The Parkside men in blue were noth­ing but a bunch of incompetent misfits who should all be fired, so continued the tirade.

In 1886, the year in which the Rand mines were discovered, President Kruger was by no means a popular man even among his own followers; as an administrator of internal affairs he had shown himself grossly incompetent, and it was only the specious success of his negotiations with the British government which had retained him any measure of support.

Moylan, however, proved incompetent, and Mifflin resumed the office on the 1st of October.

But their kings were incompetent, their chiefs jealous and their tribes divided.

His incompetent leadership made it necessary for the rebels to invoke the help of France.