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| President Jacob Zuma Pcture with Courtesy |
If I look at all the clever moves of ANC President Mr Jacob Zuma, I read the tell-tale signs that indeed the ANC will rule South Africa forever. This is when the English bandy around the saying: If You Can't Beat Someone, Join Them! I say at least Mr Jacob Zuma should be knighted for being the smartest politician modern South Africa has ever produced and the ANC can count itself very lucky to have a man of his calibre fighting to garner for it that which they are bound to get in droves come May 7 2014: The Votes.
If you ask me why I think the ANC could do surprisingly well in the elections (bar a surprise performance by opposition Julius Malema's EFF which could serve as a damper for Zumaphoid ambitions on the ballot box), here is the reason: IT IS THE SAME REASON FOR WHICH WE WATCH AL PACINO MOVIES.
There is just inestimable pleasure at watching someone like Mr Jacob Zuma escape with ease from life-threatening danger, irrespective of conflict between Houdini's cause and Watcher's.
For sure, we may not like what Mr Jacob Zuma is getting fairly or unfairly accused of doing: milking the coffers of South Africa dry for his personal benefit...and I believe 99.99999% of South Africans don't like it. The problem is 100.00000% of us love the pleasure of watching the death-defying stunts the man gives us for free especially when some of us have years last been to the cinema.
That is the simple reason why we give him and his ANC the vote to rule us, irrespective of the million or two that passed for his unconscionable benefit "possibly without his awareness" (as the story of Zuma's, Schabir Shaik's and the Mr Makhanya of Public Protector's Report goes).
I cannot believe Mr Jacob Zuma can "hit" South Africa very heavily using the same method he used the first time, that is if I watched the 3-hour long presentation of the Public Protector's Final Report warts and all, relay TV station glamour-gremlins and all.
I cannot as a citizen believe my department of defence threw away everything that a reasonable man with knowledge of public finance management regimes of this country, particularly an officer of state like some lieutenant-general-Ramlakan-or-something, would have done to safeguard the benefits of this nation all in order to please one man Jacob Zuma's personal comfort at his Nkandla homestead.
I cannot believe that my department of public works seems to have known nothing about laws passed for safeguarding state expenditure and thus threw caution to the wind in order to build a house for one man.
I cannot believe that my department of safety and security a.k.a. the police seemingly doen't know what a national keypoint is and how state finances should be expended for its upkeep, to say nothing of follow-ups on people concerned with the said transactions, e.g. ["Mr Jacob Zuma who was instructed to pay for the security upgrades at his private Nkandla Homestead]". And why on earth would such a department in the first place start putting security upgrades to Phiri's Mamelodi house, upgrades that are commesurate to a national keypoint, EVEN BEFORE PHIRI'S HOUSE IS DECLARED A NATIONAL KEYPOINT, is boggles my mind.
Why is the department of police (or whatever name it is called these days what with the militirization that saw them mowing down effectively unarmed workers in Marikana recently) informing Private Citizen Phiri of Mamelodi about the need to pay for the security upgrades of his house in Mamelodi only a year after the commencement of such upgrades? And why are they not pursuing me to pay such to this day all with the result that innocent tax payers end up paying for me?
I cannot believe how a man emerges with the name "Mr Makhanya" who is [very lilttle known to Mr Jacob Zuma as some kind of an architect for his private house in Nkandla]. I cannot imagine how Mr Makhanya suddenly wrests all powers of responsibility for expenditure over Nkandlagate...usurping it from my all-so-powerful department of defence, seizing it from my much-entrusted deparment of public works, nibbing it from the police department and others only to inflate what was supposed to be some R47 million worth of a homestead to about R250 Million still counting!
The said 'shady' Mr Makhanya (being a Bantu of dark Africa he should certainly being a lot shadier than Schabir Schaik the Asian) is pocketing something like R16 Million from his extravagance at my expense as Citizen Phiri AND THERE IS NO LAWFUL POWER INVESTED ON THE PUBLIC PROTECTOR TO RECOMMEND ANY ACTION TO BE TAKEN ON WHOM THAT I PERCEIVE TO BE DAY-LIGHT ROBBER MAKHANYA!
Worse, there is no power invested on the Public Protector to recommend any lawfully-binding action to be drastically taken against the man (Mr Jacob Zuma) who has association, however "flimsy", with Mr Makhanya. All that Zuma can be compelled to do is to pay SOME percentage back, which percentage should be determined by OTHERS as equally on the Employ of Public Servant #1 Jacob Zuma as General Ramlakan and the Ministers of Public Works and Police! And does this sound like a never-ending circus that even Jesus Christ will indeed return to find us South Africans watching?
IT IS!
For that matter, Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela says: ["I have done my part. It is now the turn of the rest in South African society to do theirs"].
Opposition parties, particularly the DA and the EFF, say: ["Our part is to impeach him State President Zuma and thereafter charge him or vice-versa in whatever-the-course-of-action once attempted in the USA with President Bill Clinton"]
This sounds to me like the silliest pipe dream anybody has ever had!
Good Politicians, There Is No Lawful Power on Earth that Will Remove Jacob Zuma from the Union Buildings!
Let us just knight the, the guy! Of course while we wait for Thy Kingdom Come!
Amen!
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