Or why a Minister
of International Relations and Cooperation?
Mini-post № 6 … National Health?
The image of two dapper-clad minister-supporters storming into a meeting
with the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK, Germany, and the USA over the free issue
of lollies being kept to “established diplomatic channels”[i]
won’t go away.
A far-far bigger recognition issue is at stake: Logically …
Problems cannot be solved until
the problem is identified.
In real life we rely on family and
friends to point out our errors.
Hard as the words spoken or action taken
often are it’s the love behind them that stops us sinking in the next pothole.
Not so close folk, pseudo pals and the jealous will happily encourage us
to climb on to the roof, and take the ladder away – just for a joke.
The amazing James (if-we-won’t-play-god-who-will)
Watson[ii]
wasn’t being a racist dick-head when he said Africa
needed special attention[iii].
Few scientists learn the art of B/S.
Watson was speaking to the point with a stab of love-is.
It was a love-token: science has identified
a foundation problem – build on it.
11 years have passed: The understanding of problem fixing has improved dramatically.
Yet in the real world, South
Africa still adopts policies in the financial domain,
in health set-ups and on through to policing and most critical,
education, and to international borrowing and aid requests, that take no recognition
of the clear evidence that some 50% of Africans do need special developmental attention[iv].
Just perhaps SA needed that timely European nation reminder about
tackling corruption?
Yes, there
are “numerous investigations” but how much action actually?
Oh, there
are a few evangelist/pastors heading for the dock but otherwise?
South Africa doesn’t need an army of political ministers and deputies[v].
It needs a vastly upgraded civil service with huge supporting
commitments of personnel from successful overseas nations and all the smart
people[vi]
it can get to run SA as an army is …
An army … a real one … defines goals and paths to those goals and uses
its sergeants and officers to instruct those who need guidance to ensure the
best is done for all.
Does SA need to compete in the space race or to get life’s basics right?
[iii] He said “he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa”
because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence
is the same as ours–whereas all the testing says not really.” https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/01/14/genetics-pioneer-james-watson-stripped-of-final-honorary-titles-over-race-views/?
