
Never underestimate the power of structural stupidity
Structural stupidity is a process where stupid people who lack, knowledge and experience is placed into positions of authority, where others can use them to advance an agenda of self-enrichment.
More than a billion Rand was spent on the Zondo Commission, yet nobody important is in prison.
Since the looting and ruin of Kwazulu/Natal, nobody important is in prison. Two years ago, people stole and sold the matric exams, nothing happened. The list of neglect and stupidity must be considered as organized crime. When unqualified persons are hired, disaster is a question of time.
This is one of many reasons why, South Africa cannot progress. We refuse to rise above conditions. It is, as if, we are against progress. As a nation we cannot make short term sacrifice for long term gain.
We lack the foresight and long term vision and desire for success. Example, Vagrants have ruined the milieu of our beautiful city and its surroundings. When the municipality wants to solve the problem, “so called” human rights activists goes insane in their protection of the vagrants. When the drunk vagrants defecate and urinate and threaten the public, the “rights activists” are missing in action.
China has built a city the size of Cape Town every single decade many times over.
In comparison, whilst our parliamentary precinct was still on fire, “so called experts” were already speculating how many years it would take to rebuild. This guessing displayed the lack of faith that orators had in themselves, and our society to rebuild. As a nation we lack self-confidence, yet we have a profusion of individual who have limitless delusional self-conceit amid us.
After World War 2, much of Europe and Japan etc. were destroyed. The survivors did not idly lament, they started rebuilding immediately. Recently, in France, a Cathedral burnt, whilst the investigated continued, the rebuilding started. Sometime ago, a castle of the Queen of Great Britain, burnt, she was on the scene and helped with removing valuables in case the fire spread. The Queen wanted the fire to be curtailed but was concurrently wanting to save what could be saved.
Our political leaders, talk and talk instead of solving problems. Politicians love commissions of inquiry, since commission rarely solve actual problems? Commissions bury the public with detail to such an extent that the public just give up.
Then again, what can be expected, when we have many politicians, who barely survived high school?
How must genuine leadership with knowledge and experience arise when voters, vote the corrupt into authority? Voters must vote with intelligence and not emotions otherwise nothing will really change.
Cllr Yagyah Adams
Cape Muslim Congress