This celebrity lifestyle seems to be clutching the public by the collar. It’s as if they have a titanic leash they use to tow the whole world with, steering to whichever side they wish to go. Even the ‘legal system’ seems to be dancing to their tune. Does anyone know why?
Let us backtrack a little bit, before we scamper around grinning and spreading a buzz about Molema ‘Jub Jub’ Maarohanye’s innocence.
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| One of the Mini Coopers that were involved in the car crash that killed four kids. (image from the web) |
Wasn’t it one of the front page stories, or should I say, the story that made headlines in the year 2010 when Jub Jub was found caught up in a ‘Mini Cooper dicing’ muddle that resulted in the death of four school kids. We all saw the news I’m sure, and we heard about their slapdash stunt of two cars racing abreast in a two-way street. What did they have in mind? Surely they knew what they were doing, let alone not to know that it is illegal to race on public roads.
What about his confession that he made in court? What was he confessing to, if all of a sudden he is innocent of crashing into the school kids? “I have always been a born-again Christian, I just went on stage to revive my spiritual believe. I accepted Jesus the Lord as my saviour a long time ago, but wanted to revive my faith,” he said Jub Jub, taken from a Zaleb article (zalebs.howzit.msn.com/jub-jub-turns-leaf/) Where does all this come in?
What dampens my spirit the most is that after almost two full years, one of his friends now pops up out of the grey with a confession that, as a matter of fact, Jub Jub is not the one who crashed into the kids?
Do I smell something ‘fishy’?
Where on earth were you harboured with all this germane information to the trial? Maybe you are trying to tell the world the police didn’t do enough interrogation to get you to talk, or the court processes weren’t so conducive for you to come out of hiding and cough up the truth. I hate to say this but you need to go ‘fish’!
Should we believe the friend or judgement should come about through appropriate and fair court proceedings and proper investigation? Isn’t evidence from Accident Reconstruction Expert Renier Balt, which proves that the two were speeding and then they later ploughed into a group of school kids, good enough?
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| Onlookers, viewing the rubble caused by the crash ((image from the web) |
It’s either their lawyers are too good or we are just missing something in this whole confounding puzzle. Think of all the other kids who have had to suffer the same kind of treatment. We won’t even talk about those whose lives were cut short by a couple of drunk ‘scoundrels’ who thought money and alcohol was the ‘thing of the moment’ when they killed them. We would never know what the future held for them, but if it was done by the hand of men that they exist no more, then whoever did it should face the full wrath of law, unless ‘celebrities’ have patronizingly become a law unto themselves.
What I never understand is why evidence, especially if it involves controversial parties, has to be tampered with. According to Jub Jub, in a piece on News24.com, dated 2012-02-20, he now claims his urine samples were tampered with, and blames his friend, Themba Tshabalala, for the accident. Mr Jub Jub, I doubt anybody in their equitable senses would set off entertaining themselves by swapping, diluting or even worse, switching your samples with theirs or those of someone else. I thought these testing methods that scientists use were on point. You say they are wrong!?
Maybe next time I am stopped and asked to blow into a breathalyser and it points out that I have had ‘one too many’, I would gladly indicate to the officer that he resolutely ‘tampered’ with my ‘breathe’. We are certainly not five year olds, Mr, unless of course, and again I note, there is something we, as the public, are missing.
Now, to your fellow friend who has suddenly come to your rescue, I have nothing but a question for him. Where have you been all this time? Do you think the kind of abuse and trauma that your friends’ actions have brought to the affected families is a joke? Your excuse reads: "It was a difficult situation for me; I needed my space to deal with the situation.” In case you haven’t heard, four kids died in the car crash, and two badly injured. You needed space? You don’t need it now do you? Why not do the world a favour and continue roaming in the space that you needed than to come out and deposit half-truths into the already drained hearts of the affected families and friends.
Two of the survivors were left with eternal scars that won’t heal, Mr Vezi, unless you know of somebody who is going to fix the kid who is now brain-damaged because of the accident. I cannot say anything more than blame the ‘celebrity title’ that is hovering over peoples’ heads. Probably that is the reason South Africa cannot deal with ‘celebrities’ in the same kind of rationality and fairness that needs to prevail.
Maybe I need to give you an example of Jacob Humphreys. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail this week, and I quote, “for murdering 10 school pupils who died after his minibus was hit by a train in August 2010.” (http://www.timeslive.co.za/: 28 February, 2012)
If I am not mistaken, Humphrey’s accident occurred in the same year as your speeding stunt in 2010. I am not saying he is innocent. The ‘legal system’ has certainly ‘argued’ that he is ‘guilty’. Maybe if Humphreys wasn’t just a ‘taxi driver’. Maybe if he was a prominent celebrity who had a few albums to his name and a couple of record labels that have signed him up. Maybe if he had rubbed shoulders with the ‘who’s who’ in the world of entertainment and hung around places where patricians feature the most, he wouldn’t be facing the 20 years in jail that has been brought down on him, would he? Needless to say his licence was also cancelled with immediate effect. But in your case, I bet you still get to run around and maybe race your friends to the nearest shopping mall, don’t you?
I wonder what happened to fairness, equality and justice; because I am pretty sure it has ceased to exist. Money can surely buy you anything; from the luxurious houses that you dwell in, to the refined and exquisite cars that you drive. But two things money can never buy are life and a conscience. Once you lose these, you will never regain them again.
I hope the world will never lose its sense of right and wrong, good or bad, holy and evil.
Till next time....
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