My aim has never been to offend anyone. I have been driven by the conviction never to be ambiguous whenever I am convinced that a particular political conduct is unethical or wrong.

Now everyone can see that the so-called leader of the DA is not the real leader. Zille has taken charge of every small and big controversy involving the DA. The leader has become conspicuous by his uselessness.

That Ramaphosa is an unmitigated disaster has been confirmed by the chaos currently unfolding in his own cabinet. The man is not respected by his own ministers.

Let us be clear: Sisulu knows what she is doing. The Sisulu name being part of the ANC’s revered aristocracy, it is not difficult to understand why a daughter would like to make a departed father proud by becoming president.

Faith in the future must not be dismissed as a delusion. It is the essential substance that holds human societies together, the idea that tomorrow will be better. An individual who has no hope in the future tends to self-destruct.

Many of us have yet to recover from the pain of losing relatives and friends who succumbed to the virus. Children are still trying to learn to live without parents who left them behind so suddenly.

South Africans have been anxious about the chaos of coalition talks that ensued after our recent municipal elections. Indeed, the metros involved are big and consequential.

It is amazing how history can fit itself into the lifetime of a single human being. In the year 2024, SA will witness the end of 76 years of nationalist governments.

That the decay in the ANC has reached a point of no return, and that we are getting closer to the day the party will no longer be the government of SA, is becoming more obvious.

SA is a beautiful and rich country whose historic movement has been animated by grand ideals, particularly in the modern (post-1652) age of the composite nation’s evolution.