There can be no clearer evidence
than this, of the fact that the ANC considers itself to be above the Constitution.
The have shown that when they failed to recall Zuma when he was found by the
Public Protector, a body enshrined in the Constitution to protect the public
against the predation routinely exercised by the Executive, to be guilty of
unjust enrichment in the using of public funds to build his homestead. They
enhanced that disregard of the Constitution by embarking on a vicious campaign
to bring the Public Protector into disrepute. They failed the test of respect
for the Constitution again, when they failed to reprimand Zuma for his breach
of the Constitution and of his Oath of Office, and again when they meekly
accepted his insult to the public by ‘apologising’ to the public for their
confusion in failing to understand that he had accepted all along that he would
repay the money. They have shown disrespect for the Constitution, the highest
law in the land, by supporting him against motions to impeach him for his
numerous acts of wrongdoing, for failing for several years to comply with a
Court Order to hand over the spy tapes, for inducing the Minister of Police to
lie to Parliament in order to protect Zuma from any requirement to pay back the
money, for failing to respect a Court Order compelling him to arrest a renegade
President, Omar al Bashir, who was subject to a Warrant of Arrest issued by the
International Criminal Court for genocide (300 000 of his citizens were
killed by his regime, yet Zuma did not consider him to be subject to the law, as
he does not consider himself to be subject to the law), they have supported him
in his lying about the status of the Waterkloof Air Force Base as a national
security point when he permitted his friends, the Guptas, to use the Base to
land several hundred guests for the Gupta wedding (permitting him to shunt the
blame to fall guys who were then given plush sinecures as Ambassadors as a
reward for taking the fall), and they have failed to reprimand or even criticize
him for the multiple failings of his dozens of Ministers in their failings,
such as Bathabile Dlamini, who disregarded an Order of the Constitutional Court
and so precipitated a near crisis in the payment of social grants, the Minister
of Communications in her reappointment of a man ordered by the Public Protector
and the Court to be dismissed for lying about his qualifications, for his
continued support of the Chairperson of SAA, who has brought a profitable
business to its knees, at a cost of over R20 billion to the public, by an
amazing lack of business capability and implementation of lunatic decisions aimed
to enrich the ANC cadres, by his lack of action in correcting Eskom’s failings,
which contributed to a decline in South Africa’s GDP b at least 2% p.a. by
failing to run a previously world class utility in a responsible manner (even
disregarding the ‘finder’s fees and share participations by the ANC in the
contracts handed out by that body).
Now the ANC NEC has taken the
ultimate step. It has encouraged Zuma to appeal an Order of Court compelling
him to disclose the reasons for firing a Minister of Finance, in the aftermath
of a blatant lie by Zuma to the people, claiming that he fired Gordhan on the
basis of a security report on his conduct, which has now been shown for the
childish excuse that it is. This Court Order is an affirmation of Zuma’s duty
to account to Parliament for his actions as President, enshrined in the
Constitution. It is also, in effect, a mandate to Parliament to hold the
President to account for his actions. Parliament is the body in which the
authority and obligation is vested to manage and control the actions of the
Executive. By calling on the President to appeal an Order of Court compelling
him to perform his function in the appointment and discharging of a senior
Minister, the ANC NEC is effectively instructing the President, who is
ultimately the President of the people, not only of the ANC, to ignore the
Constitution, which is the ultimate law.
This does not come as a surprise.
The ANC has demonstrated for many years that it considers itself to be the
primary arbiter in the country of what is just and what is not, of what the
Government does for and to the country, and, frequently, against the country,
disregarding the prime intention of the Constitution, to ensure the best
benefit for the citizens. The ANC and its associated ‘revolutionary movements’ saw
nothing wrong with killing their own people to ensure that they toed the ANC
line during the days before the peaceful handover of power to the majority and
subsequent to that time. The political killings always reach a peak before the ‘election’
of candidates to feed at the trough of ANC-induced corruption. The ANC has
tolerated a massacre of the farmers who, it assumes, represent a nest of
opposition to their policies. The ANC has managed the Police Services, the
Hawks, the National Prosecuting Authority, the State Owned Entities, the
educational system, the Energy Authority and almost every aspect of the country’s
institutions to a new low of performance and capability. It has succeeded in
that aim also in replacing the Public Protector with a toothless stooge, after
the high point in that body’s performance under the previous incumbent, and it
is now working on the Courts and the justice system, the only remaining element
of honesty and justice in the infrastructure of the country.
One can only hope that the
impending implosion of this corrupt and inept Party will happen before it has
the chance to bring about the final destruction of the Rainbow Nation that
Nelson and so many of his fellows suffered to bring into existence.
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