GULUVA is not a xenophobe - some of his best mates are foreigners - but he is very uneasy; very, very uneasy.
This feeling of anxiety emanates from the speed and frequency with which hot Chinese money seems to be flowing into Mzansi and the long-term effects this will have on the country.
If it is not Duduzane Zuma, Lazarus Zim and the controversial Gupta family injecting billions of Chinese yuan into the building of rail infrastructure and a steel manufacturing plant in Mzansi with the help of their Chinese connections, it is Khulubuse Zuma and Zondwa Mandela who borrow lots of it to try to resuscitate their flagging fortunes at Aurora Gold Mine in Ekurhuleni.
Such moves can only be good for Mzansi's economy, Guluva hears you say. Yes, that's perfectly true. But as you very well know, there's no free lunch in the business environment anywhere in the world.
With the enormous influence China already exerts on Mzansi, many people say it is just a matter of time before the country effectively becomes a Chinese colony.
Already even Guluva's eight-year-old son, who apparently enjoyed taking part in China Day activities at his school recently, can see the route we are taking.
On a recent visit to the China City retail market in the heart of Jozi with his mother in search of bargains, the inquisitive young man was amazed to see so many Chinese nationals in one place at the same time.
He turned to his mother and asked, curiously: "Mummy, are we now in Chinaland?"
Dying of boredom
Moving to another matter of critical national interest, can anyone tell Guluva what a minister of planning does?
Seriously, is being a planning minister a real job?
Guluva has to ask these questions because our planning minister, Trevor Manuel, seems to have too much time on his hands ever since his appointment a few months ago of high-profile members of the planning commission who have been charged with the task of planning for Mzansi up to 50 years into the future.
But instead of dying of boredom he has found other things to do and exercise his mind with.
A couple of days ago he found time to be next to his wife, Absa chief executive Maria Ramos, at a function where the banking group announced its sponsorship of the Springbok jersey.
A few days later he was dispatched to Western Cape by Ain't Seen Nothing, where his job was to triumphantly raise the hand of the winner of the party's provincial elections, Marius Fransman.
At the weekend he pitched up at the Department of Basic Education's awards ceremony, where he was even given time to scold errant teachers.
In between these engagements, which clearly had nothing to do with planning for the future, he also found time to write a letter or two to newspaper editors in which he whinged and whined about this or the other issue.
It's strange that both the Machine Gun Man and the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's deployment committee have still not noticed that Manuel is pining to be assigned a real job.
E-mail Guluva on: thatha.guluva@gmail.com
No such thing as a free lunch
GULUVA is not a xenophobe - some of his best mates are foreigners - but he is very uneasy; very, very uneasy.
This feeling of anxiety emanates from the speed and frequency with which hot Chinese money seems to be flowing into Mzansi and the long-term effects this will have on the country.
If it is not Duduzane Zuma, Lazarus Zim and the controversial Gupta family injecting billions of Chinese yuan into the building of rail infrastructure and a steel manufacturing plant in Mzansi with the help of their Chinese connections, it is Khulubuse Zuma and Zondwa Mandela who borrow lots of it to try to resuscitate their flagging fortunes at Aurora Gold Mine in Ekurhuleni.
Such moves can only be good for Mzansi's economy, Guluva hears you say. Yes, that's perfectly true. But as you very well know, there's no free lunch in the business environment anywhere in the world.
With the enormous influence China already exerts on Mzansi, many people say it is just a matter of time before the country effectively becomes a Chinese colony.
Already even Guluva's eight-year-old son, who apparently enjoyed taking part in China Day activities at his school recently, can see the route we are taking.
On a recent visit to the China City retail market in the heart of Jozi with his mother in search of bargains, the inquisitive young man was amazed to see so many Chinese nationals in one place at the same time.
He turned to his mother and asked, curiously: "Mummy, are we now in Chinaland?"
Dying of boredom
Moving to another matter of critical national interest, can anyone tell Guluva what a minister of planning does?
Seriously, is being a planning minister a real job?
Guluva has to ask these questions because our planning minister, Trevor Manuel, seems to have too much time on his hands ever since his appointment a few months ago of high-profile members of the planning commission who have been charged with the task of planning for Mzansi up to 50 years into the future.
But instead of dying of boredom he has found other things to do and exercise his mind with.
A couple of days ago he found time to be next to his wife, Absa chief executive Maria Ramos, at a function where the banking group announced its sponsorship of the Springbok jersey.
A few days later he was dispatched to Western Cape by Ain't Seen Nothing, where his job was to triumphantly raise the hand of the winner of the party's provincial elections, Marius Fransman.
At the weekend he pitched up at the Department of Basic Education's awards ceremony, where he was even given time to scold errant teachers.
In between these engagements, which clearly had nothing to do with planning for the future, he also found time to write a letter or two to newspaper editors in which he whinged and whined about this or the other issue.
It's strange that both the Machine Gun Man and the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's deployment committee have still not noticed that Manuel is pining to be assigned a real job.
E-mail Guluva on: thatha.guluva@gmail.com
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