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Original Post Date: 2008-12-15 Time: 01:00:07 Posted By: Jan
By Deon de Lange
The ANC’s response to the formation of the Congress of the People has left sections of society paralysed with fear akin to the terror that gripped the nation under apartheid leaders John Vorster and PW Botha, interim party chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota has told party delegates in Mangaung, Free State.
Without mentioning the ANC by name, Lekota on Sunday said public servants – fearing victimisation – now “talk in whispers when they discuss COPE”.
“Men and women with whom we worked and shared jokes now have to look the other way when we chance upon each other along the corridors of state buildings. And when we meet elsewhere, they report that they risk losing their jobs if they are seen to befriend us,” he claimed.
In his political report at the party’s inaugural congress, Lekota suggested spying – “as under apartheid” – to determine who was attending COPE meetings was rife on the country’s factory floors and in boardrooms and communities.
He also accused ANC leaders of “thriving” on political hate speech and of allowing their supporters to compose and sing songs “encouraging hatred and killing of COPE leaders”.
And he urged COPE members to resist the temptation to retaliate in kind.
This message was repeated by party deputy chairperson Mbhazima Shilowa, who urged members to exude democratic values “through the way we speak and behave”.
Lekota said COPE had a responsibility to show South Africans that everybody had the right to listen to all political parties without disruption; that no political party could prevent others from canvassing among its members; and that elections were there to be won or lost by any party.
“We must avoid the pomposity of those who believe that once voted into power, one will be returned to power again and again.”
In a reference to the possible re-instatement of criminal charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma, Lekota said the prosecuting authorities had been “threatened with becoming public enemy number one” if they dared to go ahead with the case.
Without mentioning him by name, Lekota also criticised the apparently deliberate bungling of a drunk-driving case against convicted fraudster and ANC stalwart Tony Yengeni.
“Police officers who arrest leaders of the ruling party tell under oath how they are coerced to change charge sheets to facilitate the escape of such leaders from the wrath of the law,” he noted.
In an attempt to claim the legacy and spirit of Nelson Mandela for COPE’s cause, Lekota referred to the iconic statesman about seven times.
He suggested that Mandela’s “profound early teachings on democracy” had been “abandoned or jettisoned overnight” by the new ANC leadership.
“Democratic practice has eluded the rulers of our country with alarming speed,” the former defence minister said.
The flip side of this coin was that an increasing number of South Africans were becoming disillusioned with the government of the day, and that men and women of conscience who “yesterday hung their heads in shame as they pondered the so-called leaders chosen for them” could now look their counterparts in the eye as they debated moral issues.
Lekota added that, 14 years into democracy, people could no longer claim apartheid still existed in SA.