What do the Workers Want?

The Great JZ has a lot of support from the unions, meaning that lower paid, employed people like the mineworkers want him to be president. The question is why? It is obvious he will not create jobs, more likely remove them. I imagine these people don’t particularly like their jobs anyway. What he will do is shake the economy up, create economic meltdown of the colonialist side of the economy, and redistribute wealth – which means land, I presume, since that’s all that will hang around to be redistributed. In essence, then, they want what Zimbabwe got, what the Namibians want and will be getting shortly I presume, and what the rest of Africa got- they want the land handed over. Of course, they would want anything else of value too, but that normally doesn’t last long enough to be of any value, eg businesses such as mines, since they all need to be operated to retain their value. History shows that after hand over, even the land drops in value, since production is halted. Why then, this insistence on taking everything? Do we Africans have a higher tendency to envy or greed than others? Probably, judging by the level of corruption and the massive rich-poor gaps in Africa. We are proven to make excellent capitalists. All our politicians are fat and drive expensive 4x4s. Also, our strong sense of individualism and pride suggests a strong tendency to arrogance, which explains our tendency to be racists (as well as our tendency to drive 4x4s and care less about the poverty stricken masses). Once everything is destroyed, our politicians are driving 4x4s over us, we’re all starving together, and our vote counts for nothing because of voting fraud, we seem to be happy and resigned to whatever fate befalls us, since there’s nothing we can do about it. But yes, we have to assume that underneath it all, our objective is to go back to living as our ancestors did, a few cattle, women stamping sorgum for beer, a fight against the neighbouring tribe now and then. The thing is, we could probably get just that, and the colonialists could have the cities and their western economies. That’s all of no interest to us in the long run. The agricultural side of the economy is of less importance than ever. I assume greed precludes this outcome. Unfortunately its inevitable, then, until we can all stand up and actually care for and truly respect our fellow countrymen, fellow earthly creatures (yes, they’re no less important than us, although our unbelievable arrogance suggests somewhere we forgot this fact) and (gasp!) even our colonialist invaders – they are also creatures of this earth, and are not of lesser importance than us. If we could ever conceptualise the fact that Eugene Terreblanche must be respected, thought of with empathy, and nurtured, we may finally be getting somewhere. Lets hope, for the sake of our humanity, some miracle changes us, and we can establish some semblance of sanity to our continent.