Zuma is living in the past
December 16, the Day of Reconciliation, was an historical event this year.
The ANC and its president, Jacob Zuma, celebrated the old times of Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) which was disbanded many years ago.
The breakaway group, the Congress of the People (Cope), was also launched. Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa were elected president and deputy-president respectively.
In Pretoria, President Kgalema Motlanthe and former president Thabo Mbeki attended a government function with Dr Pallo Jordan, who recently admired Mbeki’s brilliance.
Was Mbeki invited by the ANC because he was once Zuma’s commander in Swaziland? It is up to the public to make a rational choice about their representatives of the future.
Certainly, for me, it is not Zuma. At the Zuma rally, young people who never participated in MK were given military uniforms.
Zuma, like Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, invokes the spirit of liberation armies whenever the ANC faces their mistakes.
Motlanthe and Lekota talked mainly about challenges of the future – not what happened in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The past is very important, but people are not looking forward to the past.
Fifteen years after liberation, people are still seeking jobs, food, security, houses and education.
Again Zuma made populist promises to care for MK soldiers who deserted the SANDF or took packages. Some of the 50 so-called MK soldiers are young and were younger than 20 years old in 1994. If Zuma will cater for these lazy people, he must also accommodate the IFP’s self-protection units.
My choice in 2009 will be a party that looks forward to the future, certainly not the ANC of Zuma that is preoccupied with the past.
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19 Décembre 2008 à 10:31 dans
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