Loud, greedy operators are destined to fail

Brian Molefe’s speech at a New Age event at the end of 2016 was the political equivalent of that incident where English public schoolboys thought it would be funny to stick firecrackers up a frog’s bottom.

Many people including otherwise objective journalists and commentators, are scared of Molefe — a supposedly brilliant “transformation agent” who apparently rides a Harley Davidson, makes unpleasant statements about Transnet pensioners and has the most fashionable of accessories against so-called White Minority Capital (WMC) — a son arrested for campus hooliganism who belongs to some obscure movement.

That’s rubbish. Molefe is an insincere crybaby and his speech was notable not for the ambitions of black economic emancipation pronounced, but for revealing more of the design of the parallel government working against the people of SA — a movement comprising twisted, greedy, thick, pathologically dishonest and ideologically retarded bullies, blessers, semi-cooked rural officials, fringe groups, disgraced journalists and other individuals seconded for reasons now clear.

This parallel government emerged largely in 2015, first with the inappropriate yet sly appointment of Mosebenzi Zwane as mineral resources minister, then with the appointment of Des van Rooyen as finance minister — quite possibly the most useful idiot to have featured in a modern democracy.

As 2016 revealed, this parallel government exercises far more influence than the actual government of SA. Some of its operatives, from the chairman of Eskom to its acting CEO to the chairwoman of South African Airways (SAA), do not listen to the organs of state whose functions include appointments and oversight.

Corporate governance and procedure are, according to this parallel government, imposters originating from a western paradigm designed to “undermine blacks”. There are reasonable grounds to believe this parallel government considers accountability as one of its many enemies.

The parallel government addresses the electorate not from Parliament, but from taxpayer-funded breakfast broadcasts on lousy television channels where they serve fruit truffles in wine glasses, or outside the steps of court, or at media conferences in which journalists are invited only to be insulted.

In 2016, a venomous racial dimension dramatically buoyed this parallel government. The mythical theme of WMC accelerated with unusual efficiency and surprising accuracy. As Black Lives Matter illustrates, racial campaigns are complex, disorderly and almost impossible to channel, but this parallel government’s articulation of WMC, particularly in social media, in such a short space of time speaks to the higher involvement or guidance from an organisation heavily skilled in the dark arts of political campaigning, division, deception and propaganda.

In 2016, the parallel government succeeded in the execution of a few of its objectives. It has succeeded in peddling the myth of WMC to the point of national discussion, and in state-owned enterprise succession exercises, in which low-quality people such as Matshela Koko are appointed in the wake of other low-quality people.

It has succeeded in belittling Parliament and humiliating principled ANC officials into submission.

But, ultimately, it will fail, and the reason has surprisingly little to do with politics. Since December 2015, a number of very normal people have resisted the slippery ambitions of this parallel government, mostly alone, in the absence of courageous politicians. It was patriotic staff at the Treasury, not flashy bankers, whose resistance forced President Jacob Zuma to reappoint Pravin Gordhan as finance minister. A group of now-resigned SAA officials resisted tax abuse at the beleaguered airline, the courageous testimonies of former SABC employees exposed Communications Minister Faith Muthambi as the crafty, bent tool she is, and other journalists, many threatened by people like Iqbal Survé or Nazeem Howa, waded into this parallel government’s sewer with their only protection being public interest.

But the most significant resistance came from ordinary voters who enrage its extensions in foundations and movements by refusing to subscribe to the blind, radical, racial solidarity it advocates, who read things such as SAA chairwoman Dudu Myeni’s claim that she won’t resign because “she is promoting transformation against a privileged minority” and who aren’t afraid to shake their heads with: “Good grief, that woman talks utter cr*p”.

MOLEFE IS AN INSINCERE CRYBABY AND HIS SPEECH WAS NOTABLE FOR REVEALING MORE OF THE DESIGN OF THE PARALLEL GOVERNMENT