Forget the nail-biting disciplinary hearing Mr Julius Malema is facing in the ANC this week: Party and Government Head Mr Jacob Zuma himself, methinks but God forbid, may well get prematurely fired by Luthuli House, ruling-ANC headquarters in down-town Johannesburg, named after a famous president of the Party, Zulu Inkosi Albert Luthuli whose life was subjected to a grisly end at the hands of agents of colonialism and imperialism, to this day still to be given a face.
I admit "fired" is perhaps too strong a word. So, let us more euphemistically rephrase "fired" with "recalled along the same lines Former President Mr Thabo Mbeki was recalled a few years ago, only far more prematurely where Zuma is concerned".
All of this could well become a reality if
1. Rumours are confirmed that Mr Zuma is getting too cozy with current American and British governments referred in these parts of the world as "Imperialist Forces".
2. (...he will be recalled if) The ANC sees a possible massive loss of votes come next national elections, all due to a disgruntled vast majority who in South Africa are ready "to kill and to die" for anti-imperialist agents like Messrs Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Julius Malema of South Africa.
BACKGROUND TO RUMOURS OF "ZUMA BEING A PUPPET OF IMPERIALIST ADMINISTRATIONS".
First and foremost (and to clarify Blogger's take), the amicable ties between the peoples of South Africa and the USA on one hand and the peoples of South Africa and Britain on the other, have never only enjoyed highness and dryness from any smudges of doubt, but they have been encouraged by all sane citizenry of the three aforementioned countries.
Us South African freedom fighters, for an example know how much the peoples of Britain and those of the USA (among other peoples of the world) sacrificed to bring nearer the day of freedom in South Africa. Personally, I was touched by the selflessness of a US citizen who back around 1992 (while I was doing radio broadcasts for the liberation movement) brought a desktop for his personal contribution to the South African struggle, and this after my journalistic colleagues had obviously complained we want out of our then marriage with decrepit noisy typewriters!
They say if you want to truly appreciate the love of your haggard old wife, divorce her for a younger and prettier 'broad' and thereafter experience the regrets! I should therefore one day tell the hilarious story behind that US computer's fate with us "Members of the Voice Broadcasting from Radio Tanzania, Dar es-Salaam, in The United Republic of Tanzania"! But for today I just to say two serious things that, firstly, us South Africans just love Americans and anything American and the fact that their President is now black is an added advantage for them.
Secondly (and still very seriously), that "love Americans to bits or to pieces", it would would still be an indefensible mammoth scandal for the ANC political party if it were to be found that even one head of state from their party confuses that fraternity of peoples with the business of running his state often viewed as an "African Superpower"!
Notions of flunkeyism or ja-baas attitude by our head of state towards the Obama administration would be akin to piling a second layer of mud onto a hapless Mr Zuma who is not only preoccupied by an anti-imperialist and "rebellious" if far more eloquent ANC Youth League, but is daily trying to comb off muddy cake after smelly cake due to having been mired in accusations of "treating state resources as if they were property of his family or buddies in his own political party".
The people say that ANC members who are corrupt as state employees on Zuma's watch are shielded at state expense from facing the music while whistleblowers (for whom there are acts of Parliament passed for their protection) are roundly and viciously victimized with vexatious litigations for no other reason except that they are non-members...JOIN THE ANC FIRST BEFORE THE ANC GOVERNMENT CAN TREAT YOU AS A FULL-FLEDGED STATE EMPLOYEE TO ENJOY ALL THE RIGHTS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC."
There is also the concern about Zuma's relatives getting into the clover left and right at state expense!
There is also the concern about Zuma's relatives getting into the clover left and right at state expense!
Now the ANC which IS (and WAS even so during struggle days) not only viewed with respect for organizational professionalism and accountability (as an organization), BUT ALSO RIGHTLY CARRIES ITSELF as the caring mother of all political organizations in the country (if not the Continent).....,
....will not want a bad reputation of leadership stupor and confusion to stay with it even for one day too long, and they will excise and dump ANY single one individual of their members, however high up he is, when the last straw threatens to break the 100-yeard-od ANC camel's back just on the very eve of its centenary!
I believe that last straw arrived today with Wikileaks's disturbing averments getting publicity around the Zuma issue and "his" Ameericans. From the link above, I am transcribing word for word. This all, supposedly due to "the big mouth and bold pen" of one Zimbabwean Opposition leader, a Mr Morgan Tsvangirai himself touted as "a well-established American puppet, if not 'agent'".
PRESIDENT Zuma's GPA facilitation on Zimbabwe has been thrown into fresh doubt following startling revelations from the latest batch of over 100 confidential US diplomatic cables that were released by WikiLeaks last Thursday.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wrote a sensational letter to President Obama in December 2009. It is this document that reveals the American leader's "crucial dialogue" with the South African leader on his mediation efforts in Zimbabwe.
In the letter, which has sent diplomatic tongues wagging across Sadc and within the AU, PM Tsvangirai revealingly told President Obama that: "As you are no doubt aware, Your Excellency, we are at a crucial stage in our efforts to ensure the full implementation of the GPA. Meanwhile, our political situation remains characterised by intransigence [allegedly by Zanu-PF] to frustrate the process of bringing about real change."
Against the backdrop of alleged Zanu-PF intransigence in the implementation of the GPA, which PM Tsvangirai's letter merely asserts without giving any supporting evidence, the embattled MDC-T leader tellingly wrote to Obama that "the role played by Sadc, in general, and the mediator President Jacob Zuma, in particular, is greatly appreciated. I know that you have personally played a crucial role in helping this to happen, and I encourage you to continue your crucial dialogue with President Zuma."
Observers who spoke to Zimpapers about the GPA implications of the disclosures of the latest WikiLeaks of US diplomatic cables on Zimbabwe say "it is now common cause that Tsvangirai has a well-established treacherous relationship with the US government". One observer further pointed out that the PM's December 2009 letter to Obama "must be embarrassing to Zuma not least because it compromises him as having backdoor communication with the US president in support of the MDC-T which is known to be supported by the US government".
What has added fuel to the fires that are now raging over PM Tsvangirai's December 2009 letter to President Obama about President Zuma's "crucial dialogue" with the US leader on the Sadc mediation in Zimbabwe and is causing quite some uproar in nationalist circles within Sadc and the AU, is that it was released by WikiLeaks together with an equally controversial letter that Tsvangirai sent to former US President George W. Bush on 14 October 2002.
In this letter, PM Tsvangirai asked Mr Bush to institute an illegal regime-change programme for Zimbabwe under the cover of the UN Security Council using the pretext of claims that observers say were patently and treacherously false.
In his October 2002 letter to George W. Bush, Mr Tsvangirai sought to have Zimbabwe put under the UN's Chapter VII regime by falsely claiming without proffering any shred of evidence that, "since February 2000, several efforts by the United States of America, the European Union, the Commonwealth, Sadc, the World Council of Churches and several local and international civic organisations appealed to (President) Robert Mugabe to uphold the rule of law, respect human rights and put a stop to political murders, rape, torture and State-sponsored terror and violence, but the illegitimate (President) Mugabe regime has not relented.
"Instead, it has demonstrated utter contempt of international opinion and has reaffirmed its commitment to carrying out crimes against humanity as a means of subjugating the people of Zimbabwe and denying them the right to freely determine their own destiny.
"It is in the context of this grim and extremely dangerous situation that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which represents the legitimate aspirations of the people of Zimbabwe, calls for the intervention of the UN Security Council in the Zimbabwe crisis in accordance with Article 39 (Chapter VII Powers) of the United Nations Charter."
Political analysts say there's a constructive link between Mr Tsvangirai's two letters to former president Bush in 2002 and President Obama in 2009 with the strategic difference that the former sought the Chapter VII intervention of the UN Security Council to implement regime change in Zimbabwe led by the US whereas the former seeks the mediation intervention of Sadc to achieve the same objective under the SA facilitation of the GPA process.
In other words, what was supposed to be internationalised in 2002 through the UN with Mr Bush leading the frontline has become regionalised since 2009 with President Zuma holding the baton as the facilitator of Sadc's mediation in Zimbabwe.
However, President Zuma's facilitation has right from the beginning been mired in controversy highlighted by his reliance on the megaphone approach of his facilitation team of officials for whom Lindiwe Zulu has been the "reckless and thus unacceptable spokesperson" whose public pronouncements on the political situation in Zimbabwe have routinely and provocatively echoed the American line.
President Zuma's facilitation team of officials has no locus standi in or before Sadc and has since 2009 overstepped permissible boundaries.
Concerned about President Zuma's reliance on proxies like Lindiwe Zulu who have been accused of fronting for American interests whose letter and spirit are, thanks to the latest Wikileaks disclosures, reflected in Tsvangirai's December 2009 letter to Obama, the annual Sadc summit held in Luanda, Angola, two weeks ago asked the SA leader to engage the principals of Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations directly without relying on his supporting team.
Upon his return from the Angola Sadc summit President Mugabe told reporters that there was only one facilitator, President Zuma, who was chosen in his personal and not national capacity.
"The facilitation team does not belong to us. We know of one person who is facilitator, it's not South Africa which is facilitator, it's President Zuma personally who is a facilitator and he naturally gets people that will help him to do his job of facilitating . . . ," said President Mugabe.
Given this understanding which is the official Sadc position, Tsvangirai's confirmation in his December 21 2009 letter to Obama revealing that the US president is personally having backdoor communication with the SA president on the implementation of the GPA has triggered an uproar. All this has been made worse by the fact that Tsvangirai's revealing December 2009 letter to Obama has been released by Wikileaks at the same time as President Zuma is assuming the chairmanship of the Sadc Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security while retaining his role as Sadc facilitator on Zimbabwe.
This effectively makes him report to himself to the detriment of basic principles of natural justice which require functional checks and balances in matters of this nature. Asked to comment on these developments political scientist and Tsholotsho North Member of Parliament, who is also a member of Zanu-PF's Politburo, Professor Jonathan Moyo said that Mr Tsvangirai's leaked letter to President Obama makes President Zuma's position as mediator in Zimbabwe "very difficult if not altogether untenable".
He added that, "by definition a mediator must be untainted and without the slightest suspicion of partiality or collusion with one of the parties in the mediation".
"The fact that Morgan's praise of Obama's personal role in Sadc's mediation has been revealed by Wikileaks when President Zuma is now chairman of the Sadc Organ Troika in addition to being a mediator in Zimbabwe means that Sadc needs to review the arrangement as a matter of urgency otherwise the regional body will lose control of the situation in Zimbabwe and risk inviting very dangerous consequences that are too ghastly to imagine."
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