The Budget
for 2015 sets aside an amount of R2 billion for the provision of security for
Jacob Zuma and his henchmen. There are,
of course, hidden amounts to be added to this total, amounts that come out of
other Budgets for the support of this man, such as the hidden sums that were
paid to build his mansion, and the chances are that they will never be aired
for public scrutiny, but the bare fact that this amount has risen from R376
million in just ten years must raise the hairs on the back of the neck of any
perceptive observer.
The simple fact
is that Zuma and his coterie of cronies in the top ranks of the ANC are
building a private force, answerable to no-one but them, a hidden army within
the Republic that, there can now no longer be doubt, is there to ensure that
Zuma and the ANC will hold onto power even in the face of an overwhelming loss
at the ballots. There is no possibility
that Zuma will willingly hand over the reins of Government to any Party or
coalition that is inimical to him. An
unbiased investigation into his actions will certainly ensue, and the
likelihood is that Zuma will have to explain many things that he and his Party
are now able to dodge, which they do with ease by misusing the Rules of
Parliament, by ensuring that loyal members occupy any position of importance in
Government, and by failing to meet the most basic requirement of any democracy
simply by not appearing in Parliament and, on the rare occasions that he and
his cronies do, by dodging the direct questions with the willing assistance of
a biased Speaker, another person who consistently fails to ensure that the
Executive answer questions in Parliament, both honestly and completely. Mbeki was the man who started the trend of
ensuring that his and his Party’s actions are shielded from Parliamentary
scrutiny during the Arms Scandal, but Zuma has acquired a degree of
professionalism in this that is unparalleled throughput the civilized world.
The ‘security
forces’ owing loyalty to Zuma, to the exclusion of the public, now number 6 336,
a very large number by any comparison, given, particularly, the claim made by
the ANC that the great majority of the voters ‘love the ANC and Zuma’. Add to that the fact that the Police have
shown no indication of any desire to be on the side of the citizens, and that
the Minister of Defence is agitating strongly for a substantial increase in the
Defence Budget, a factor that indicates a clear design to ensure that the
leaders of the Defence Force know clearly whose hand it is that feeds them. The fact that this is succeeding is shown
very clearly by the large number of Defence Force TV advertisements, praising
the Force and its ‘accomplishments’ in the run up to the last elections. The desires of Zuma are shown clearly by the
fact that the cell phones of Parliamentarians were jammed by the ‘Security
Forces’ in breach of the Constitution, by the expulsion of all Members of a
Party when the Speaker had an excuse to require that only three of them leave
the Chamber, by the fact that supporters of the DA standing peacefully outside
Parliament were arrested before the State of the Nation address by Zuma, and by
the fact that citizens and foreigners have been unlawfully persecuted by organs
of Government, such as SARS and the SARB.
If you
would like a prediction by a perspective observer who does not believe the
facile statements of Zuma and the ANC members, or even if you don’t, here it
is, in two parts:
1. The ANC will lose the next general election
as a result of the parlous state of the economy forcing them to cut back on
pork barrel projects to the Party favourites and all of the measures they have
built up to buy the votes of the poor and the uneducated, such as social
payments and jobs for pals, while increasing VAT, road tolls and all other
systems of diverting the ‘wealth’ of the country to those who, they hope, will
vote for them;
2. Before the results of the election
are announced, Zuma will take steps to convince the public that ‘the revolution’
which they are so fond of proclaiming (in fact, an unforced handover of power
by the National Party, which had come to believe that the collapse of the
Communist countries supporting the ANC would no longer be in a position to
implement the Communist rule that the National Party faithful had so feared)
was in danger of being reversed. The
precursor for this is clear in the repeated assertions by the ANC speakers that
the DA, the only credible Party in Opposition, desires to lead the country back
to Apartheid. Zuma will declare a State
of Emergency, impose martial law and use his ‘loyal cadres’ in the same way as
his good friend, Robert Mugabe, the Dictator of Zimbabwe, has done.
South
Africans, beware. The writing is on the
wall, starkly clear for those who wish to understand what is happening.
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