The ANC Elective Process

 

The saga continues.  The ANC is demonstrating very clearly its inability to manage a kindergarten, never mind a country.  Despite denials that anything is going wrong in the Committees and Conferences leading up to Mangaung, reports stream in of violence, vote rigging, rent-a-crowds, and killings as the passionate ANC ‘democrats’ show the world how the ANC really works.  The denials that anything is wrong, the repeated assertions that the ANC is demonstrating an internal democracy that ‘should be an example to other Parties’, are in stark contrast to the reports that show clearly a Party in the first stages of collapse.

The farce has stirred up a new wave of discomfort, among the investors who are staying away from the country in droves, and among the skilled people within the country, who are moving out again in numbers that are heading towards the worst the country has known.  These are not deserters, they are survivors.  The shenanigans of the ANC have given rise to the concern that the country is heading towards a Communist-style ‘democracy’ in which the political structures are decided at a small table, and the results of the elections are locked away in a safe until the people have voted and they can be released. 

One may be forgiven for wondering how a country that had so much hope only twenty years ago could have deteriorated to this state in less than twenty years.  The country is slipping back from its dominant position in Africa to become just another Banana Republic, the education system is continuing its collapse while the Minister for Basic Education announces that the disastrous mathematics examination results (a key for advancement of the nation) will ‘be examined to inform policy decisions in the future’, while the Rand collapses in slow motion, while the ANC in the Western Cape is promoting industrial unrest in order to promote its political standing.  Numerous signs are visible to show those who look that the slip is heading towards a landslide.

One may be forgiven for wondering when the citizens will wake up to realize that the corrupt and incompetent Ministers that pervade the Government must be thrown out, not merely reshuffled, that a competent and honest President must be put into office and his performance assessed, that the continuing statements by the President and his Ministers that ‘the previous Government’ (i.e. the ANC Government!) made mistakes but we are now introducing measures to correct them i.e. introducing new and untried experiments to correct the disastrous outcomes of previous new and untried experiments) show clearly that the ANC does not, and never did have, the capability to manage as complex a country as South Africa.  When will the country start the slow climb upwards from the ravages wreaked on it by Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and their communist Comrades?