Digital Prime Ministers

Politicians are being stubborn, like a frog that sneaked into the house and refuses to leave, to quote a Zulu proverb, (ixoxo alifuni ukuphum’endlini).

The writing is on the wall that heads of states should be digital men and women. We live, work and eat digital, therefore prime ministers and presidents must be digital lords, not like Elon Musk laughing at Twitter, but people with know-how. Experts that can explain 8 July ‘22 ,when most of Canada came to a standstill because thieves hacked Rogers, one of the wireless service providers.

Heads of government must be digital spiders because digital is the new food, and there is nothing new about it. Since the beginning of time, rulers were men who controlled food production because they owned the source, land. British aristocracy is one example.

Middle East is another. War against Iran, the murder of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is about another food, oil. OPEC has it, U.S. wants it. In Religious Studies at school, we were taught that men around Jesus were fishermen.

Digital is the new food. When politicians finally admit that heads of government must be digital spiders, billionaires will try and buy the web, through equity markets and other theft schemes.

That will not work. A digital prime minister or president must be hands on. If he gets an alert at midnight that Rogers or any other digital food bank has been compromised, he should not call the digital minister. He must open his laptop and fix it.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.