Elite out of control

WHO in South Africa is wallowing in riches, enjoying impunity from prosecution, revelling in the exercise of unlimited power, trampling on the constitution and disregarding voters with contempt?

The political elite are out of control. A deputy minister can act viciously against employees and women and still get unreserved support from the leader of the ANCWL, who as a minister does everything possible not to appear before a parliamentary committee.

Another minister feels emboldened enough to run her department as a personal fiefdom and employ her uncle, relatives and friends in their multitude without following proper processes.

The president, who is centrally implicated in state capture, can chuckle about not being mentioned in the Gupta e-mails and feels confident enough to sanction MPs who voted against him. He who has had a hand in junking South Africa’s credit rating, plunging our country into a recession and causing 48 000 jobs to be lost in the first quarter and 113 000 more between April and June this year, remains unrepentant and unaccountable.

Economically, politically, educationally, socially and ethically it is the present ANC administration that is wreaking untold havoc with the utmost nonchalance and indifference.

The project of nation building has fallen by the wayside.

Racial bigotry, race baiting, violence, murder, hijacking and assassinations are creating fear in wide swathes of the nation.

The demise of the Scorpions has let loose the dogs of human ugliness on all of us. The rot that is spreading from the top is spreading down rapidly.

When a chunk of the ANC broke away to form Cope it did so to create an alternative to keep alive what was good in the ANC.

What they predicted has come to pass.

The better life that was promised to all and particularly to the very poor has been callously expropriated by the few.