The ANC Confirms its Spinelessness

The ANC has held an emergency meeting of its top brass, somewhat stiffened by numerous Zuma lackeys, and has now reaffirmed that it is firmly held in the grasp of the criminal charge-dodging President.

By this display of its complete lack of social and constitutional obligations to the people of the country, the ANC has proven, if any person in the country were still sufficiently obtuse to believe the ANC propaganda that it represents the people, that the top brass of the ANC are firmly in the same basket as Zuma. They have conveniently ignored the facts, that Zuma has retained in his Cabinet a group of Ministers who have repeatedly and convincingly demonstrated their incompetence and their desire to enrich themselves in every possible way at the expense of the people they nominally serve. By this, they have made themselves complicit in the criminal conduct of Zuma – the word is used advisedly, as the breach of the Constitution and of his Oath of Office by Zuma is very firmly a criminal act, which the ANC-dominated Parliament has failed to punish – and so opened themselves to being punished for those acts alongside him, when an honest Government comes into power. What Zuma has done to secure this is not yet known. It is probably a mixture of threat (his criminally-convicted Minister of Social Affairs remains at her post, despite having brought the country to the edge of a crisis, admitted that “we all have skeletons in our cupboards that we don’t want to bring into the open”) and financial inducement, as the Guptas famously made to Mcibisi Jonas (a cash offer of R600 000 to take the job as Minister of Finance and do their bidding).

The top brass of the ANC should enjoy the spoils of Zuma’s victory over right and justice as long as they come. The day of retribution will surely come, and the mood of the people is now such that the process of law might not be quick enough to satisfy the thirst of the people for honest government. For them, the choice seems to be a la the Nuremburg Trials or the fate that awaited Benito Mussolini. It is doubtful that they will be offered an Egyptian solution, or a TRC way out.

It is sad for the average citizen to be labelled with the same tag as Zuma and his cohorts. They do not deserve it. It is bad enough for a White to be asked, wherever he or she goes in Europe, Australia or the United States whether every South African is a crook. It is even sadder for the average ANC supporter to bear this burden, after the hope engendered by Nelson Mandela, after his Party had created the impression that every ANC capo believed in necklacing any opponent or possible dissenter, but it is saddest of all that the average Black must carry the label of incompetent and crook that the conduct of Zuma and his top brass have attached to them. Never mind. We still have the examples of Mcibisi Jonas and Ahmed Kathrada, both men of high honour and integrity, to show that Blacks are good people, no matter their Party affiliation.