Who must come after JZ?

NO amount of propaganda from those who want to unseat comrade Jacob Zuma will convince me that they are genuine in their call to save the ANC and South Africa.

Some of the very same people accusing the President of corruption are connected to companies responsible for charging the state exorbitant costs. Even the Eastern Cape has been corrupted as part of an even bigger project.

No guys, people must not double park. Yes, Zuma is corrupt and now filthy rich, but you must be honest. You want to remove him because you feel it is your turn to eat.

I thought Steve Tshwete was lying when he accused Cyril Ramaphosa, Mathews Phosa and Tokyo Sexwale of plotting to overthrow President Thabo Mbeki. But in 2008 the same three, joined by comrade Gwede Mantashe and Zuma, succeeded in moving Mbeki out. Now the same three, joined by Pravin Gordhan, Gwede Mantashe, Derek Hanekom, Aaron Motsoaledi and Jackson Mthembu, wanting to remove Zuma. Common here is big business and monopoly capital.

How I wish people were allowed to elect their real leaders, those with a focus on the people and the people’s needs.

Yes, Zuma must go, but the critical question is, who must come? I fear because all the proposed replacements are not for the people but for business, nor for the revolution or the people. Poor people must stand up and chart their own course before it’s too late. — Phendule Mbewu, Eastern Cape

I AM a proud South African and have always been. We have already suffered further downgradings from the rating agencies and are teetering on the brink of junk status. Unemployment is the worst since the ANC took control 22 years ago. President Jacob Zuma has yet again escaped impeachment.

Now, after three days of deliberation, all the ANC national executive committee can come up with is a pompous, repetitious lecture from the secretary-general Gwede Mantashe against the media.

Why is he complaining that the media is against him? Has he asked himself why?

Wake-up fellow South Africans and see the ANC for what they have become – self-serving individuals intent on their own enrichment! — Penny Poole, Kenton-on-Sea