Zuma, Russia and the Gupta family
The Sunday Times cartoon by Zapiro paints the Gupta family and Zuma as devilish vampires sucking South Africa into a bloodbath! Brilliant!
( Zapiro’s cartoon @SundayTimesZA (2 April 2017) on @SAPresident midnight cabinet reshuffle #StateCapture
For me, evil is actual, not the devil but a structure of destruction, an oxymoron. It lives despite the impossibility: a structure should not exist in destruction. Zuma is self-destructive and destroying the country, an oxymoron.
As the cartoon describes Zuma with showerhead, he is small in relation to the senior vampire, the Gupta version. This is a very sad cartoon for me, eliciting my sympathy for Zuma. Before Russia and others inhabited Zuma, already two heads have inhabited his madness, one like Manual and one like Patel. If only politics embraced transcendence. Then our government would enjoy both freedom and equality. There is no mercy for Zuma as other heads now overwhelm him. Innately, all human beings are both free and equal. Politics, as demon, disallows transcendence. The government knows we are all free and equal and must re-write the Constitution. That re-write is the help Zuma needs for his healing. Otherwise evil emerges. We must rescue our president from a terrible structure of destruction, from evil. How do we as structures of construction help Zuma?
First, we ask the Constitution to recognise his sickness, like a legion of demons, Russia, sexual gods, nationalism and the ANC gods. Of course, Zuma will not see the problem but if we, healthy society, sit alongside him, all the gods will desert him as he realises a healthy society does not bow to anything. Healthy society does not have any gods. Structures of construction practice transcendence, common to marriage.
Then we sit alongside Zuma with the joy our lives find in living a healthy life, or structures of construction. The enthusiasm of our joy will confront the demons in Zuma and he will join us in healthy society.
Are you healthy? The checklist below will sicken you even at the first item, “No one is equal to anyone,” you will respond.
· All human beings and nature are free and equal. We will repair the Constitution to reflect us when we make it real in us.
· The nation is a con trick; the village has no gods.
· The worker-owned co-operative reflects our freedom and equality at work.
· We hold to an inclusive, non-violent, non-hierarchical and restorative justice. Zuma is recoverable.
· We seek God beyond religion for the truth.
· We transcend the environment, equity and economics for sustainability.
10 April 2017
