South Africa's own Game of Thrones

Our ruling party politics is a little like Game of Thrones at the moment. We have the evil Guptas from India (almost as brutal as the Lannisters in their ability to manipulate their way into government and pretty much own the throne). You have Bell Pottinger, which is a PR agency in the UK, who are as crooked as Little Finger and you have a few ANC MPs, who are in the minority, trying to lead a rebellion with the help of the opposition parties.

Unfortunately, the remaining majority of MPs are happy with the corruption and looting of our sitting president - who would probably behave like Joffrey if he thought that he would literally get away with murder. (Just a little back story - he has gotten away with rape and there are 783 counts of treason, fraud and corruption etc. that have been laid against him, but he will probably get away with)

There is a cache of thousands of emails that have been made public that show the extent of the Gupta state capture - in fact, pretty much every state enterprise has an element of the Gupta/Zuma sticky fingerprints on it. Why has nothing happened? Because the police and National Prosecuting Authority also seem to be captured...along with many of our ministers.

In the mean time, our poor lack housing and decent health care and instead of trying to get the money back from the looting, white monopoly capital are being blamed.

I remain ever hopeful that the long night will end soon and our amazing rainbow nation will be what we all collectively know if can be.