South Africa - Part 2 - Sins of the Fathers

South Africa - a democratic farce?

The ruling ANC claims that it has a good story to tell!

Indeed they might have a small part of a good story, such as the building of nearly 3

million houses for the underprivileged, so called RDP houses (RDP = Reconstruction and development). However, what about the houses that had been built sub – standard? Cracking and crumbling away? Not a good story!

What about water and sewage? All the aquifers between Johannesburg and Pretoria is claimed to have to been contaminated with faeces! All the service protests are about these issues! During the last couple of months, the service protests have increased to more than 30 per day, according to some observers.

The ANC on their version had learned from General Von Giap in Vietnam how to utilize violence in order to assemble a take-over. Julius Malema from the Economic

Freedom Fighters (EFF)) knows firsthand how to employ such tactics. He will certainly be a formidable opponent in the coming elections in South Africa. The ANC will not have it all its own way. In 1994 when some of us said that everyone should vote for the ANC, we were labelled as rebels. It made sense as it’s all a numbers game. For as long as it’s one man, one vote the black vote would outnumber the white vote. Having voted for the sense at that time en masse would have ensured that the ANC would have access to the skills required to set South Africa on an economic boom track. However, more and more issues are being polarised, and it’s boiling down to black and white. The sins of the fathers!

Read this article relating to the 1994 elections and the brokered deal, the peoples votes did not matter!!
Link to Guardian LV article

Inside the ANC the SACP (Communist Party) members are standing exceptionally strong; Blade Nzimande continuously makes highly controversial statements. This whilst he is a land baron in own right. His children attend private schools. No mingling for them with the poor people whose purpose is supposedly championed by the SACP contingent. The SACP has always been known as the most Stalinist communist parties. The SACP is hell bent on harnessing the private sector far socialist goals. While they enrich themselves tremendously at the cost of the downtrodden who are extremely confused to speak for themselves. However, any little bit of relief from the government is absorbed in this milieu. The grants to 17 million people along with the provision of 3 million houses all came at a financial cost. Houses need to be maintained, the grants have no provision to serve as an enticement in order to convince recipients thereof to start looking for jobs. Due to the world economic situation finding itself in a situation of dire straits for several years and only starting to raise its head, albeit at an exceedingly precarious speed, the facts are that the pains associated with such negative contractions also had a negative impact on politics.

During this period, South Africans started looking with more critical eyes at corruption and serious irregularities. The Arms Commission established to pierce the veil of secrecy and to expose the shenanigans to which specifically Andrew Feinstein in his various works refer. The fact that corruption in this matter could reach the levels it did was only because the technocrats and the securocrats could be involved. In this regard, they quote secrecy legislation, and they have managed to gain control in the courts. Judges play along with their wishes. State funds are spent willy nilly, yet the Organs as described in Chapter 9 of the Constitution does not and is not seen as to act decisively against these issues. The Public Protector in South Africa, Adv Thuli Madonsela, has delivered a report in respect of the State funds irregularly spent on the President’s private compound at Nkandla.

Officialdom had become adept at blocking investigations into issues of corruption. Corruption under the ANC has become, writes John-Kane Berman. He specifically shows that the National Development Plan is nothing else but an instrument in order to activate South Africa into a communist enclave. In this enclave, the nomenklatura will have enriched themselves tremendously at the cost of the poor. They will be totally untouchable as they control the levers of power as well as the courts.
John-Kane Berman writes about the National Party (NP): “Ministers profited from advance information about expropriations under the Group Areas Act. Other land deals also made ministers and their friends rich. Half the Cabinet sat on the board of a company to whom they swung government printing contracts.” Nelson Mandela on becoming President proclaimed “Never again.” Indeed, never again anything such as apartheid, such as the blatant corruption. Why should we accept this?

Why was there no outcry from the civil society under the NP when these actions took place? Because in the eyes of the public they got services. Wendy Luhabe, wife of Sam Shilowa (Mbasima), previous Premier of Gauteng stated some years ago that education under apartheid was better than the education under the ANC.

Would it be a mistake to state that if Pres Zuma had put his foot down and insisted on services there would be much more contentment in the civil society? Would the ANC have been seen more as the champion of the people? Would Nkandla have become such a big issue? If there was service delivery on a large scale would people have forgiven him for Nkandla or even if he had built 10 Nkandla’s?

All Zuma’s indiscretions- are because his enemies had set traps for him, and continue to do so because he gives his enemies the opportunity to capitalise on such? The lack of discipline in the South African society needs to be checked. Can Pres Zuma at long last show us that he is the man who can take care of such or will he continue to be led by his nose through his Intelligence services, which had been severely compromised or else by people such as the “brave” General Officer Commanding of the SA Special Forces?

If Pres Mugabe from Zimbabwe could stay on for such a long time and cock a snoot at the Western World, thereby exposing their ineptness, why should he then not be proclaimed a hero? Pres Putin from Russia had called their bluff in Ukraine, perhaps it is time for the world to begin to re-evaluate as to whether the way they were bought up has substance? When reading the works by Alvin Toffler who states that the Western education system is focused on producing machines for business and not to be freethinkers, then one gets to realize that maybe there is more to learn from Africa than what one might think.

Should Pres Zuma be received on the 7th of May’s elections, it will create a most compelling situation. The moment is his to grab, forget the good story, it has not yet been told, forget moving forward – over the precipice, now is the time to take action. South Africa has so much potential, but if the Captain of the ship is acting like one

of the Oceania, who was the first to abandon his ship, then a disaster is on its way.
Should the President show us that he is serious we shall praise him, failing which we shall have to comment. Mr PW Botha had failed to take up the cudgels and drowned in the Rubicon. Pres De Klerk, despite all his awards, is the one who only took up the cudgels after he had painted himself into a corner.

Water under the bridge or is it smoke on the water?

The sins of the fathers, the more it changes the more it stays the same!

Democracy – a farce?