What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. – Angela Davis

It’s 1  : 00  PM on day 1284 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  pray,   brush my teeth, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, read Job 18, watch the news, publish my Disability of the Day feature,  and  promote my Eradicate AIDS campaign – no donations so far today – practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, stretch my hamstrings and spend time outside.

Yesterday I read Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has found President Jacob Zuma misled Parliament when he claimed that the Zuma family was responsible for the cost of upgrades to his private homestead in Nkandla and I was fuming there are kids starving in the streets and our head of state, the one who is supposed to lead this country by example, reportedly spent an estimated 246 MILLION rand of the government’s money on upgrading his homestead I know he’s the President of South Africa and that I’m supposed to respect him but my respect is earned not given.