Zuma is very much concerned and worried about the media
tendency in South Africa to report the negativity or only the bad news.
Although Zuma is president of this country; it seems he is from a different planet
- a planet only he knows where it is. Because, if he was indeed from South Africa,
he would know that South Africa is indeed captivated by a culture of
negativity. But who’s fault is it Zuma? Certainly not the media’s fault. They are
not responsible for corruption, crime, farm killings, rape, murder, poor
service delivery on all levels of government, the collapse of health services
in the country, petrol price sky-rocketing, all roads in South Africa deteriorating except the etoll-roads, and so forth, and so
forth.
So, with this concern of Zuma in my head that the media was
only reporting the negative or bad things, I was watching SABC2 news (AKA His Master’s
Voice) last night, the 7 O’clock bulletin when out of the blue it was reported of a
domestic worker in Cape Town who laid criminal charges against her employer for
racial abuse over many years. A big thing was made of it. The poor victim on
camera, swearing, with her black lawyer in his robe for all to see complaining
about the racial abuse. So sad. And then they switched to the employer and he
was surprised that she is still working for him in spite of all his atrocities
against her - cry racist?
But, do not get me wrong, I am not saying it is not true.
What I am saying is that the SABC can stop wasting my license fee on such
trivial matters. If not, then they should also waste money on black-on-white
racial incidents, like the farm killings, like a black person breaking into a
white person’s house only to murder, no intention of stealing or any other
crime.
And, the punch line is, Zuma should start at the SABC first
to clean up their act of wasting time and money on trivial negative news!
PS: One fact is for certain - Zuma is indeed concerned. As you can see on the photo, he is even depressed because of it!!
