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PEACOCKS AND POLITICS

PEACOCKS AND POLITICS

August 2018 · 2 min read

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To escape the alarming political situation in South Africa....no, wait...To escape the constant alarming news alerts that feed through to my husband's cell phone, we took an impulsive trip into town.

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Being farmers we usually only get to town once a week, or possibly every second week. So you can be sure an unplanned trip still comes with a very long list of errands. One of the stops was on the way in to speak to the tractor mechanic. He lives on the family farm of friends of ours, they are eighth generation farmers. Their peacocks have been here far more generations than that!

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Peacocks dose on the tractors. Peacocks perch in the trees way above the roof tops. Peacocks saunter through the vineyards - it is the famous Cape wine route after all. These magnificent creatures range around the homesteads and have done so for years. They are really beautiful - until they open their mouths. I guess it is a lot like a politician. All fanfare but a lot of noise coming out of their mouths.

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Of course the scary thing about the current crisis in South Africa is that the corrupt government is speaking only death over a large percentage of the population. They are stirring up a radical element who have only murderous intentions. This is evident by the increasing death of farmers through "land grabs".

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It is sad to think that this could happen here. Farmers for eight generations. This means their forefathers were British and Dutch settlers. Knowing he callous intentions of the rabble the reality is that should they set they come here, not only will the people be killed by so also will these beautiful Peacocks.

Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".

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