JUSTICE MALALA: Why the ANC cannot be fixed from within
'The reality is that the entire ANC is rotten to the very core because the head is so rotten. Zuma has turned the ANC into himself'
Nothing illustrates the extent of our descent into ethical and moral bankruptcy (and political mediocrity) as comprehensively as the past week ’s events.
A deputy minister of higher education savagely beat up a woman and today, a full eight days after the outrage came to light, he still serves in the executive.
On the day after the outrageous case of Deputy Minister Mduduzi Manana was revealed , the ANC’s top brass arrived in parliament en masse and threatened its 249 MPs to vote against an opposition motion to kick President Jacob Zuma out of office. You may know Zuma: he slept with his friend ’s young daughter, has been bribed, has overseen numerous scandals, has handed the appointment of cabinet ministers to the Gupta family, has destroyed jobs and hobbled the economy and has forced two splinter parties to emerge from the ANC. His comrades in Cosatu and the SACP have told him to pack his bags.
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