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THE ZONDO COMMISSION: MAKINGS OF CATASTROPHES

In classical Guillaume Faye parlance and writing, the time might have come for the knowledgeable in South Africa to abandon the unanimous conspiracy of silence they have volunteered themselves into, purely because of a fear of being ideationally and/or otherwise marginalized from the oligopolistic academic-political-economy-media complex that followed the aftermath of an undefined ‘9 wasted years narrative and/or theory’. Never in the few years of the franchise determined freedom, had its perceived dividends been so threatened by a convergence of political catastrophes that will impact on any hope for a socio-economic development trajectory than the revelations coming out of the state capture commission.  Towering the revelations has been the compromised trust in those that are in leadership. This trust deficit has now become the most foregrounded of variables to be managed in order to make South Africa a leadable Nation. ‘A series of catastrophe-creating lines are approaching o...