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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 06:00:11 Posted By: Jan
ANC president Jacob Zuma wrapped up three days on the campaign trail in the Free State with a meeting in the same venue used by dissident leader Mosiuoa Lekota a week ago.
Zuma was greeted by a capacity crowd, while Lekota had battled to fill the hall at the Vista branch of Free State University.
He told youth and members of religious organisations at the meeting that the “prodigal sons” – a reference to Lekota and fellow rebels Mbhazima Shilowa and Mluleki George – would eventually return to the fold.
Israel Swanepoel, 79, who donned his best suit to come to the meeting, said he came to support Zuma on his journey to become president.
“I’m here to say that whatever Zuma did, he must be forgiven. Like anyone, he was tempted,” said Swanepoel, who joined the ANC in 1959.
Addressing businesspeople and farmers in a Bloemfontein auditorium – also packed – earlier on Wednesday, Zuma questioned the logic of paying police and other essential services personnel “peanuts”.
He argued that low salaries made them susceptible to corruption.
Zuma, whose next campaign trail stop will be KwaZulu-Natal, said police should be paid better.
“I will be a bit provocative that the remuneration of the police should be better than what it is.
“The people dealing with crime are getting peanuts but they chase criminals to whom R100 000 is small change,” he said.
“People who do the most essential services are the least paid. Others who do things we don’t know are well paid.
“Let us do the right thing,” said Zuma. He urged people to vote for the ANC in the coming elections.
“We encourage you to register but when you vote, you should choose a reasonable organisation.
“We also are saying this organisation (the ANC) is the correct choice,” he said.
The ANC’s victories in the past three elections were proof that its policies were better than those of other political parties, Zuma said.
He touched on a range issues – including ANC policies, racism, crime and the breakaway political party planned by former defence minister Lekota and ex-Gauteng premier Shilowa.
He maintained that the perception that crime was out of control was primarily due to South Africa being a “transparent society” in which crimes were reported.
Other countries, he said, were more circumspect and under-reported crime.
However, Zuma admitted that crime still remained a huge problem and needed to be “eradicated”.
Zuma played down the issue of racism in South Africa, saying that it was wrong for people to use a few incidents to “trump up” the perception that racism was rampant in the country, he said.
“We have broken the back of that. We must not trump up those incidents,” he said.
Taking a swipe at Lekota – who has accused Zuma of promoting tribalism – the ANC president said his detractors had nothing better to say.
“The labels of ethnicity and tribalism come out every time that they don’t have something to say. We need to discourage that,” he said.
Zuma rejected Lekota’s claim that the party had deviated from the Freedom Charter, saying all Lekota was complaining about were T-shirts bearing his (Zuma’s) face.
“I don’t remember a clause in the Freedom Charter that says anything about T-shirts.
“All that I heard Lekota say which is in the Freedom Charter is the clause that ‘all will be equal before the law’.
“We as the ANC respect the law. In fact, we hold the Freedom Charter in our hands all the time,” he said.
Zuma said government had to take “radical” steps to make “sufficient investment” in education to rid the country of poverty, crime and the skills shortage.
He even suggested that bunking school classes should be a punishable offence. “No child should be loitering around during school time. If such children are not listening, we must declare it a crime for a child not to be at school.
“We should look at our laws, people must not say that this is abuse of children because by so doing (we) are creating the future of this country,” he said.
He repeated his message that subjects such as maths should be made “compulsory” so as to produce the kind of skills required.