Comrades' Marathon
(A novel about the South African struggle for economic liberation)
Written By?
Now here is a great book crying to be written. I see this book being ghost-written by Ntime Skhosana, who is a spokesperson for Mpumalanga's premier, Thabang Makwetla.
Mpumalanga is a province that I know has been hard-hit by corruption. For anyone to make money from government's projects, one has to be a comrade, or at least has to know one. Billions have been pumped into the Big Five Flagship projects in this province, and it is the prerogative of the comrades to make sure that they go out. It's called channeling. It's a crime by name, but a profession by creed. Everybody knows it. No one can even pretend that they get a tender based on pure merit; somehow someway, there is a comrade benefitting, if not comrades.
Skhosana is indeed the write person. He knows, most probably, all the secrets that are hovering on the walls of the provincial government complex, and beyond. He's been close enough to all the high profile going-ons in the government and only he, and others linked to HOD's and MEC's know the real story of government's holistic approach to broad based black economic empowerment. I am not alleging that Skhosana is corrupt or that he has ever been involved in corruption. All I am saying is that if this mind-blowing novel were to be well-written, Skhosana would be the man. For instance, he has attended all the meetings that you and I were barred from attending. He knows about the 100 internal fraud cases that Makwetla is beating around the bush to release to the public. He has been with the premier in aeroplanes, in hotel rooms, at private functions, everywhere.
Comrades' Marathon would begin at the battle for premiership, the corridors of power control executive meetings, dodgy press releases, resignations of HOD's and parastatal CEO's, un-repayable loans that disappeared in the bank account of some non-existant company, through to the reshuffles that have hit the province.
Comrades' Marathon would be a compelling story of a black young South African man called Setapora whose ambitions are forced to bow to the will of the comrades, who run everything – every single cent that leaves the coffers of the Treasury.
His would be ambition meets reality, re-interrogates ethics and faces the hard rock and devil of decision. Of course an alluring female other would be serve as a Tantalising honeymoon fantasy dangled before his naïve eyes.
However, since Skhosana won't take up the challenge to ghost-write the piece as Tshwarelo eseng Mogakane, then maybe someone else should. Maybe a group of people who know people. Maybe you.
The address is heydad@webmail.co.za
Write me and let's see what you think.
NB: The title of the would-be novel was “coined” by Kasiekulture. The concept for the novel was birthed by Holy Nigga #1. I rather be ya n.i.g.g.a
Below: Goodenough's take on the BEE marathon (as he recently became a victim of the greed of government caste.
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Just so people should be clued the Comrades Marathon will be about comrades running to see who gets to the finishing line first within the cut-off time. The finishing line is a shiny silver Hummer Two and a penthouse at Michelanagelo, the cut-off time is the end of Thabo Mbeki's reign in the Union Buildings. And so Makwetla, through his connections to Global Interface (pioneering spirit) and other tpurroc practices is ahead of the pack and looks set to finish first, but then he has his goons whose names we know but will shift litigation to lawyers who are running with him. If you are not a comrade you are not allowed to run, but you can make the mistake of running without realising you will not be allowed to finish or alone, you will be disqualified at the finishing line like some of us were? Funny, that Skhosana will not take the opportunity to be another Dan Brown and give us names of more comrades in the running and how far are they from the finishing line.
(The views in red are not necessarily the views of Holy Nigga #1, and therefore this website is not liable for publishing this opinion.)
2 comments:
just so people shoul be clued the Comrades Marathon will be about comrades running to see who gets to the finishing line first within the cut-off time. The finishing line is a shiny silver Hummer Two and a penthouse at Michelanagelo, the cut-off time is the end of Thabo Mbeki's reign in the Union Buildings. And so Makwetla, through his connections to Global Interface (pioneering spirit) and other corrupt practises is ahead of the pack and looks set to finish first, but then he has his goons whose names we know but will shift litigation to lawyers who are running with him. If you are not a comrade you are not allowed to run, but you can make the mistake of running without realising you will not be allowed to finish or alone, you will be disqualified at the finishing line like some of us were? Funny, that Skhosana will not take the opportunity to be another Dan Brown and give us names of more comrades in the running and how far are they from the finishing line.
ah the joys of bee-ing in mpumalanga coupled with our dying dreams of ever owning that souped up hummer that have forced some of us to pursue further education since there is no hope for enterprising young minds that aren't part of the system. i was getting tired of watching my ideas being converted by other more connected but clueless people. by the way the corruption extends to parastatals that are supposed to lend money. oh and just in case you were wondering why i am studying in venda, did u know mpumalanga is the only province without a university of its own?
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