So much has happened in this country since the recording of this episode, and here is some of the big events I would like to reflect on before we get into today’s episode. last week, , we woke up to the tragic news of AKA being shot outside a club in Durban. But at the same time, during the mourning process and the shock that many people are rightfully displaying, some other weird things also start happening. You see people on twitter, who were not that close to AKA, who are just remote fans like myself, become a little bit hysterical, almost to a point of attention seeking. I saw someone joke that, Rasta is busy preparing his paint as we speak, and I mean that is a fairly innocuous joke, it is not insensitive in any way because it is not making fun of AKA’s death itself or making fun of the fact that he is dead, so when I went into the comments, most people just chuckled along and liked the joke, because it is a South African inside joke that when someone passes away, Rasta will soon paint a remotely resembling portrait of them, which he did eventually by the way, and this time around it wasn’t bad honestly. But then some people started attacking this poor guy for this joke, the “its too soon brigade”. And if we are being honest, how angry are they really about this joke, or do they just want to demonstrate how good and compassionate people they are, who care so much about AKA’s death that they are willing to attack another guy who probably didn’t know AKA in real life just like them, for making a harmless joke in the mist of the news about his death. I cannot help but think that this virtue signalling behaviour is the product of the woke culture that is currently dominating social media these days, where people think the more outrage they express, the more of good hearts we will think they have. Don’t even get me started with Panyaza Lesufi and his attempts to get AKA a state funeral. Put aside the argument about whether or not AKA deserves a state funeral, but do we really think an attention seeking politician like Panyaza Lesufi was trying to do this out of the goodness of his heart? Or it was just an opportunity for his to grand stand and pave his way to the 2024 elections, like we have seen him do with many issues that he knows are close to people’s hearts. This guy is really starting to become annoying. It was all good when he was doing it during his MEC of Education days, but now it is getting too much bro. We don’t have to see you handing out sanitary pads to school girls, you can do it privately, in fact, something like that should be done privately. For those who have not seen that picture, you don’t want to its too cringe. The second thing that started happening that brought with it some bizzare things as well, is when people want to try and piece together what happened and what was the motive behind. And unfortunately, knowing the incompetence of Bheki Cele and his people, we may never know, we may have to wait another 10 years like we saw with the Senzo Meyiwa case. Everyone is doing their own research these days; we don’t need the so-called experts anymore. But guys, we cannot build a justice system on twitter threads and Youtube channels. As cute as alternative media, alternative medicine, alternative this and that may be, we cannot rely on Adv Barry Roux twitter account to resolve the crime for us in this country, we need the police force that work, we need impartial and competent courts, we need intelligence, we need experts.
