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THE SYMPTOMS BESPEAK THE DISORDER<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is characterized by a standing pattern of grandiosity and a complete lack of empathy for others. People with this disorder often display, inter alia, disdainful or patronizing attitudes and have a great sense of self-importance, believe that they are \u201cspecial\u201d and deserving, have a very strong sense of entitlement, are exploitive of others, and regularly show arrogant and haughty behavior.<\/span><\/i> (From PsychCentral.com\/disorders.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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You may insist on having \u201cthe best\u201d of everything \u2013 the best car, the best athletic club, the best social circle. But underneath this behavior often lies a fragile self-esteem. You have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have a sense of secret shame and humiliation. In order to make yourself feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and efforts to belittle the other person to make yourself feel better. (<\/span><\/i>From mayoclinic.com\/health\/narcissistic-personality-disorder)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

 At the end of 2012, most South Africans find themselves beset with a sense of trepidation. Except for an elite few from the ruling classes, the ANC\u2019s revolutionary promises have withered into a vortex of failure and sour disappointment. We are witnessing a bizarre behavioral paradigm where accountability and its corollaries shame, guilt and remorse, are virtually non-existent. An example of this is that despite the avalanche of damning information concerning the actions of the State President, including his profligacy, his evasiveness regarding the cost of his residential compound, his efforts – so far successful   – to thwart the judicial process concerning 783 charges of corruption against him, and his complete and public inability to exert any control over the country\u2019s decline in virtually all areas of public governance, he blithely sets himself up for another four years of \u201cgovernance\u201d and is supported by his party, the ANC, and millions of hapless voters who are told that without Zuma, their social welfare payments will disappear and that the country will \u201cgo back to apartheid\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

 The president\u2019s behavior and the conduct of many at all levels of our society is pure narcissism. A \u201cnarcissistic personality disorder\u201d (NPD) has become a norm within many sectors in South Africa. PsychCentral.com says that a person can be \u201cdiagnosed\u201d with NPD if he meets just five of the dozen or so symptoms of this disorder. The word \u201cdiagnosed\u201d alludes to the fact that NPD borders on being a psychiatric disorder. The SA President\u2019s behavior and that of his compatriots, his followers, his employees in government and many in civil society slot neatly into many of the NPD categories, giving rise to the situation where NPD could be classed as a national disorder. It is more prevalent in males than in females, and the causes, according to PsychCentral.com, can possibly be due to biological and genetic factors, as well as social and psychological factors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A COMMON DISORDER<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The \u201cgrandiose sense of self importance\u201d is amplified by PsychCentral.com as \u201ca person who exaggerates achievements and talents, and expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements\u201d. Our State President is a fitting candidate. Critics are amazed at his equanimity under criticism, his talent for avoiding culpability, and his spirited defence of the indefensible. City Press <\/i>calls it \u201cthe new denialism\u201d. Everyone is to blame for South Africa\u2019s slide into chaos except Mr. Zuma and the ANC.<\/span><\/p>\n

 \u201cA man with as thick a skin as Zuma and such a heightened sense of self-preservation just forges on shamelessly\u201d says Richard Calland of the Main & Guardian (9.11.12). <\/i>South Africa is reaching the point of what commentator Pierre de Vos calls \u201coutrage fatigue\u201d. It doesn\u2019t matter what is thrown up in the wash, what outrages are committed, what criticism is levelled, or what the country suffers because of his behavior, Zuma is oblivious, except where his power and wealth are affected. He and his friends and colleagues simply dismiss criticism as racism, or \u201cplaying politics\u201d or they give \u201cstern warnings\u201d to those who dare question this ludicrous conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n

 The president recently told traditional leaders he supported the Traditional Courts Bill and warned them not to allow themselves to be subjected to \u201cthe white man\u2019s law\u201d. He is disingenuous \u2013 he turned what was a debate about specific clauses that were unconstitutional into racial abuse. (Zuma however is quite at ease enjoying other aspects of \u201cthe white man\u2019s\u201d system).<\/span><\/p>\n

 He rails against criticism. Any black who ventures to criticize him \u201cis too big for his boots, or \u201ca clever black who reads newspapers\u201d. He said in early November that \u201cunemployment in South Africa is deeply structural and that joblessness had a history in South Africa\u201d. Further, it cannot be that inequality is growing, he declared, because he \u201chas given grants to more than 15 million people\u201d. \u201cThe clever people are lying\u201d he retorted recently in response to some bad press, and to say the ANC is corrupt \u201cis untrue\u201d. He portrays himself as \u201ca victim of political conspiracies\u201d, declares City Press.<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

 Addressing the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Association recently, Mr. Zuma said the Marikana massacre was a \u201cmishap\u201d, that there was no crisis in the mining sector, and he shouldn\u2019t be blamed for \u201cthe past injustices of colonialism, apartheid and exploitation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

 NPD symptoms are widespread. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has ignored a Supreme Court of Appeal order to hand over to the Democratic Party tape transcripts allegedly implicating the President in the afore-mentioned 783 cases of fraud. This contempt of a court ruling would be unheard of in any normal country. But the NPA has taken its cue from the President and others within the ruling structure who have such a sense of entitlement that they have \u201cunreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with their expectations\u201d, according to the definition of another NPD symptom. In other words, the ruling clique is above the law.<\/span><\/p>\n

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LAND REFORM<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 In a rambling speech at a recent African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) dinner, President Zuma reeled off the failures of his government\u2019s land reform program without apparently recognizing his own government\u2019s shortcomings. He saw the situation in a different light: while declaring that commercial agriculture produced 90% of South Africa\u2019s food, he then declared his government\u2019s National Development Plan contained \u201ca long term solution to the country\u2019s food security\u201d. But the obvious long term solution to South Africa\u2019s food security is to leave the commercial farming sector alone to produce this 90% of the country\u2019s sustenance. There is no need for another plan, another turn-around strategy or ten point program, another summit or another gala dinner to discuss how to maintain food security. We already have it, albeit that it depends on many elements outside the control of commercial agriculture. This self-important pomposity, these endless speeches about what we \u201cneed\u201d to do feeds the self-delusion that whatever he says is important, even though in reality it isn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

 Under the ANC government, South Africa\u2019s water resources have been, in many instances, polluted beyond redress. Yet the Department of Water Affairs continues to place full page employment ads in the national press for highly technical positions which are rarely filled due to the government\u2019s own Employment Equity policy which virtually rules out white applications for these specialized positions. This endless circle of absurdity goes on and on, yet government officials and cabinet cannot see the folly of their policies. This self-delusion has become inimical to South Africa\u2019s future survival.<\/span><\/p>\n

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PROFESSOR JONATHAN JANSEN<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 University of the Free State\u2019s Professor Jonathan Jansen has highlighted a very serious consequence of the ruling establishment\u2019s narcissistic tendencies, although he doesn\u2019t define them as such. Bewailing the state of South African education at a recent function, Professor Jansen says that the value of education has lost all meaning for, inter alia, rural communities, and that there is a \u201cvisible lack of connection between education and economic well-being\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, who needs to go to school when a poorly-educated president can build a home for himself at Nkandla for R240 million of state money with impunity, and where he, his fellow cabinet members, officials, municipal counsellors and anyone else who can get away with it can plunder the country with a misguided sense of entitlement and with no shame. (The president says comments about his lavish home are an \u201cexaggeration\u201d.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Jansen says there is no attempt to infiltrate logic or debate into the public sphere. Displaying wealth and ostentation only fires the masses to want the same. \u201cThey want the material things without having to build towards such attainment via education and training.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NPD trickles down. South Africa\u2019s civil servants (many of whom are neither civil nor serve) are the recipients of one of the most expensive wage bills in the world. According to the National Treasury, these bureaucrats are paid 11,5% of the country\u2019s Gross Domestic Product. (The Russian Federation spends 3,7%, Brazil spends 4,8%, Japan spends 6,2%, with only the US, the UK and a few other developed countries spending a little more than South Africa.)<\/span><\/p>\n

 But who hasn\u2019t experienced the surly hospital nurses, the striking and absentee school teachers, the ministerial spokesperson who \u201ccannot be reached for comment\u201d, the phones in government, provincial and municipal offices that ring and ring forever, unanswered by those who don\u2019t give a fig about the public. This arrogance and incompetence is only exceeded by the concomitant sense of entitlement. These bureaucrats believe they deserve these jobs, whether qualified or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

 NPD trickles down further. The taxi drivers who hog the roads, who stop arbitrarily and halt long lines of traffic; the traffic policemen who are simply not on point duty when traffic lights fail; the trade unions\u2019 striking masses who \u201cdeserve\u201d a job, who trash their employers\u2019 property and assault those who want to work. No wonder South Africa is sliding into a pit. These character traits are palpable symptoms of NPD.<\/span><\/p>\n

 Compare this syndrome to the work ethic found in most developed countries. The South East Asian tiger economies value dedication, loyalty, hard graft and job satisfaction, the antithesis of the characteristics that are identified with many South Africans.<\/span><\/p>\n

The TV program Undercover Boss<\/i> which is franchised in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia is significantly not produced in South Africa, also an English-speaking country. This program follows a CEO who works undercover in his company, and virtually without exception, he finds the workers he deals with are dedicated, loyal, hard working and ambitious. They do not moan about their pay, they are not heavily unionized, and they work under all sorts of difficult conditions, for long hours without complaint, while many of them have private domestic and financial problems. This is why these countries are progressive, and why South Africa will never be able to compete. South African Affirmative Action has replaced the work ethic with, in many cases, the drones, the complainers and the obstructionists.<\/span><\/p>\n

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ROTTEN BEHAVIOUR<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 Journalist Bryan Rostron has sized up President Zuma and the ANC most succinctly! \u201cAwareness of corruption implies the possibility of a sense of shame or, at least, of public revulsion. It is a far more critical matter when people don\u2019t even know their rotten behavior is dishonest, when they think of it as either their due or an acceptable custom\u201d. (Business Day 2.11.12)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 During President Zuma\u2019s tenure, we have witnessed a carnival of corruption, says Rostron. Significantly, presidential inaction or vacillation in the face of the looting and squandering of public money could lead to a lawyer arguing one day that President Zuma and certain members of his family suffer from \u201ca medical syndrome: the apparent inability to distinguish between his and other people\u2019s money\u201d. It is a \u201ccompulsive disorder\u201d says Rostron.<\/span><\/p>\n

This brilliant article declares that corruption is now \u201cpart of the social fabric\u201d, and he singles out the baffled tones of departmental spokesmen when questioned about some egregious wasteful expenditure or downright fraud. \u201cThey can seem genuinely puzzled about what the interviewer is going on about\u201d, says Rostron. He cites the \u201ccavalier attitude\u201d and the lack of a sense of shame that permeates the country\u2019s political and administrative structures.<\/span><\/p>\n

 Killing the messenger is a classic symptom. Public Service Minister Lindiwe Sisulu sees herself as so important that she resents Parliamentary questions and doesn\u2019t even answer some of them. The DA\u2019s David Maynier\u2019s insistence that she answer for her large expenditure on more than 200 flights in a luxury Gulfstream jet between Pretoria and Cape Town (at R200 000 a trip) was met with invective by Sisulu in Parliament. When pressed to account for herself (as a public servant), she said Mr. Maynier\u2019s claims were \u201chogwash and balderdash\u201d and that he should \u201ctake his flea-infested body and sit down\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

 Thus we return to the beginning of our Bulletin \u2013 the psychological disorder of narcissism. How will South Africa handle this? It is evident in many parts of Africa, with Zimbabwe\u2019s Robert Mugabe a prime example.<\/span><\/p>\n

 American black journalist Keith Richburg says in his book Out of America \u2013 A black man confronts Africa (1998)<\/i> that Africa plays on the white guilt of aid donors; that knowing the right person is an easy way to attain wealth; and how eventually those who came to Africa to \u201chelp\u201d simply got tired of the whole morass and left the continent forever. Problems in Africa are not self-generated, he often heard: they were someone else\u2019s fault \u2013 colonialism, the evils of the Western exploiters, and so on. He called Africa \u201ca senseless continent\u201d. In Africa, he declared, \u201cthe good guys don\u2019t win\u201d. The Big Men rule the roost \u2013 arrogant, extravagant, enjoying the fruits of someone else\u2019s hard work. The promise of democracy has faded, he says, and \u201cheavily flawed elections are conducted mainly to ratify the status quo\u201d. Africa\u2019s failings are hidden behind \u201ca veil of excuses\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

 While many have left the continent in disgust, millions of South Africans of all colours call this country home. They have to live with the ANC\u2019s denialism, corruption and public theft. What, then, to do with the ANC elephant in the room? This problem should focus our minds. They surely cannot last forever, and we should do everything to make this wish a reality.is speech is full of what \u201cneeds\u201d to be done, and insteadHis<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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