing a person with barely a matric to directorship positions is ok?

It was upon pondering these questions that I found the answer. They just don’t care. No one is going to call them on it and their own moral grounding is a little bit higher than a baby’s.

And the worst part is we have been here before, we have seen what happens to countries that ignore merit and reward only loyalty, all the good people go and as one debater once said to another, the country (economy) goes down.

What can be done you might ask. Well for now nothing really. In any other country that purports to be democratic I would say we will outs them at the polls next year. But that won’t happen. The ANC will win next year’s elections, they don’t even need to campaign. And the will win the ones after that and the one’s following those. They will win every election until we have an opposition in this country that does not try to deny what this country is. We are a post oppression country, we have a very divided society and we need some form of redress. He who realises this wins. All we can do now is say, FOR SHAME.

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