MarkH

 

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ANC's 'feeble excuses'

There’s a growing trend in SA which is hard to explain unless you are a fascist or dream of living in a dictatorship. For these individuals we are heading in the right direction, the only question is why.

Racism - all types of inequality in fact - as well as the struggle for freedom ceased officially to exist with the ANC elected to power and the adoption of a new constitution, nearly 20 years ago.

Since then however the excuses have come thick and fast as to why they are unable to offer clean, responsible and transparent governance in terms of the mandate they were given and why they are unable to provide the services - and equality for all - which they promised. Their excuses are growing feebler and the masses are growing restless.

Now we have a call for another struggle, this time for economic freedom and that’s a misnomer if ever I’ve heard one. Rather call it what it is, a license to steal.

Economic freedom comes from working, from endeavour - there’s no other way - but when you’ve plundered a country as effectively as the ANC have - until the coffers are bare but the cadres are still increasing in number, as are their demands, and the taxpayers cannot handle the cost anymore and the poor remain poor and the unemployable youth have become desperate - what else can you call for?

The ANC and its youth league are reading from the same page, we are not.

They can either start an anti-white war or they can start an economic war against those still employed like the majority of the whites, and others, who are deemed to be wealthy. An anti-white campaign wouldn’t go down well, especially with those still invested here, but who’s going to deny that the average African is still living below the bread line? Nobody’s interested in whose fault it now is - after all aren’t white South Africans racists and thus to blame for whatever ills exist in the country?

A good number of those in Parliament - in the ruling party mostly which would really be weird in any other democracy - are rogues as evidenced by their criminal records - if such still exist - and the thievery seems to be increasing continuously with new cases being reported virtually daily.

However, instead of a clean-up taking place, as promised on many occasions, more and more stone-walling now seems be taking place, even in Parliament where the ruling party members actively defend each other’s lack of a work ethic, and in reality defeat the ends of justice they’re supposed to uphold.
When all else fails they then fall back on apartheid or racism, those oldest and dearest of all their legacies.

With the implementation of a “secrecy” bill we are now faced with the distinct possibility that the ANC will really do as they please and there will be nobody to report it, thus nobody can be seen to be guilty of any wrong-doing and thus not only a complete cover-up in place but also nobody to question what happened.

The opposition parties - currently the only people who can actually bring any of this to light by asking questions in Parliament - will be just as hamstrung as there will be nothing they can question as nothing will be available for them to see. They will, like us, be totally in the dark as to the workings of the NEC – another word for politburo – of the ruling party and voila, we have a dictatorship / one-party state. Think about it.

We are in reality facing a united front of core people who have only one goal in mind, the total domination of all facets of this country from the means of production, as mentioned recently by both Patrice Motsepe and Malema, to the control of the media, armed forces and foreign policy. They already control – if that is the word to use when mismanage makes more sense - the last two mentioned and should the demanded nationalisation take place of farmland, mines, banks and industry they will have it all. And this without a shot fired in anger, at least not by the ANC - though many of the murdered farmers might disagree here.

Why the attempt to muzzle the public, the taxpayers and those with a genuine interest in the future of this country? Why no attempt to muzzle Julius Malema and his rabble rousers who are creating the instability and chaos?

The answer is there for all to see but few wish to accept it as it is very unpalatable – the ANC have wrecked the country and they have no idea where they, or we, are now going. They have destroyed the infrastructure, they have tarnished our status overseas, they have turned the country into a welfare state and they have now lost the plot, after spending and wasting it all on re-inventing the wheel. All they have left to play are the race and wealth cards. And they must, and they will, play these even when their own people drag them out into the streets.

If we don’t get rid of this bunch of greedy scroungers soon we’re going to look even sillier than our president does, carting 2 wives around the world to prove his roots are still firmly entrenched in the soil.

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