Give us your opinion: You want to do what …?!
Pack your picnic baskets, it's going to be a riot.
A cough. The clearing of throats. Then silence. That surreal moment where you can not decide whether it is so-called fake news or really another harebrained idea of our banana republic government.
Yes, fellow countrymen and women, the Minister of Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, has REALLY thought it a … ahem … good idea to start a discussion on changing the name of our country. He allegedly said the current name is nothing more than a geographic description of where we are.
Pack your picnic baskets, this is going to be a riot in every sense of the word. There will be controversy, but that will eventually fade. We will continue being the kleptocracy we are and it will be business as usual. Very serious questions, though, are about the logistics and costs of such an endeavour. Every piece of government stationery will have to be reprinted. The same goes for our money. Signage will have to be redone, the names of the government departments, our police force and the different branches of the National Defence Force will have to change – all of this at a high financial cost. And it is not as if our country is in the grips of a recession and looting spree. Sigh.
And what will it be? The evergreen Msanzi or the more revolutionary Azania? Maybe we can name it after our ‘founding father’ Nelson Mandela?
I am going with The Kleptocratic Banana Republic …
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