This component of this site turned into a campaign about President Trump - but is it not time we look closer at home as to what is happening in South Africa.
Alan Paton - whom I met - wrote a book "Cry the Beloved Country". His wife fled from SA years ago because she found that the country is going backwards and one wonders whether another version of "Cry the Beloved Country" is not needed.
Over he last decade what I thought would happen did happen. When Zuma was elected as ANC leader I had a serious and heartfelt discussion with the Mayor of the Municipality where I worked about the issue. I told him I was worried about the selection - especially since I knew Zuma personally and did not think he was honest. The Mayor told me not to worry - but he was fired by the Zuma crowd shortly afterwards. He is a really good guy and was a very capable Mayor as well.
What happened over the past decade under Zuma became more evident as time went on - but has now turned into a horror show. There is not a day that goes by when more Billions of Rand theft of Government money is not exposed. Every day listening to the Zondo Commission of Enquiry is just another torment of how Zuma posted crooks in position where they could authorize and participate in massive looting, make me even more despondent about the country.
It is not only thing that causes despondency - it is the almost daily repots of agencies appointed to investigate what happened in the various state-owned enterprises and government departments which caused me to wonder why the looters - inclusive of Zuma himself - should not spend the rest of their lives in jail.
I was delighted when Zuma eventually got kicked out, but was it really for the better? Maybe to a limited extent - after all Ramaphosa was Zuma's Deputy President for years. He became a very wealthy man when he benefited from share allocations by major companies to establish a Black shareholding class by 1997 and married into one of the richest Black families in SA - the Motsepe's.
The question is what did he do when the Zuma looting spree was at its top between 2012 and 2016 to stop the rot? Near to zero. Now came the crunch - in the latest question session in Parliament Maimane as leader of the Opposition asked a question about a payment of R500 000 made by one of the major crooked companies made to Ramaphosa's son.
Ramaphosa answered that he asked his son about the payment and his son showed him the contract between the company and his son's company which resulted in the payment for services rendered. Ramaphosa gave what appears to be a credible account of what happened - but the DA was still not satisfied with the answer and asked to see the contract to which Ramaphosa referred.
All went quiet for a few days until Ramaphosa - obviously under pressure - wrote to the Speaker to apologize about him misleading Parliament by answering the question of Maimane the way he did. The R500 000 paid by the crooks was not to his son - but to a Trust Fund established to fund Ramaphosa's campaign to become leader of the ANC.
I was hoping that Ramaphosa would at least usher in a more responsible and more honest Government in SA - but would he? I am developing doubts about him as well. So a second book about "Cry the Beloved Country" is what really is needed because it is really the poor who are suffering most in SA as a result of looting of the Government in the Zuma years and it clear it is still continuing.