Cyril
Ramaphosa is a potential Presidential candidate and is likely to become the
next President of South Africa. The government has therefore agreed to permit
his visit and appear civil to Cyril, despite the protestations of their
Coalition partners, the JHU and NFF. Further we may need south Africa's help in the international sphere and do not wish to upset a few friends we have, as Jacob Zuma is a fellow despot in a smaller scale!
Of course the noise made by both of them
far outweigh their electoral importance, and as such our Media should be castigated
for even reporting what Warnasighe for the JHU says or what Weerawansa
pontificates as that is totally irrelevant to the debate.
The
visit is for the administration to fool the South Africans, and what is the bet
he will leave with a lot of nice things to say about MR and his Govt. as they
will say everything Cyril wants to hear and as is quite usual do quite the
opposite. This is a tried and tested drama as it relates to foreign visitors
coming to Sri Lanka to give their two cents on the impasse that is Sri Lanka.
The ball is in the Govt. court to solve the problem and they can if they so wish,
but they have NO INTENTION of doing so as they believe it is better electorally
not to solve it for their longevity.
When
we have a Govt. in power that is NOT concerned about the people who live in it
what can we say that will help the state of play other than to quickly get rid
of this Govt. Sadly we are not powerful enough to do so, and at present the
people of Sri Lanka are completely under the spell of lies perpetuated by the
Govt.
Being
held hostage to this drama is not in the best interests of this country, but
ALL SRI LANKANS are hostages here.
Let
us hope that Cyril will be able to use his charm, that he used so eloquently in
the negotiations to ensure that were able to end apartheid on our stubborn
leaders to be less stubborn and sort out a very simple problem even when one
looks at the ongoing problems South Africa faces today. We should be in a
position to advise South Africa and not the reverse.
As long as we have these despots in power it
is likely to be a long haul to be free from international interference. It is ironic
that the man who says that they can solve their own problems will have to deal
with international outcry until he leaves office, and then all problems will be
solved. So he is the cause of international interference. He will not understand, but let us hope that the people will sooner rather than later.
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