Well, despite our vigorous denials and protestations, the fact is that the ANC is skilfully and intentionally creating a climate of uncertainty and fear with JM acting as the court jester in a contrived leadership vacuum. Luthuli House is playing duplicitous psychological mind games, baiting and provoking minorities, only to retreat and calm frayed nerves with reassuring press statements. A continuous cycle. Tried and tested revolutionary tactics to demoralise and wear the "enemy" down whilst simultaneously covering its service delivery failures. Why is the ANC appealing the banning of "Shoot the Boer"? SA spent R33bn to host a SWC it can ill afford (and then had to approach the World Bank cap in hand for a R28bn loan to build Medupi - which will earn the ANC R1bn!) to change perceptions about the continent and the country and then scores an apparent own goal with the atrocious coverage it is now receiving on the eve of the event? What is the agenda - preparing for a new and stepped up phase of the NDR? I suppose once you cut through the waffle about probabilities and possibilities and remove the veneer of uninformed banter, the acid test of sincerity is whether one has a purple passport as backup..just in case a fate similar to the BBC cameraman befalls one? And as for JM or a similar character becoming a future president - well, check the demographics - 20m (40%) of SA's citizens are 19 years and younger - and mostly poorly educated owing to the faltering system. Ultimately, everyone has to decide for him/herself what call to make with the facts at hand. After all, we do it in the market all the time.