Afrika Day is yet to know its dawn. The poor, seldom listened to or seen to matter, are on the verge of giving up on their hopeless dreams due for burial to waiting yawning graves to swallow to final rest that found no peace in their lifetimes.
 
When Viola Davis said ‘when you are poor no one sees you, you are invisible’, it seemed a fleeting moment of an award acceptance speech of a film star. 
 
Not only are the struggling masses not seen, but so too are their voices not heard.
 
Power bows to worship money. Power is attentive to money’s best wishes as its commands to defer to, abide with and be responsively alert to yield in favour of the right of way business indecent speed. Business cannot wait. 
 
The will of the people can wait for them. For the people, the wheels of government are fated to turn slow, if at all, and not without struggle, demands and casualties. 
 
But one billionaire, known as the richest in the world, without a struggle or tearing effort, has a carpet rolled out shoot up as an apex priority of concern, to be listened to.
 
Albeit silent in the room, the mere presence of billionaire’s company, Starlink spoke for itself as an esteemed guest of the White House. 
 
The meeting is at the Oval Office. Starlink looms large as a priority agenda item, than the mixed dough of contrived derogatory claims of white genocide meets the eye. 
 
The cake being baked in the oven of the two Presidents of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa and the United States Donald Trump, was the trigger pitch for Starlink’s grand entrance to SA’s communication technology market.

Crime was the question accentuated as the top most SA problem but sadly seen through white superiority lens. Starlink was the answer punted. The cherry on top of this baking cake, was the icing by attendance of golfing stars invited as witnesses to add weight to homeboy’s Starlink’s wishes to be promptly responded to as the answer to SA’s hard-nut-to-crack crime problem. 
 
To great expectations for Startlink anticipated grand entrance, could it have been a slip of a tongue for Ramaphosa to have been heard saying a way will be found? In SA’s reputedly richest man Johan Rupert’s ears, also present in the Oval Office, Ramaphosa’s intimation to finding a plan would equate to ‘’n boer maak ‘n plan” in the Afrikaans language.
 
The promptness with which the gazette came, and Communication Minister Solly Malatsi acted, was just a mere coincidence.
 
The non-comprehending participant in the baking of Starlink’ cake, for space in the communications technology bakery, also in the Oval Office, must have been DA leader John Steenhuisen. In his usually assured mistaken moonshot pact belief that this meeting was primarily about the ‘government of national unity’ concerns back home, Steenhuisen took to his long standing script of keeping the so-called barbarians EFF and MK Party at the gate. 

Steenhuisen lunged to make it known that by the DA entering an alliance with ANC, the aim was to prevent Julius Malema’s EFF and Jacob Zuma’s MK Party from entering the Union Buildings. The two parties, EFF and MK Party, according to Steenhuisen, are hand and glove in the chaos presentation that Trump had turned lights low to show at the Oval Office in a meeting with Ramaphosa. 
 
The killings of blacks on white farms did not feature as fact to Steenhuisen’s memory bag for mention at the meeting.

A white farmer, Zachariah Olivier, facing charges for the murder of two black women, Kudzani Ndlovu and Maria Makgato, whose remains were tossed in a pigsty, found no passage to be a reality check to Trump’s presentation to Ramaphosa on farm killings.
 
These are no facts to worry white investors and deal-driven politicians about for retention of their confidence. Impressing promptness in the workings of business, to explore new markets soonest, is what the Ramaphosa and Trump meeting was about. 
 
Hardly a pretentious mention of the struggling majority back home. By standing elitist convention, the masses have, are and should wait, because they can, for the land question will surge the radar screen to be answered. Rome was not built overnight. But billionaires and businesses should be served with classic speed. The pursuit of their return on investment has no time to waste due to regulatory inconveniences still embroiled in the unfinished business of the liberation project. 
 
For the masses, speedy response from the government is a commodity too expensive for them to buy. Theirs is obstinate process requiring merry go round rigmarole requests, for submission, consultations, enquiries, for reiteration of known facts to be furnished, and upon receipt of undeniable collated evidence, of giving the people what they want, investors suddenly get horrified at government responding with similar speed to citizens to meet citizens wishes. It does not make business sense, it seems. 
 
The power money commands is felt personally to globally. One never gets used to it though. The sway of it never ceases to amaze, each time one awakens to it throwing its weight to boss and toss around politics and those making a living from politics.
 
Investors are not motivated to do business in liberated countries. People-related matters are better redirected to periodic elections, in which billionaires insert their itchy fingers to influence preferred outcomes that ‘the markets’ would be delighted with. 
 
Billionaires hate the burden of the unpredictability that goes with elections to can leave them alone.

The darkest hour is sadly still with us, and yet to give way to the much anticipated true dawn unencumbered by oligarchs’ itchy fingers to forever tilt electoral scales to add desired predictability to preferred election outcomes.

Oupa Ngwenya is a writer and corporate strategist. He writes in his personal capacity.