Zuma lacks loyalty

ANC Phoenix constituency office administrator Stanley Moonsamy’s post that ANC “rats” who voted with the opposition parties against President Jacob Zuma in the recent motion of no confidence debate in Parliament – “We should put a tyre around their necks and burn them” – should be expelled from the party.

Many of us still have vivid memories of how alleged spies and traitors were “necklaced”, where a tyre was placed around a person’s neck, doused with petrol and set alight, killing them.

How did we reach such a situation where the ANC is calling for the necklacing of fellow comrades?

The motion of no confidence was not against the ANC but against the president of the party and of the country.

Zuma, the man empowered by the constitution to protect and promote the country’s interests, facilitated a silent coup. It is Zuma who made it possible for the Gupta brothers to get deep into the venous system of our body politic.

Under President Zuma’s watch our country, state owned enterprises and the Treasury have been donated to a foreign Indian family.

Zuma has engineered the weakening, undermining and destruction of institutions such as Parliament, the police, the intelligence services, the prosecuting authority and it also seems the Public Protector’s office.

The #GuptaLeaks have revealed that Zuma, together with the Guptas, have a plan to flee to Dubai should things go horribly wrong for them.

Should such a person continue to govern a people to whom he no longer owes total loyalty?

As an ANC member of long standing, I am disappointed that President Zuma was not toppled by the motion of no confidence which was conducted in secret.

RAMESH SUKDEO

Sydenham