When the President unexpectedly announces the “lockdown” the management of the process would appear to have given no consideration to the large percentage of our population that are still migrant labourers.
When Easter Shut Down arrives, the Townships empty, as both migrant workers, and family descendants head for their village homes.
In this example I use the Zulu nation, where the largest percentage of their population, live in extremely rural areas, many of the elders, only speaking the Zulu Language, and would ned to rely on local radio station for communication.
A large percentage of the Hostel communities, only speak Zulu.
The ‘Lockdown, comes very suddenly and unexpected, on March 24, 2020, the announcement comes unexpectedly that a ‘Lockdown’ will commences on the March 26, 2020, everything will be closed for 3 weeks, this announcement is tantamount to an instruction for the migrant workers to go back to the family.
The migrant is feeling healthy, there is no reason for him not to go to the family, to see them through the ‘lockdown’.
The family are no wiser, and they receive the breadwinner, as they do every year.
Maybe 200 000 Zulus move from Gauteng to KwaZulu-Natal?
For those of us who know KwaZulu-Natal. millions of people live in areas that are almost inaccessible.
The departure starts early on the morning of March 25, and probable infection date, for a new groups of cases is from March 25, given my very unscientific assessment of 9 to 11 days, the cases should show from Friday 03, 2020.
I present the graph, with no assessment, but welcome questions.
Impact of Coronavirus on KwaZulu-Natal
My conclusion that this incubator of the virus, was as the result of the movement back home, due directly to the Lockdown, is based on the following parameters.
GAUTENG:
On March 22, Gauteng has 124 cases, all linked to international travel, and 12 locally infected cases.
For comparative proposes, I compare the Gauteng Local infections on March 17, 2020, 1018 cases, I divide the local infections with the base International Travel of 120, and the result is the growth of 7,48 times each base case.
KWAZULU-NATAL:
On March 22, KwaZulu-Natal has 36 cases, all linked to international travel, and 5 locally infected cases.
For comparative proposes, I compare the 2, KwaZulu-Natal Local infections on March 17, 2020, 591 cases, I divide the local infections with the base International Travel of 31, and the result is the growth of 18,66 times each base case.
Danger Signals:
When the Government had control of the cases on March 22, no such movement should have been allowed.
The death statistics in KwaZulu-Natal, is the highest, in the Country, and effectively, all removal of restrictions from today, must consider how we isolate the virus in KwaZul-Natal, and ensure that any returning citizen, is considered to be returning from a high-risk area.
East London:
We need to give consideration to the origins of the virus in the East London area, how much could have arrived from other provinces, how did it get into the two prisons, and when the lockdown ends, how do we ensure the action does not transfer?
Dismantling these and other need to be carefully planned.
Early every morning, I walk down to the local super-market, the store identity will remain a secret, to protect others who may be involved.
My brother allows me to scratch through the waste bins, picking at what is edible, always I will find an unopened bread, which I need to slip into my carrier back, out of site of the surveillance cameras, then as I leave, I walk way without sideward glance at my brother.
This loaf will keep my wife and I alive, till tomorrow, I walk around the shopping area, looking for an alcohol bottle that my just have found its way onto my path, and maybe just that top of anything that I have craved for 23 days now, but alas, hundreds of thirsty and hungry feet have already swept the pavements of Johannesburg.
For the past two weeks, no longer can the smallest cigarette butt be found, life switches between the need for food, nicotine, and alcohol.
The nicotine and alcohol, banned to protect my elderly immune system, an immune system that has thrived on this habit for years, today, for the first time, I feel my immune system to be compromised, and compromised by the withdrawal symptoms that won’t go away.
I pass the traffic-light intersection, on the eight corners, hobos, pedlars, traffickers, individually, but united, trying to sell drugs to me my mindset is tempted, I consider the dagga, it does after-all contain healing elements, and it will satisfy both needs.
Maybe when the virus attacks me, my wife will understand if I bring the drugs home.
My last port of call, is a walk past the bottle store, at this stage, the urge is great, but I am to afraid to use the tool that I carry in my bag, just in case. I leave it on the criminal element who are attacking bottle-stores around the country, but I am never so lucky.
Every Radio and TV programme, promotes their support for the total lockdown, these calls ring in my mind every step that I take, hidden in the message, is that things will return to normal when this is all over.
I no longer know what ‘this’ is, and I can’t see my daily ritual ever changing returning to normal.
Will there ever be a normal?
Kaalvoet:
When I get home, I Google research all day very day, complements a neighbours Wi-fi, desperately looking for President Ramaphosa’s as yet disclosed scientific / medical research that confirms that the Coronavirus, attaches you, because of the nicotine or alcohol.
This morning I find what I am looking for, one of South Africa’s “His Master’s Voice” the surgeon general of the USA, and I quote the full article:
New York Times:
Why Coronavirus Is Killing African-Americans More Than Others
Higher rates of infection and death among minorities demonstrate the racial character of inequality in America.
By Jamelle Bouie
Opinion Columnist
April 14, 2020
We know that Covid-19 is killing African-Americans at greater rates than any other group. You can see this most clearly in the South. In Louisiana, blacks account for 70 percent of the deaths but 33 percent of the population. In Alabama, they account for 44 percent of the deaths and 26 percent of the population. South Carolina and Georgia have yet to release information on death disparities, but in both states blacks are more likely to be infected than whites. The pattern exists in the North as well, where African-American populations in cities like Chicago and Milwaukee have high infection and death rates.
Federal officials have tied these disparities to individual behavior — the surgeon general of the United States, Jerome Adams, who is African-American, urged blacks and other communities of color to “avoid alcohol, tobacco and drugs” as if this was a particular problem for those groups.
The Kaalvoet Comment:
The paragraph supra, researched by the United States surgeon general, Jerome Adams, is the only research that I can find, and based on this research, we extend ‘the no smoking, no drinking’ principle, in South Africa.
The author of this New Your Times article, in the balance of this article infra, confirms my white Apartheid mindset, they are inclined to be infected, and they will bring their infection into the ‘service sector jobs’ I should sacrifice, as this will prevent the blacks from moving into my safe zone, which will cause my death.
The author, Jamelle Bouie continues;
In truth, black susceptibility to infection and death in the coronavirus pandemic has everything to do with the racial character of inequality in the United States.
To use just a few, relevant examples, black Americans are more likely to work in service sector jobs, least likely to own a car and least likely to own their homes. They are therefore more likely to be in close contact with other people, from the ways they travel to the kinds of work they do to the conditions in which they live.
Today’s disparities of health flow directly from yesterday’s disparities of wealth and opportunity. That African-Americans are overrepresented in service-sector jobs reflects a history of racially segmented labor markets that kept them at the bottom of the economic ladder; that they are less likely to own their own homes reflects a history of stark housing discrimination, state-sanctioned and state-sponsored. And if black Americans are more likely to suffer the comorbidities that make Covid-19 more deadly, it’s because those ailments are tied to the segregation and concentrated poverty that still mark their communities.
What’s important to understand is that this racialized inequality isn’t a mistake — it isn’t a flaw in the system. It reflects something in the character of American capitalism itself, a deep logic that produces the same outcomes, again and again.
South Africa’s lockdown system, is aimed at protecting me, and elderly white suburbanite, at the expense of innocent lives of the people ‘who would not listen’.
Dear White, Elite and middle-class South Africans, who believe that “total lockdown” will keep the flu/coronavirus down to below 11 000, deaths. forgive me if I sound callous, but the collapse of the economy, and the pain being suffered by the poverty groups, in order that we can save the lives of a few ‘White, Elite and middle-class South Africans’, is a human rights abuse, that exceeds the worst in history.
Just five days back I wrote an open letter to President Ramaphosa, it is ignored by his team, and ridiculed by the ‘total lockdown’ supporters, yesterday, I confidently announced that South Africa’s total lockdown had failed, and if it continues, it will contribute to the deaths of thousands of people. These people will be mainly from the poverty communities, mainly black and coloured, I have news for you, ‘total lockdown’ has failed.
I have already answered your next assertion, but the blacks want us to save them, please read the Dear Comrades post before using this to attack my assertion ” ‘total lockdown’ has failed”.
There is only one statistic that is of importance, the deaths per 100 000 population, and it should not be counted daily, it should not be published daily, we are fighting a war, and the counting of ‘cases’ and ‘bodies’, can only be in the interests of those who will benefit from the ‘COUNT’.
When I write a letter to the President, five days back, the death count is 25, this is the most important statistic, five days back, it was 0,04253 per 100000 of the population. Five days later it had moved to 50, an 100% increase, and the statistic is now 0.08507 per 100000.
South Africa’s statistics is in the lower half of the Africa performances, yesterday, the Africa Continent, had recorded 966 deaths, @ 0,07944 per 100000.
What is South Africa’s predicted death rate, surely the President, and all his men, should have this figure, based on the statistics that we are using, before we commit economic suicide, by going to war against a hidden virus.
The USA entered the war, on a death prediction of 2 million souls, @ 523,28634 per 100000. The latest death total, is 32 230 @ 8,43276 per 100000.
In South Africa, influenza (commonly known as flu) kills between 6000-11,000 people every year. About half of these deaths are in the elderly, and about 30% in HIV-infected people. The highest rates of hospitalization are in the elderly (65 years and older), HIV-infected people and children less than 5 years old. Pregnant women are also at increased risk of hospitalization and death from flu infections. People with chronic illnesses like diabetes, lung disease, tuberculosis and heart disease are also at increased risk of being hospitalized from the flu.
During the flu season in South Africa about 8-10% of patients hospitalized for pneumonia and 25% of patients with flu-like illness (fever and cough) will test positive for influenza.
This is a fairly large range, and for the purposes on my comment, will be average the 6 000 – 11 000 as our annual base line deaths, according to the NICD, about 50% of the deaths are in the elder group.
Using the average of the 6 to 11 thousand as 8 500, our death rate for normal seasonal flu is @ 14,46199 per 10000, if it reaches the top of the seasonal range of 11 000, our death statistic would be, @ 18,71788 per 100000.
The USA is very carefully only predicting that they can keep the death rate to 60 000, @ 15,59859 per 100000, the USA Coronavirus death rate, is what South Africa suffer annually, on average, as part of seasonal flu.
Any specific questions asked with regard to this post, I will answer, any comment that will not allow us restore our people to the time before coronavirus, I will delete.
Any Academic, who would like to give direction to a wayward mind, by providing explanations and the scientific models, proven and tested, that motivated the sacrificing of our economy, and condemning our poverty groups to imprisonment, in conditions that you no prisoner is allowed to suffer, your input is welcome.
April 17. 2020
Cedric de la Harpe;
WARNING, this is not approved by the WHO, it is penned by a 73 year-old white South African, who does not support the ‘total lockdown’ for the negative impact it has on the economy, and in particular, the poverty groups.
My open letter to the President, has resulted in a lengthy response, on the WhatsApp group, it is a mindset challenge that I need to answer, not necessarily, just as a courtesy to the contributor, but to every one of my friends and family, who feel that I am giving the economy, preference over life.
The following contribution fits into pamphlet 01, and the screenshot below is the important part, that I need to answer satisfactorily;
Comment on Dear President
We have been shown the Italian Coronavirus Curve, that is frightening, ours not, we do have escalation, the one example is the East London prison, that is climbing.
Coronavirus Curves
South Africa’s infections, can’t be compared with the Italian Coronavirus Curve, firstly, Italy was in their seasonal flu season, but as the Coronavirus Curve, reportedly attacks the elders, we look at how far apart we are, my assessment questions whether the experts have any medical or scientific theory to make a decision on the Western European curves;
The Italian population density is 4,20 times greater than in South Africa, and the percentage of the population over the age of 65 years 3,70 times greater than South Africa.
Italy versus South Africa’s FACTOR
We are shutting down our economy, when the Countries life expectancy does not allow many to get to 65, if the economy shuts down, the life expectancy will dip.
South Africa Life Expectancy
As a community, we need to be aware of those elderly who have medical conditions, because when our flu season arrives in May, the Coronavirus will be back.
If we look at Stats SA 2016 survey, 100 000 elderly people dies, and 80 000 of them died from causes that could be attributed to compromised immune system / underlying causes, do we attribute these normal deaths to Coronavirus, or can we expect 80 000 on top of these deaths.
Ten Causes of Death, among persons aged 60.
I consider myself a ‘racist in recovery’, and often I have great difficult in expressing my thoughts, however, my white mindset, feared that this would happen, long before I discovered the history on the Spanish Flu, and this mindset, would be entrenched in every white European.
South Africa, having received the first 250 infected international travellers from March 01, 2020, has one of the lowest death rates, per 100 000 population in the world.
Africa is unexpectedly low, parts of Eastern Europe not far behind in the ‘low stakes’.
The African and Eastern European communities, for the past two hundred years, have needed to protect themselves from the pressures that they faced, in order to just to feed and educate themselves, and with a very limited medical service, these communities have needed to survive, by avoiding the medical obstacles.
These communities may not know what the Coronavirus is, but when there is a threat to their lives, they know how to protect themselves from the threat, they know how to survive.
On the other extreme, the Westerner needs to have any perceived threat in lockdown, for fifty years, they have not exposed themselves to any danger.
From a young child, they leave their home in mom’s car, and never get exposed to the danger outside the gate, high fences and the black security guard, protects them from the perceived threat.
The African children, throughout Africa, are street-wise from a very young age, the African children without ever becoming aware that they are being skilled, develop all their parents skills, and the most important skill developed, is the ‘survival skill’.
No medical or scientifically proven theory, has yet shown me that the ‘black people are going to die like flies’.
If I for one minute, believed that the blacks would die like flies, I would not concern myself about what is left of the economy when the storm has passed, there would be fewer people to feed, and those who survived the storm, would be grateful for what they could get.
I know the conditions that my black brothers and sisters live in, and when I saw news reports on Day 1 of the lockdown, my white mindset feared the projected 5 000 infections by April 01, 2020, my indigenous experienced mindset, had confidence that my black brothers and sisters would survive, and thus, with the economy destroyed, I feared for them.
I watched the statistics, and by April 05, I was surprised that the graph had not started moving exponentially.
When the system talks about restoring the Economy, this does not include he informal economy, in no text-book, in no curriculum, will you find the informal economy as part of the Capitalists thinking.
80% of the Africa population, live a life in the informal economy, this economy has fed and educated the masses in Africa, the Global World Brains Trust, know and understand the concept of load-shedding, our Electricity Supply Commission, our most experienced participant.
Very simply, once a network totally shuts down, getting it started is impossible, thus, load-shedding is aimed a keeping the system flow, even though at a reduced level, this keeps the entire system prepared to supply, when the ‘technicality’ is repaired.
The local taxi industry, the informal traders, the shebeens, the spaza shops, are the basis of the ‘black economy’, businesses that the black has developed, through the inconvenience of the white capitalist to get too close to the black population, has been shut down.
These industries are worth billions to the Global Market, who are preparing to move into the Townships and Rural Villages, as the informal and SMMEs are waiting for the promised funding that keeps them quiet while in the trenches.
Now back to the whether the ‘blacks will die like flies’?
Before I opened my mouth about the possibility that South Africa does not have an exponential virus curve because of the season, I scrutinised Europe, and found great discrepancies in certain areas, and the flu season was not the main contributor.
Nigeria, where the flu season ran from October to April, much like Italy, for the population has an extremely low Coronavirus death rate expressed as a percentage of the population, some 14 times less than South Africa.
Africa Coronavirus Summary
Africa at this stage only has 835 deaths, at the percentage of population, 0,0000687%.
Eastern Europe, in the seasonal flu zone?
I accept that the Coronavirus is contagious, the African and parts of the Eastern European communities, unexpectedly, do not follow the Western European exponential infection curve.
Anyone following the Coronavirus news, will be aware of the Belarus President who rejected the Lockdown, kept his borders open, the Football league continued with spectators, the Ice Hockey league continued with spectators, and the world watch his country.
Belarus President, Alexander Lukashenko, does not Lockdown, and claims that none of his people will die from Coronavirus, not unless they have underlying medical conditions.
Having assessed his statistics, I looked at his neighbours, and one of which is Russia, this group completely different, still 5 times worse than South Africa, but hundreds of times better than Western Europe;
The next page compares the very vastly different Coronavirus deaths expressed as percentage of the population, expressed as a ratio to 1 death in South Africa, and 1 death in Africa Total:
The percentage death ratio on population,
to 1 South African death, to 1 Africa Total death
Japan 2,16 1,41
Russia + 4,95 3,24
China 5,31 3,48
USA 132,92 87,07
United Kingdom 376,32 246,50
France 496,42 325,16
Italy 732,60 479,87
The Westerner fears the Coronavirus, Japan does not go into total lockdown, keeping their economy stable, if it was not for the Western teams withdrawing from the Olympics, Japan would have gone ahead.
World Summary Comparisons
China is back in business, Russia is issuing permission to travel.
My wife and I are both 70 >, we will be one of the elderly death statistics if not in 2020, but soon, I can’t ask anyone to sacrifice their economy, while I need to survive another season under lockdown.
The Global Market Brains Trust, will decide when the war to save lives is over, the death statistics will be forgotten. The majority of the population, suffering human rights abuses, will celebrate the aggressor, the victor, no matter what shape, what form, what colour they are, with welcome waves, as the drink, clothing, and food supply trucks move in.
South Africa’s economy has steadily disintegrated over the past ten years, and over these years, I have written to the various State Presidents with advice, never critical, always attempting to assist, yet never receiving any comment on my input.
Today, I am a dissenting voice, I am critical, and my normal channels of delivering to Pretoria, or couriering, are closed to me till the war ends, so I need to use an open letter, and social media.
Hopefully, one of your advisors, may forward this letter to you, rather than blocking all voices of reason, by programming the system to automatically trash them.
Mr President, your advisors should never have advised you to proceed with ‘Total Lockdown’, never have advised you to go into war, without a complete balance between our Economy, that you knew we would sacrifice, before your declared war, and whether there was any scientific or medical research, done in terms of what, before January 2020, was the only basis for research to be accepted.
South Africa, was never a threat to any of the European, American, Russian, Asian populations if we did not lockdown, and rather, we should have exploited the economic profit potential, that the overseas ‘fear factor’ was giving us.
Without your consultants and advisors, understanding who or what our enemy is, you are directed to sacrifice a large portion of our economy, with many thousands of small businesses, the millions of informal traders, the millions of jobs, without us receiving any potential ‘asset benefit’ to the Country, or the people, and we are forced into this war, based on how many thousands of people ‘are’ going to die, if we do not sacrifice our economy.
Never has a Country called men, women and children to war, without the Country going into a war, that would protect the countries income production, land, minerals, agriculture, and the ability to produce. If Country has not gone to war, to protect its land and economy, then it has gone to war, to attach the other countries wealth.
Never has a country gone into a war, without knowing that people were going to die, whether the aggressors own people, or the defenders.
Never has the aggressor, nor the defender, gone into war, with any concern for whether innocent people, woman and children, would die, and if and when, how many of them would die.
Mr President, even though you are not old enough to have experienced the 1918 Spanish Flu, still called a flu today, it was a killer, a killer that the black elders remembered for 60 years thereafter.
The Spanish flu arrived allegedly on two boats, carrying the South African Native Labour members returning from the First World War, these members recruited by the South African Native National Congress, served the English during the First World War.
A few men were feeling symptoms of a slight flu, they were despatched by rail to their homelands late September 1918, and many died en route, 300 000 died in total, unlike Coronavirus, where 95% of the infected will live, 95% of the infected died, painful quick deaths.
What the archives clearly show, is that the impact of the Spanish Flu on the black community, was the one event that contributed directly, to the ‘dependence factor’ on the white capitalist, dependence that our black population, were forced into.
The 300 000 that died were in the prime of their life, between 18 and 40 years-old, not the aged and infirm, the returning soldiers, who were joined by the mine and industry labour, returning home when everything closed down, the military men, the labour force, 6,6% of the African population, perished in six weeks.
The Spanish flu endemic was over in six weeks, and labour recruitment started early November 1918, as the mining industry, and the white Capitalist, resumed extracting wealth off our minerals and agriculture.
The research material never identifies the reason for the disappearance of the flu in six weeks, was it our climate during the period of infection, that is not conducive to the European flu.
The Western world believed that the Africans, would die like in 1918, and through WHO guidance, we had an anticipated 4000 infections over a period of five days, from March 27, to April 01, 2020, and the world had already made plans to inoculate the Africans.
Coronavirus Exponential Curve
The exponential curve, I believe was motivated with our links at the WHO, and when levelling takes place, as seen from the following graph, the powerful international medical industry, off which our NHI policy is based, motivates the “quiet before the storm” policy to keep us in lockdown.
The Curve levels off.
The graph that I attach below, shows that six weeks after the arrival of the Coronavirus, the virus is dissipating.
Test based in input base
The USA and China are locked in a race to see who can develop a vaccine to inoculate the population of Africa, the third force is the rest of the world, are uniting to save the African, seeking their own inoculation.
Is there any scientific research to prove that our population needs to be inoculated, is there any scientific proof, that will stand up to the pre-2020 medical standards requirement, before any medicines are released on the human?
Is it not a human-rights abuse, to subject any human to any form of medicine, that does not comply with pre-2020 standards?
The six week period, March 22 to April 30, 2020, has placed our entire country into the ‘dependence factor’, dependence on the wealth of the world, just who the appointed coloniser will be, we are not sure, but South Africa is ripe for the next ‘economic colonization’.
Mr President, 25 people have died, most elderly, and with compromised immune systems, the police have already killed 3 black people, plus two who died in police custody, people who refused to stay in the trenches, 5 healthy people, granted blacks who were not obeying their leader.
The media tells us about the world benefits from lockdown, we are told that crime has decreased, this Mr President, is a different ‘quiet before the storm’, as hunger and the craving for a tot of whiskey increases, if the State is unable to meet ‘all’ the promises that funds would be available, to restore us to the positions we were in prior to the war, crime and conflict will escalate exponentially.
Mr President, most of my comrades sitting quietly in the trenches, have great fear for the virus, the fear factor, contributes to speeding up the destruction of the immune system, not only speeding death, but making it more difficult for the front line medical staff, to maintain the bedside calmness, for the patient to believe that there is a chance that they will survive, calmness and clear heads, that would prevent the situation , that took place in St Augustine, things happen when under pressure.
Whether it is a virus or a bullet, the fear factor contributes to the soldier dying, as Commander in Chief, if I was facing bullets for you in the trench, how would you manage ‘my’ fear factor, to keep ‘me’ fighting for the cause?
“Sir, even if a bullet hits me in the head, I would like to believe that I will live, and return home to my business.”
Mr President, it is still not too late for us to remove the lockdown, not only to recover our economy, but to allow entrepreneurs to start producing and filling the void, that Europe and the USA are fighting over.
Mr President, this letter will be followed with topics for interaction with those of us in the trenches, those who would like to understand what is taking place in this war, a war where our Country has sacrificed our economy, our businesses, our job opportunities.
I will continue posting ‘from the trenches’ on http://cedricdelaharpe.co.za/ your consultants and advisors, are welcome to follow, to ask questions, maybe it is not too late to prevent re-colonization, as we defeat the enemy.
Before I move forward, I need to define my anger, why am I angry, why am I critical of our new Democratic Government and our 1994 to 1997 Constitution?
Maybe it is because I am racist, I was never anti-Apartheid?
My wife Nettie and I, first visit Soweto in July 2004, and our lives change, not too many of the people that have helped our lives change, have received life changing benefits from us.
During 2013, as South Africa commemorates the 1913 Native Land Act, me, a South African, classified as white, enjoying the privileges of this classification, decides to research South Africa’s history, off a very simple question I pose to myself;
“Who were we, the people of South Africa, prior to 1913, and how did we get from 1913, to where we are today?”
My findings shake me to the core, if I was classified black during Apartheid, I would have sourced an AK47, and mowed down as many whites as I could, before I was killed.
For six weeks I was paralysed with anger, unable to talk to my white brothers and sisters, about my ‘findings’, my black brothers and sisters looking at me with blank stares, as if I was stupid.
A young Nigerian Princess, visiting Soweto with a Taste of Africa, interacts with me, at the height of my anger, and her advice to me, is to convert my anger into the positive, and do something about it.
My outlet for my anger, is to ‘write’ manuscripts, everything that I wrote, I needed to present in such a manner, that I never let the white Capitalist economy, feel that my revelations are a threat to their business interests, and prevent my black brothers and sisters from feeling uncomfortable, as I attack their economic masters, any seen support for me, places their opportunity for employment in jeopardy.
What are my findings that cause this anger?
“If it was not for what my English Colonisers did, the Blacks would be the ‘wealth’ of South Africa today, the Townships would not exist, and black poverty would not exist.”
Economic Segregation is the prime evil.
“I equate the damage that we did with the Holocaust, and I ask the question, was it equal to, was it lesser than, or was it greater than?”
Coronavirus experiences changes mindsets let the Voice of Reason talk, there are few people in the world, who are not suffering, whether just inconvenience, or in the poverty informal communities, extreme abuse, as they are violently forced into shacks, to protect the unknown victims from death.
Voice of Reason, what would your community do?
The passionate pleas to be heard, by those suffering poverty and inhumanity, wakes me up to the concept that Human Dictate, as a label, is a white man’s label, whether living in the northern suburbs, the southern suburbs, or the South Western Townships, every community has a set of standards and logic, that dictates their lives, these Voices of Reason, may be vastly different, but every communities Voice of Reason should be heard.
Cricket South Africa, and Rugby South Africa, at risk of collapsing financially, and possibly permanently, if they do not apply some Enlightened Thinking;
Government, and many businesses, are first going to restore a sustainable business operating level, before they will be able to invest in elite sports.
TV Rights, will be under pressure, as their range of saleable products need to be reestablished, the number of subscriptions that will need to be cancelled, will need to be restored, to bring financial power.
With regard to Cricket South Africa, they have funds to pay all players, Proteas, Franchise, and I assume management, full pay till end of August, and then they will reassess their future.
This is stupid, and here I am not going to debate the options, only to say that throughout the world, sports bodies are giving consideration to the way forward, and cutting wages and salaries.
I have often quoted the reason for why Eskom must implement ‘load-shedding’, because, Eskom to go into Total Black-Out, no electricity available in the network, it will be impossible to restart. This ‘load-shedding’ takes place automatically, in most computerised networks, for the same reason.
The attitude that CSA will reassess, when they reach end August, is indicative of the belief that either the Government, the Sponsors, or the TV Rights, will come to their rescue, and I quote.
“So, at this stage we have enough capacity to see us through the next season. Post the season we’ll have to look at the longer-term impacts of Covid-19.”
Should the Corporate, or the Government, not have the ability to fund the Proteas and Franchise players, their skills will earn them money, in a larger Global attempt to re-lunch of the game at top level?
The South African Rugby Players Union, reportedly agreed to a wage cut, but the Officials Refused to, so the status quo continues.
The USA Rugby Union Company, has collapsed financially, and I am of the opinion, they will never recover.
When the war against Coronavirus is over, the Government, Corporate Sponsors, TV Broadcast Rights, will be presented with a cheaper investment option, through funding school sports in the Townships and Rural Villages, the number of spectators and TV followers, will exceed the numbers ‘before Coronavirus’.
The rules for playing the elite sports games, will be change drastically, one of the few positives caused in the war against Coronavirus.
Social Distancing did I fail my community this morning, is the question I asked myself, as I take the extended long walk, using the scenic walk back home from Pick & pay, Campus Square.
I arrive at my destination, finding myself 30 metre from he shop entrance, I keep my 1,5 metre spacing from the person ahead, one of only three spaces in the queue.
I notice a Security Guard, interacting with the queue, some ten metres ahead of me, from where I am positioned, I get the impression that the people in the queue were being given instruction to deposit certain items at an entrance of a neighbouring shop, and leave the queue to investigate.
The depositing that had just taken place, supported by maybe 4 people, was an old man, masked, old and obviously with a major health problem, who had just been deposited on the chair that the security guard had brought.
My first cultivated reaction, is to run off to Dischem, only 30 meters away, and report the possibility that I had discovered a possible Coronavirus patient.
My feet are unable to move my legs, I am trapped by the realisation that in am part of a queue of old age pensioners, pension day payout, who have been waiting for this day for 30 days, in order to put food on the table.
I suggest to the Security Guard that he arranges to move the old man in question to the front of the queue, all persons in the queue where we are, nod approval for mu suggestion.
The Security Guard is not sure, so I take him with me to obtain permission.
The Guard moves into the store, and starts a discussion with the guard who is maintaining control of those entering the store, the queue is not her responsibility.
I ask the two black gentlemen at the front of the queue whether they would kind enough to allow an old gentlemen space ahead of them.
Both nod approval with a smile, take one step back into their danger zone, and in unison, wave me into position.
My turn to smile, I thank them, and tell them that I have found an old man with greater need than me.
I move back to the old man, tell his carer to take him into the store, the Security Guard now arrives and with the Carer, use the office Chair that he was sitting on, to wheel him into the shop.
As I return towards my original space, the persons in the queue are smiling, nodding approval, and the person where I was standing, has kept my space open, initially smiling, then showing surprise as I abandon my space.
I abandoned my space, because I considered the old man, to possibly be infected, and on my long walk home, I question whether I have failed those in the queue, my community back home, should I have reported my suspicions, that would have resulted in many in the queue being isolated, to allow their families eat?
