I am afraid that what this demo epitomises is what can be best described as rocking chair philosophy. When sitting in a rocking chair, one tends to do the most obvious thing, that is to rock. While rocking clearly you are doing something but also equally clearly you are going nowhere - fast. And so it is the millions that have fled that blighted land instead of standing up and being counted would rather mill about the streets of London town, in the case of some make phone calls to insignificant officials back home, others yet still come to websites such as this to hurl abuse, make claims and counterclaims, post vitriol and all manner of vituperative and repugnant ideas and ideals, others yet still conglomerate around telephone conferences and spawn organisations such as the MPC (Mthwakazi People in Cyberspace perhaps?) Umhlahlo weSizwe sikaMthwakazi all toothless and paper tigers because all these things give a sense of doing something (rocking) in the face of overwhelming impotence. In this august site we have learnt about irredentity, we have had fierce yet informative debates about secession and federalism, a clown or a thug ( I'm not sure which) has recently put up post about "revisiting self determination and international law" All rocking chair moments - doing something but going nowhere fast. Mthwakazi in general and in the diaspora in particular has had many rocking chair moments and on the evidence of what we read above more are sure to follow.