JUST ANOTHER POLITICAL THOUGHT - ON CYRIL RAMAPHOSA, THE NEXT GREAT HOPE OF SOUTH AFRICA? PART 2.

And then there are the challenges of unemployment, lack of and/or poor housing, and the health of the people. 

All of these basic needs have a tendency to coalesce into acute and chronic social and political discontent, giving rise to mindless occasional and even regular outbreaks of violence. 

All of it arising from and feeding on increasing despair. Having no employment, and with no social security to help the people until they acquire such employment, they are unable to feed, clothed and housed themselves. 

Neither can they have their health care needs met. And then, they look around them, and they can see the disconnect between their desperate circumstances, and those of the 'haves', both the black ones and the white ones. 

And they look for a convenient target. And the find the first one. 'It is the white people', they declare. It is they who had benefited from oppressing us and keeping us down, before we were 'free.' 'Down with the white people of South Africa.' 

But such an analysis is only what could be expected of a desperately hungry person. One who is feeling that his/her very survival is dependent on having food, and having it now! 

Not for such a person is the logic that, the only food available is the seeds which has to be planted today.  So that, even at the cost of some of today's generation, tomorrow's generation will be 'feed', and be in a better position to continue to develop the nation.

But this is not a simple 'right and wrong' situation. It is incumbent on the leaders and government of South Africa, to ensure that they lead and govern the country prudently, and keep the people with them. 

By ensuring that they have the minimum basis essentials, today, while they continue to invest and build for tomorrow.

As I have observed, Cyril Ramaphosa,  like any leader  and government of South Africa, has his work cut out for him. 

The expediency of simply depriving 'the haves' of some, most or all of what they have, and giving it to 'the haves not.' Is rarely, if ever, the best solution. 

More likely it can only be a temporary relief, before a worse situation follows. Especially in the much more economically and financially globally interconnected world in which nations are having to conduct their affairs. 

To be continued!