JUSTICE MALALA: Which of these one-eyed losers will be king after next year's election?
The ANC, the DA, the EFF and all the rest are offering us a diet of hollow politics and factionalism
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It is all very Shakespearean in the EFF: “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
The ANC is committing hara kiri – and voters can see it. When Ramaphosa won the ANC presidency in December 2017 the party was given a new lease on life. After years of dreadful decline, it suddenly had a real chance of turning around the years of sloth, corruption and ennui it had found itself mired in.
Yet, four months in, it is clear that the ANC is perhaps incapable of change and that significant chunks of the party have already started a “fight back” campaign to undermine Ramaphosa and the party’s last chance at salvation. Unless Ramaphosa can still outsmart and outmanoeuvre these elements, the ANC will continue with the decline it experienced under Jacob Zuma.
Last weekend Ramaphosa visited eThekwini region in KwaZulu-Natal with other ANC national working committee members to try and assess progress being made with unifying the party there. They slapped him in the face. The branch delegates to the meeting sang at Ramaphosa: “Uyenzeni uZuma?” (What has Zuma done?)
Unless President Cyril Ramaphosa pulls a fast one on all of us and makes a dramatic announcement soon, we are now exactly one year from the 2019 national and provincial elections. Who will win? Sadly, our leading political parties seem to be working extremely hard to ensure that voters are so disillusioned that they will stay at home on the day. The Democratic Alliance’s vaulting hypocrisy in dealing with its two leaders, Western Cape premier Helen Zille and Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille, and their transgressions has unmasked it as a leaderless, spineless, unethical and tone-deaf entity that now undermines particularly the black constituency it has attracted through its admirable stance against corruption. Forget the appalling and outrageous “colonialism was not too bad” view itself: the failure of the DA to act against Zille for her shocking racial trolling on Twitter, her continued showing of the finger to the likes of Mmusi Maimane by constantly asserting her discredited “vie...
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