Home affairs hostage-taker Kabelo Thibedi is apparently suffering from depression. He just received a five year jail sentence for losing his patience after failing for four years to get an identity book and taking some of the non-performing staff at that august institution hostage with a toy gun to make his point.
What a schmuck
According to recent reports Kabelo is a schmuck for not having simply bribed someone to get an identity document. According to a recent TV programme this is easier than applying through the normal channels.
Secondly he must have got the worst legal aid counsel available that day for his trial-Last month a bunch of murderers were fined twenty grand each and received a two-year sentence each for butchering someone-and Kabelo gets five years for complaining too loudly about poor service delivery. Double schmuck.
I'll bet Kabello wont get a nice comfortable personalised cell in a juicy juvenile facility like Mr Shabir Shaik who is guaranteed a supply of youngsters for his fifteen year sojourn behind bars in a private cell...or will it turn out to be fifteen months?. Nor will he be going home for partying weekends with his parliamentary buddies like Mr Yengeni whose four-year sentence has mysteriously morphed into a four-month sentence, soon to be converted to sentence under correctional supervision, whatever that implies.
No. More likely the poor innocent prick will find himself in a cell with 50 convicted rapists, murderers and general riff raff in the University of crime, where he will either learn to kill, rape and pillage or be fucked to death with the now traditional slow puncture. Treble schmuck Kabello.
At least his mother still loves him and will put flowers on the grave dug for him by the skivers at Home affairs.
Perhaps he should get smart and employ Winnie's lawyer and go for an appeal against his sentence-After all, the wonderful Winnie has been patiently awaiting the opportunity to appeal for about five years now against a minor sentence for committing some sixty criminal counts of fraud, deception and who remembers what.
On the other side of the planet the Dalai Lama has called for the Iraqi authorities to leaven their rage at Saddam Hussein and not kill the fellow for having murdered millions. Those of you who read my fictitious tale about Saddam on the run in a reworking of Bradbury's [I think] Great Lorenzo will remember that I doubted that this was the real Saddam: he was alleged to have had so many doubles.
Given the terrible legacy of incompetence demonstrated by the American authorities over the past years of the invasion it would not surprise me to discover thirty years from now that the real Saddam disappeared into Mexico City or somewhere similar and continues his auld ways in a dentists chair or some other place.
It hardly seems fair that Saddam, whoever it turns out to be, should get a quick death for murdering a few million people and destroying the lives of millions more and that poor schmuck Kabelo gets nailed five years and death by slow puncture for complaining too vociferously about a violation of his civil rights by the State.
Wasn't the struggle supposed to end in fair dibs for all?
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