DEADPAN DAVIES & BBC's HARDTALKING SACKUR

To many viewers Minister Rob Davies must have showed signs of a "deer in headlights" syndrome when aggressively interviewed by BBC's Hardtalk anchor Stephen Sackur. Davies displayed classic traits of transient lack of motor reactions. To those of us who are used to annoyingly deadpan ramblings of ANC government ministers, it was no surprise. Sackur, on the other hand, was clearly taken aback, incredulous, and bemused at the minister's robotic responses couched in ANC collective jargon. Sackur is to be excused for not knowing the ANC's political structure embedded in group collectivism. Individuality is an anathema to the functioning of the collective. The collective comprises a hive-minded group mentality with a loss of individual identity. Watch a group of bees as they coalesce to move as a committed unit to prevent splitting up the hive and losing the queen. Is it any different from the ANC executive coalescing around Zuma, of which Davies is one of the more prominent coalescing comrades? One must conclude that Davies televised performance was well received by his comrades. Not so by international viewers as the cringe factor has yet to dissipate.