The World's a Stage

Lights, camera.....action! The media is a buzz with the important things as usual, which is expected really. We have not even had enough of the mirth created by the former Prime Minister being given a trip down memory lane back to primary school's best corporal strokes. Our dear President unceremoniously relinquished his post to his second in command and with it, the status quo among his peers. Call it humility, bravery or whatever you may but the melancholy feeling created by a president of a free state binding himself in aristocratic chains is as humiliating as a clergyman soliciting sexual favours. It is a private issue which our genius legislators have made out to be public (despite his excellency privatizing the issue....kudos Mr. President) shamelessly. They are travelling to the Hague at their personal expense (we know all too well how accountably they utilise public revenue) to "support" their leader.

Then there is the growing trend of the intriguing South Africa's court cases. First there was Oscar Pistorious; the trigger-happy hopeless romantic fired four shots through a bathroom door to protect himself and his 'out of his league' girlfriend from "intruders" in the dead of the night. Anyway, a few calculated tears in front of the cameras and a wheelchair got him off the hook for his conditioned reflex.

Now South Africa's Got Talent - read court cases - have conjured up another classic in the Dewani case. Justice delayed is surely justice denied as the bisexual who enjoys humiliating sex whereby he is slapped in sacred places and racially abused looks to be getting away with killing the love of his life. Unlike the Pistorious case which was aired worldwide, this one will surely be hush-hush because the accused has no mental stability. How very morbid.

I would surely sell myself short if I failed to highlight on the whole ebola fiasco. Unfortunately, it has received more attention on twitter than in the medical field, because people are more interested in humour than healing societal tumours. Shame! It is all fun and games until it actually spreads to our miraa republic.

When all is said and done, the things that matter most get the least news coverage and vice versa. C'est la vie. Horny teenagers and nosy job-seeking internet browsers could care less about poverty, ignorance and disease. All is right with the world. After all, the world's a stage.