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Original Post Date: 2008-11-10 Time: 22:00:07 Posted By: Gairk
Friday, 07 November 2008
ON SATURDAY we saw Jacob Zuma and the African National Congress (ANC) leadership at their best. The rally of more than 20,000 ANC supporters at a Soweto stadium made the national convention in Sandton, called by Mosuioa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa, seem rather pathetic, with its 5,000 supporters.
While Zuma mentioned in detail what the ANC would focus on in the year to come, Lekota made a speech that was all froth and devoid of policy analysis. He reminisced about the evils of the apartheid regime, Codesa, and briefly the dispensation under Thabo Mbeki, and then slated the current ANC (151) euphemistically called “the dominant forces” (151) for departing from the constitution and creating the despair that has besieged the nation. His mission of revenge is to decrease that dominance.
To woo the white and middle classes into his no-name-brand party, Lekota's scare tactic is to overemphasise Julius Malema's comments, forgetting that he and his ilk tolerated worse remarks from Malusi Gigaba , Peter Mokaba, and many others. The “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer” chant has manifested to the extent that more than 2,000 farmers have been murdered since 1994. In fact, Mbeki and his cabinet alienated whites, coloureds and Indians through his African renaissance, Native Club, and black economic empowerment rhetoric.
Malema's juvenile comments are simply a sideshow to the more serious stuff going on in the ANC's body politic. But Lekota has to demonise Zuma and his constituency because there is a distinct possibility that Zuma, with his appointments and people-centredness, might just outshine Mbeki. Kgalema Motlanthe's appointment of Barbara Hogan is a statement against a former president who did not give a hoot about the thousands of people, blacks in particular, who died daily of AIDS and related diseases. The appointment of Lynne Brown as Western Cape premier is a counter to the corruption and the cabal that have dominated the political landscape in that province. Zuma will yet surprise us and I am convinced that there are more cameos in the pipeline. I am also convinced that he will seek advisers to help him deal more effectively with the difficult challenges of poverty, unemployment, housing, and service delivery.
THIS is not to endorse everything Zuma and his supporters are up to. God knows, there are a number of unsavoury characters in their ranks that we could do without, but that is the nature of politics. The scum rises to the top. But lest we forget, the fight is, after all, about the lesser of two evils, or as Tony Leon calls it, the “evils of two lessers”. The more threatening “lesser” was by far the Mbeki regime. And Zuma saved us from that by thwarting Mbeki's bid for a third term at Polokwane.
If anything, Zuma should be lauded for being the only one who dared to challenge the autocrat Mbeki. It is because of Zuma that Polokwane happened. It is because of Zuma that we have a new president. To condemn the ANC for the recall of the president in the way that it happened is disingenuous, since an impeachment would have been far worse. Mbeki's sins would be writ large on the political canvas and he would have left high office under a thundercloud.
It seems a bit far-fetched for opposition parties to support Lekota and Shilowa on the grounds of principle (151) the sanctity of the constitution and democracy (151) when they know that cabal allowed the president to flout it at every turn, with regard to the weakening of Parliament, the chapter nine institutions, the National Prosecuting Authority and his support of Jackie Selebi.
The split from the ANC is not, as many think, an opportunity for true opposition. True opposition arises out of principle, values, sound policies, policy differences, and a programme of effective action. Lest we be fooled, this split from the ANC is nothing but a fight among thieves over power, control and spoils at the trough.
Kadalie is a human-rights activist based in Cape Town.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200811060111.html