Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." – Lord Acton 1887.

Mr Zuma has a new ride? Oh no, sorry its the Green Goblin.

 If anyone knows Marvel Comics, then you’d be familiar with Spiderman and his illustrious career as a crime fighter.  He has come up against a few real baddies in his day, the Green Goblin being the ultimate. The good thing watching these flicks are is that we always know that good triumphs over evil.

More often than not the villains were good and possessed great strength but it’s that strength i.e. their genius that eventually turned into greed. In their desire for more power, their greatest strength became their greatest weakness. 

Sound familiar? It is greed that is tearing the fabric of South African society to shreds. All we need to do is look at our president who has become so intoxicated on his own (dictatorial) rule he considers it his right to nullify an artist’s freedom and expression of speech.

South Africa is fraught with baddies, many of whom would put Spiderman’s enemies to shame. Rabobi, oh Rabobi, where art though? We need you. A word of advice, your first stop may need to be the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

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