MY FRIEND says this is the year of the dog named Kganyapa.

In African mythology, kganyapa invokes danger and destruction. Often when RDP houses have been blown away by mild winds, the local ANC representative has given the kganyapa explanation, which goes like this: the boys went to the river and stole the eggs of kganyapa and ate them, now the monster is angry.

We need to brace ourselves for some hectic political and economic events. Mangaung sowed the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind.

I shall never understand why the ANC decided to be bold in its disregard of the interests of the nation. They no longer hide their disdain for the feelings of those whom they rule.

The Nkandla scandal is one thing, but to promote to deputy president a man who has just recently called upon the police to take strong action against workers, whichresulted in a massacre, is quite a bold move.

South Africa is still reeling from the events of last year. We are a traumatised nation, mostly in denial of the reality of the abuse we suffer at the hands of the political class from both the ANC and the DA.

We shall forever remember Marikana, followed by Lenasia and De Doorns. The Cape Town townships are an internal inferno.

We must prepare ourselves for more hurricanes that will be bigger than the matric result scandal that we now celebrate as success. We are a nation that prides itself with setting the pass rate at 30%. If truth be told, we know whose children are being robbed of sound education. It's not the children of politicians and public servants. Theirs are part of the private schooling system in which a 80% university entrance pass is required.

The half a million black children we lose each 12 years of schooling will come back as angry as kganyapa and we must not be surprised at the destruction they will leave behind.

Those who lead meaningless lives are not known to respect the lives of other people.

Those who celebrate the demise of Julius Malema are involved in acts of self-deception. The floods of the discontented are still to hit us like a tsunami.

Tinkering around the edges as we have seen in the past 19 years, instead of bold measures to end apartheid and colonialism, will ensure social rupture. The ANC has gone ostrich on "nationalisation". They have actually banned the word from their documents. That's the classical head in the sand stunt - if we don't say it, it doesn't exist.

I have news for the ANC. The demands for transformation are going nowhere until we confront the apartheid economy head-on.

One of the things to watch this year is the return of the white liberals. Steve Biko cautioned about how they meddle in black affairs. Today, the white liberal starts with an empty apology for apartheid and then castigates other whites for not being nice to blacks. The effect of it is white domination of public discourse, which doesn't end racism, but instead preserves white power.

White on white conflicts are bad for black people. Remember the Anglo-Boer war? Who suffered at the end?

I hope we all survive the year of kganyapa.