So, s’cuse my insults when I read in one of the papers that Nico Sibolile ran into a whole eight grand and had the audacity to return it to the owner.

Of course, my first thought was that he is one bumbling fool. And no, I don’t regret it.

I overrated him. Sibolile is not a hero. He is a nice taxi driver who knew that he was going to get caught anyway.

Let’s face it.

There are cameras all over Windhoek. Everywhere. Almost everyone knows that. Including Sibolile.

Except the poor auntie who bestowed this heroic status on him.

What is admirable though is that he came to his senses. You would have been a fool not to, Boli. So would anyone else.

Because, for starters, Kanime would have questioned you about the location where you picked up the auntie.

Then he would have traced your honest arse all the way to where you dropped her. We both know what the deal is. So, screw the Sibolile gospel.

But I admire you for one thing, comrade. You’re nice. Stupidly so. You believe in whatever they said was honesty. Which is what I believe in. These mofos got us so good.

But truth be told, the only religion that is worth being religionly is ubuntu.

And it is all pronounced in one sentence: “I am because you are.”

Everything else is not worth it.

Which is another reason why I believe in you. May the force give you all blessings that were intended for Shanghala.

In less than 24 hours you did what he could not do in so many years of being entrusted with the entire country’s legal system.

Who does that? The comrade was given the blueprint to reform the laws of the entire republic. He did a shoddy job.

And then we have the sugar daddy of the nation. Everything was fishy about this dude. Not from the start I suppose.

Because no leader can be such a fool about spotting red flags. Except, of course, if he was involved. But that’s none of my business.

So, going forward, let’s just do the right thing. Which is to normalise being nice. Like paying back money owed to the state.

And hiring better folks at the GIPF. Kandara’s ghost is still haunting us. And nobody gives a hoot about some one hundred million said to have vanished at some government agency without a properly defined portfolio.

Yes, that is how the founding folks farted around. I mean, what the flip is NEEEF?

And the less said about the mass housing scheme, the better.

Now we have all the Uncle Bobs congratulating Sibolile for being a good citizen. If you all knew that, why did you not practise it?

So, here it is, Mr Sibolile: You’re a good citizen in a bad country.

I, for one, do not have that patience.

Because Namibians are hellluva ungrateful.

And even if you do good they won’t notice. Ons is gatvol.

But we still appreciate the efforts of the few.