President Jacob Zuma has told the South African people that
the world likes South Africa, and that they will invest in the country.
We all know that politicians are essentially honest
people. They would not lie to us. That is even more true of the State President
than it is of other, more menial, politicians.
Zuma has proven to the South African public that he can be trusted, that
what he says is always the truth. His
statement that he showered after having sex and so would not contract AIDS was
taken as gospel truth by millions of young men, who admire him to the extent
that they would give their lives to support him. His information to the electorate that the
ANC had been granted a right by Heaven to govern the country until the second
coming of Jesus was obviously also true, and was believed by sufficient voters
to return the ANC to power in the last election. His statement that he was not aware that his
homestead at Nkandla, which had been planned to cost R38 000 000,
ended up costing R246 000 000, was obviously also true. After all, he is a busy man, visiting the
Chinese and the Russians in his unreliable Presidential aircraft that cost only
R35 000 000 six years ago, and negotiating deals that benefit the
country, while he struggles along on his (world’s largest) Presidential salary,
and he would not have noticed that the cost of his private residence had
increased seven times. His assertion
that he did not owe the State any refund on the expenditure on ‘security
upgrades’ to Nkandla was certainly also true, given that any finding by the
Public Protector is viewed by the ANC and its adherents as lies and vicious
attacks on the integrity of the governing Party. After all, the Minister of Police found that
to be the case, although he had difficulty in persuading the Opposition Parties
in Parliament of the validity of his reasoning, but he is, in the end, only a
mouthpiece for Zuma, and does not have the silver tongue of his boss. Zuma has also proven his integrity when he
denied having entered into a contract with the Russians, under which, his
detractors allege, he and the ANC would have earned a finder’s fee of many
millions of dollars at the expense of the country (in the same way as they did
for the Mitsubishi turbine deal and the Shell fraccing deal, although there
might be the teeniest trace of doubt about the veracity of this statement as a
result of the publication by the Russian embassy of the terms of the contract
the following day, but this doubt was ended by fervent denials by the
Department of Public Works (the body ultimately responsible, along with the
Police, for the over-expenditure on Nkandla) and senior officials at Eskom,
which stated unequivocally that no such contract had been entered into,
although shortly before Christmas last year it was announced that the ‘preliminary
contract’ with the Russians, which had never been entered into, was now to
proceed to the next stage.
In the light of this, and other, overwhelming proof of Zuma’s
unrelenting honesty and trustworthiness, the announcement he made at Davos that
the world likes South Africa, and that they would be making investments in the
country must be believed, at least until after the municipal elections. This announcement was necessary to prepare
the South African industrialists for the massive flow of funds into the
country, thereby staving off a further decline in the Rand (already at about
one-sixth of its value when the ANC took office) and a further downgrading of
the country’s credit rating. This
massive flow of funds will, no doubt, make it possible for the nuclear
agreement with Russia to proceed, so providing ample power to the economy,
which has been brought to its knees by the malicious actions of Jan van
Riebeeck in 1652, when he and the Whites he brought to the country to destroy
the mighty economy that the Black nations, particularly the Zulus under Shaka
had built up, failed to foresee the proclivity of the future ANC Government to
fail to maintain the infrastructure constructed by the equally vicious
Apartheid Government, or to divert some of the money bled off by corruption to
new construction, or, even better, to the development of alternative energy
sources, so that the pledges made by Zuma to combat climate change could
actually be implemented. It is not
necessary to say that the credibility of Jacob Zuma’s assessment of the
investment world’s view of South Africa is enhanced by confirmations of his
statement by Rob Davies, the Minister of Trade and Industry and Pravin Gordhan,
Minister of Finance (the new, new old Minister), both arch Communists – after all,
we know that a prime principle (one of the few) of a Communist is that the whole
truth must be told at all times.
South Africa is fortunate indeed to have Jacob Zuma as State
President. He adds enormous credibility
to the country by his careful reasoning, by his comprehensive understanding of
economics, by his lucid statements of his beliefs and objectives, and by his
utter honesty and careful avoidance of circumlocution at all times, as
evidenced by his straight and complete answers to questions in Parliament. That good fortune is doubly so at a time when
economic forces and the forces of White capitalism are conspiring to bring down
the economic might of the country, so carefully developed over centuries by the
Black people in the face of opposition by all White Capitalists, who have
nothing more to gain from such a collapse than everything they have built up
over generations.
The only country that has greater good fortune in these
difficult times is Zimbabwe.
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