The official ANC statement
regarding the disastrous bungle by Jacob Zuma in replacing an experienced and
trusted Minister of Finance with one whose record boasts of a catastrophic
failure of his leadership as Mayor of Morofeng (ending in a riot and the burning
down of his home as the best way, possibly the only way, for the citizens to
get rid of him) has confirmed that Zuma is decisive and statesmanlike, only changing
his decision after the heads of four of the major banks informed him of how
badly he had erred, and with the support of the international financial
community, which punished the country by wiping R189 billion off the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Of course,
Zuma is godlike to many of the senior ANC functionaries, all of them almost
certainly in his pocket and dependent on his presence as President for the
grossly-overpaid positions they hold with barely any requirement of
performance. He must be God, for he
certainly works in mysterious ways!
This comes as no real surprise. Zuma has committed bungle after bungle during
his time as President, ever one of them covered up by lies and deception by
those around him. One can only assume
that the rewards to the senior ANC fellowship must be huge – it would be
difficult to imagine that they could hold onto such an incompetent figurehead
in normal circumstances. The great
advantage of having had Zuma as President is that it has demonstrated beyond
any doubt that the South African Constitution, widely touted by the ANC and its
stooges as being the best in the world, is severely deficient in numerous
aspects, not the least being its tendency to tolerate repeated flouting by the
Executive – the very people charged with protecting it. If the country is able to survive until Zuma’s
next greatest bungle – or act of corruption – finally causes even the ANC to
recognize that he is not capable of doing the job, the country may experience
the good fortune of gaining a totally new set of leaders.
It will be good that the ANC does not recall Zuma, only to
replace him with another, unknown, ANC clod.
It would be far better for Zuma to cling onto power until the ANC can be
removed, by vote or by revolution a la Arab Spring, and be replaced by a new
group, which will, no doubt, spend the first two years investigating the antics
of the President and his multitudinous Ministers, and recovering the billions
they have bled off the economy. The ANC
has shown, by its unwavering support of Jacob Zuma, even in the face of
incontrovertible evidence of his corruption and incompetence, that there is no
real difference between them and Jacob Zuma – he is clearly no more than the
willing figurehead, the absorber of the anger of the thinking people, to
distract them from the people really to blame for the mobile disaster that has
brought the once-great country which, under Nelson Mandela, was able to attract
the admiration and hope of the world, to its knees, and made it the epitome of
the African basket case.
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