Sackey on a Fool’s Errand

I just couldn’t get myself to write earlier about the bold faced mindlessness of one Sackey Shangala.

You know your country is in shit up to its armpits when one of its supposed pre-eminent legal minds sounds like Julius Malema’s dumb brother.
I just couldn’t believe it when I read that Shangala, as head of the law reform commission, wants to introduce laws to regulate the media. What kind of a law reform commissioner is this who can’t read?
Media freedom is a constitutional guarantee. It means don’t touch it, comrade.
It sounds as if this upstart wants to create another parastatal that you and me will have to bankroll while the media have taken it upon themselves to regulate their industry and are paying for the pleasure themselves.
Shouldn’t little Sackey, who isn’t even an admitted legal practitioner, concentrate on regulating the alcohol industry or bring the lawlessness in the property industry under control?
Wouldn’t it be just something if our little Sackey, who never argued a case in anger in front of even a trainee magistrate, would do his job and get Parliament to repeal all those unjust apartheid-era laws?
But then again, how would this LLB holder know which laws are practical? This is the guy who couldn’t make a success of a beer brewing business, in Namibia of all places.  
But you would want to muzzle the media when your millionaire civil servant status is questioned. When your dealings with the government (which you work for) are  exposed regularly and when you cashed in on millions from government’s fuel imports, while not even owning a post office box.
Hey wena Sackey, when are you guys finishing the Unam hostels?
So our Sackey has quite a bit to hide from the public but since he’s a staunch SPYL member, no one would foresee him roping in the help of imperialists to trample upon our hard won freedoms.
See, Sackey is bringing two British-based barristers, at huge cost no doubt, to help Swapo’s over sensitive servants of the people steal some of the freedoms of the people.
I’m pretty sure our Sackey isn’t the least bit worried that Namibia’s standing on the international stage could be dealt a crippling blow by the arrogance of our rulers.
Just because our naked emperors don’t like us plebs to point at their wrinkly willies and laugh, and because they don’t want us to see how far up the Chinese’s arses Swapo’s ineptocracy have crawled, they want to diminish the powers of the media!
While the media have their fair share of miscreants and ill-adventures, they generally adhere to globally accepted norms and ethics. I don’t think I can say that about politicians. Especially about those politicians who think we owe them something, those who think because South Africa enact a messy, unfair and unjust law, we have to do the same.
I pity these fools, as Mr T used to say.
It’s a slippery slope. Today we mess around with freedom of the press, tomorrow we say the San people must carry a pass and before you know it, you sit in a jail because you said Shangala was an idiot.
I get such a nice warm fuzzy feeling when the formerly oppressed so nicely follow in the footsteps of their oppressors.
I’m not for one moment saying Sackey aspires to be PW Botha but the signs are there: A small minority (the ruling class) pissing about with the rights and freedoms of the majority simply because they don’t like us having so many rights.

Now here’s a suggestion: Anyone who says stupid shit in public should be fined his weight in Camelthorne beer.
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