In Hollywood Chuck Norris would romp in to save us all, but things in South Africa are not so easily solved, writes Murray Williams.
Every now and then, a Hollywood blockbuster hits the big screen with a fresh new way of telling us we’re all going to die. The doomsday threats are myriad – meteorites, aliens, ice ages, famines, mutant viruses, tidal waves, nuclear war, the sun exploding.
They scare the hell out of us, until a knight on a white horse, a retired NYPD detective, Steven Seagal, Bruce Willis or – please, God, yes – Chuck Norris romps in to save us all. But things in South Africa are not so easily solved, and this isn’t a movie, nor some “external threat”.
Yet it’s just as dire. The threat is “hopelessness”. The manifestations take many forms – but three in particular: crime, protest and land invasion.
Leadership is in urgent demand…
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