No Regime Independent [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Language Units established in every Government
Department, no specialisation, no-one au fait re.
quality - Foreign Languages Section redundant,
bad work done at exorbitant fees since no-one is
left to check standards: this is how newly indepen-
dent countries run aground, changing for the sake
of change - to be able to say "I did it my way"

Closing teachers' colleges, abolishing in-house
training, sacking teachers - as the Country runs
down, hospitals close, babies die, they claim: ‘it's
the legacy we were left with' though the cause is
the government using public funds for personal
income through ignorance, no money amassed
under previous reign leaves the newly powerful

No other choice but to line their pockets through
financial transactions, incompetence spreads as
comrades-in-arms govern; the continent demands
help from the world since believing itself relieved
of responsibility by its colonial past; Ebola spreads
because no regime is independent in the REAL
sense of taking care of their own…

[18 September 2014]

[ORIGINAL: ]

Amazing new legislation requiring Language Units
in every Government & Provincial Department which
means no specialisation, nobody being able to judge
quality of work, the National Language Service esp.
Foreign Languages Section less required - guess
what, the Private Sector sharks can offer any kind
of low-standard work at exorbitant fees because

There is no ONE with specialised knowledge to query
quality of work, this is how newly independent countries
are run aground - changing everything just for the sake
of change - to be able to say 'I did it my way' - closing
teachers' colleges, abolishing in-house training, getting
rid of teachers just for the sake of sacking everyone who
worked under the previous regime - then as the

Country is running down, as hospitals close and babies
die, claiming it's the legacy they left us with, though it's
brought about by sheer incompetency, appointing only
comrades-in-arms without regard for ability; demanding
Africa be served by the rest of the world, not accepting
responsibility; who cares, the continent dying of Ebola
because no regime can be bothered to be independent

In the REAL sense of taking care of their own…

[18 September 2014]