WHY does everybody act surprised about the extent of the "state capture" by the Gupta family?
African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe tells us the party has only now suddenly realised that certain individuals are captured by business, as if they were not aware all along of the Guptas’ manoeuvres.
Jeff Radebe tells us the next ANC national executive committee (NEC) is likely to discuss this, as if they have just woken up to the fact that the Guptas have been, at the very least, privy to Cabinet appointments before the actual appointees (what the ANC calls deployees).
The fact is the ANC has been aware of this practice since, at least, the time Fikile Mbalula complained about it. That was before the ANC’s Mangaung conference.
Yet the party still elected Jacob Zuma as its president in Mangaung and sidelined honest comrades such as Kgalema Motlanthe, with Cyril Ramaphosa playing a decisive role in this.
This matter, together with the Nkandla scandal, were all known to the ANC leadership and no one has publicly opposed it. Instead, the NEC endorsed Mr Zuma for a second term. Why should we believe that the committee is now taking the issue of the "state capture" seriously?
Voters, especially black voters, need to wake up and admit that we were fools to believe this is the same ANC we voted for and have believed in since 1994.
The ANC with moral integrity ended with the Mbeki presidency.
Every one of the current ANC national executive committee and all those who campaigned and misled voters to vote for the ANC in 2008 and subsequent elections are responsible for the mess we are in. None of them deserves to be re-elected.
Magilogilo Cele
Morningside
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WHY does everybody act surprised about the extent of the "state capture" by the Gupta family?
African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe tells us the party has only now suddenly realised that certain individuals are captured by business, as if they were not aware all along of the Guptas’ manoeuvres.
Jeff Radebe tells us the next ANC national executive committee (NEC) is likely to discuss this, as if they have just woken up to the fact that the Guptas have been, at the very least, privy to Cabinet appointments before the actual appointees (what the ANC calls deployees).
The fact is the ANC has been aware of this practice since, at least, the time Fikile Mbalula complained about it. That was before the ANC’s Mangaung conference.
Yet the party still elected Jacob Zuma as its president in Mangaung and sidelined honest comrades such as Kgalema Motlanthe, with Cyril Ramaphosa playing a decisive role in this.
This matter, together with the Nkandla scandal, were all known to the ANC leadership and no one has publicly opposed it. Instead, the NEC endorsed Mr Zuma for a second term. Why should we believe that the committee is now taking the issue of the "state capture" seriously?
Voters, especially black voters, need to wake up and admit that we were fools to believe this is the same ANC we voted for and have believed in since 1994.
The ANC with moral integrity ended with the Mbeki presidency.
Every one of the current ANC national executive committee and all those who campaigned and misled voters to vote for the ANC in 2008 and subsequent elections are responsible for the mess we are in. None of them deserves to be re-elected.
Magilogilo Cele
Morningside
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