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This piece is about my pet project, the Reciprocal, Egalitarian, Manifested, Conscious, Co-Operative, Co-Creation, Concept, Organic, Organisation, System, which is designed espcially for communities suffering under corrupt Governments or Financial Systems.

I firmly believe that it is part of my mission because, if there is one thing that has been bugging me for completion, then it is this.

We are firstly going to deal with the way it deals with government and then we are going to deal with the way in which society can safeguard itself against being slung back into the old way of doing things.

Many people see the word “Egalitarian,” and immediately shy away, thinking of Socialism or Communism, but it has nohing to do with either.

While the concept is revolutionary, it is not promoting revolution at all, in fact it demands and promotes change through the polls by Democratic Principles.

Not top down, it calls for the introduction of the system by a slow process of change. Well as slowly or as fast as you would want it anyway.

I’ve always said that Democracy ends when they’ve got your cross. After that, YOU get Cross! So the first thing to do is eliminate that possibility.

We have to introduce a law that says that, if we can vote somebody in then we can vote him or her out! The only way to do that, is to appoint somebody who is prepared to introduce the Bill.

Let’s call it, “The Bill of Simple Removal.”

The Bill must simply say that, if a person is no longer considered as carrying out the wishes of the community to their satisfaction, then it is the right of the community to remove him or her from office by a simple majority and replace him or her with a suitable person.

We might have this happening a couple of times as people try to get in and then change their stance but they will soon realise that it is futile because of the Bill.

Once that is achieved then we can get into the business of creating the change we wish to see in the Government per se.

Of course if the change is created by a groundswell of support which has everybody in the country standing together, then it will all go much quicker and smoother.

People are already talking about a system such as this but they do not have the ides of how to put it into motion.

I must stress once again that my ideas are only suggetions for the change and I would insist that people are involved with/in the process.

So now we have the right person in the position. Let’s csll that person The Incumbent.

The incumbent has only one job.

The Incumbent has to put forward the list of needs that the community requires to be carried out in its area and monitor its progress and whether budget is being stuck to and tha monies are spent on the proper things in the proper way.

The list will contain ALL the shortfalls like roads, drainage, electricity, bridges, proper schools and teachers, proper police, community support programmes, housing, jobs and every other requirement a community has to have to live a full, meaningful and productive life from childhood to adulthood.

Who draws up the list?

The community will decide what they require as priority and the list will be handed to the incumbent. The Incumbent retains his or her copy and hands a copy of it to the Public Works Minister and the Director of Public Works.

TheMinister of Public Works is an elected Official like the Incumbent.

The Director of Public Works is an appointed Official who is suitably qualified to carry out the task of appointing a suitable company to carry out the work. This will be done by Tender and will be strictly adhered to by the company or never be used again by Government.

Tne Tender Process will be done completely openly for ALL to see.

Lets take the example of a school for a little village in Qwa Qwa.

We have the information about the lack of schools so we know how many children need schools in the area. Children also need to get to school because there is no public transport system. The roads to school go across a river which has no bridge so a bridge has to be built.

Where will all the funding for the projects come from?

“I think it is one of the philosophers of the French revolution who said, “Taxation without representation, is Tyranny.”

In concensus, either by a system of census or by including it in the ballot, we can ask each tax payer what he or she wants their taxes spent on. That information can then be fed into a computer (by area) for all to see.

We now know who wants what and where.

Companies will be included in this! Remember it is transparent and everybody will be able to see how much each company pays in taxes and what it wants it spent on.

We can either go the way of slowly doing each project for an area if and when we have the money, or we can introduce a sytem connected to the banks. Again, this sytem, if implemented, will have to be COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT!

I remember as a young person just recently starting to work, the Government of the time borrowed money from me and many other South Africans through a tax system.

What I suggest is something similar to that.

We can work through the banks by getting people to save money with banks with the Government borrowing it to complete tasks required by the people.

The banks should pay the normal interest rate and the Government can pay a 1% interest on top of that making it more attractive to people to invest and a further 1% to the banks.

It will ALL be transparent so the banks refusing the offer will be shown up.

We should IMMEDIATELY take a look at the system of charities which is a source of great fraud especially with the number of organisations formed by well to do people who form “TRUSTS” ostensibly for the poor and other charitabke organisations when in fact they are merely hiding the fact that they are siphoning off their money for the employment of family members who then pay a portion of it back to them.

Religious groups, especially those from foreign lands should be looked into as well and they should be stopped from receiving tax breaks especially the ones owning big buildings and of course ANY priest who owns or lives in a mansion and has expensive cars and an exhorbitant life style should immediately be taxed accordingly, preferably back-dated.

We will quickly have the money being spent on the rightful recipients, mainly the people of the country.

So let’s say we now have the money for the project.

The first people to look at for the actual construction should be from the community itself with strict supervision organised by the Director of Public Works.

To stop any chance of fraud we should have the proviso that in any case where the funds are mismanaged, the company and the officials of said company should be held jointly and severally responsible for recovery of ANY and all losses.

Jail terms should be a definite option right up to the Directors.

To ensure good work is carried out, the same should apply if any shoddy work is the cause of injury to ANYBODY.

In the case of major construction projects, like bridges, or roads, harbours and airports, which take a long time, we should have the option of extending the tenure of the encumbent until such time that the project in question is completed. The incumbent will receive normal remuneration until the end of the project.

Directors are different in that they are appointed and can occupy the position for as long as they wish or until such time that they are removed legally or retire or resign.

This is your Raconteur in Retrospect signing off for now. I’ll continue with this piece tomorrow.

And I’m back!

Hi its 12 02 2020 and this is the Brave New World in 2020 coming to you from the Raconteur in Retrospect.

We last spoke about Directors and how they are removed if needs be.

For those in The USA, I think it is imperative that we do away with the sytem allowing touts or people to canvas for various Industries to get legislation passed which is favourable to the industry they are promoting.

In fact at the onset it will probably be required that legislation is passed which strongly advocates against it.

The Raconteur in Retrospect, blah …….. blah …….. blah!

The following piece has nothing to do with the topic under discussion but I had to include it somewhere. I hope you all do not mind that much.

South Africn television’s writers works are still suffering from the effects of the past.

One of the earliest series I did was “Thetha Msawawa.” which dealt with children’s stories.

My role was that of a child molester but it did not start of that way. The story was about a “coloured” family that was regularly visited by a Black “Uncle Mali.”

When I was chosen for the part, I suddenly discovered that the roles had been switched and I was now the “Black uncle.”

The only Black guy was sudden;y the girl’s father. Everybody remarked about it especially since the name ‘Mali,’ was a distinctively Black name.

To crown it all, the scene where I molested the girl, won an Italian Award, which I never saw in fact I was not told about it and would not have known about it had it not been for the idiot who still owes me money for the job, blabbing about it to me.

The thing is, I got my satisfaction because one of my pet hates was finally highlighted.

That is however not the reason for this piece.

This evening on television I watched “Isidingo,” one of the long running more popular series.

There was a teenage daughter who lived with her mother and the mother’s live-in-lover (another lady). The daughter had been hinting at the fact that she was molested as a child on a regular basis.

“Could it be,” I hoped against hope that my other pet hate would finally be given air time on television.

Finally it came out this evening that the mother’s lover had been the one. The child provides proof and the lover is carted off by the police.

At last! Somebody had the balls to write something about this.

Now I’m waitng for the story about White father’s who have sex with their daughters and the story about Coloured fathers who have children with their daughters and their mothers shut up about it and the children eventually have to bear the brunt of the stigma because somebody knows and somebody who knows will always, eventually talk.

The thing that saddened me in the case of Thetha Msawawa, was not that I eventually played the role but that an attempt was made to hide the colour of the person even if it was fictitious.

Now this is definitely the Raconteur in Retrospect, signing off.