CORRUPTION, FAILING ECONOMY COULD RUIN ANC’S 2019 ELECTION CHANCES

THE Stuttafords empire is crumbling, General Motors is leaving our shores, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe will be leaving his post at the end of the year.

Under these circumstances the ANC will most certainly be humiliated at the polls in 2019. South Africa will then be in uncharted waters. The possibility of a civil war will become a grim reality.

We are in turmoil politically, economically, financially and socially.

We are on political-life support, time is running out, we have only two years to sort out our immense problems. Failure to deliver will surely result in absolute chaos. The task of society must be to totally eradicate corruption at every level. Corruption exists everywhere and in many different forms – it has become a contest nationwide.

The basic inception of corruption started with our political leaders who have already done great damage to our nation. Whether one accepts the fact or not that politicians and senior civil servants are responsible for the spate of corruption or for the downfall of prosperity in our country, the glaring evidence is there for posterity to judge us.

Corruption knows no political party boundaries. You see it in every sphere of our society.

Fervent adherence to unbridled greed by the political leadership has created leadership graft in all levels of society. This has enabled corruption to germinate, fester and proliferate.

History attests that pervasive corruption is oppressive of the masses and if left unchecked will certainly lead to anarchy.

As long as there is pervasive corrup- tion, millions of South Africans will be condemned to agonising poverty and as long as the masses continue to suffer, our democracy will remain fragile.

It is an incontrovertible fact that all forms of corruption are prevalent in South Africa. Irrespective of the type of corruption, the act involves misuse of power, which is both bad and illegal.

The disease has metastasised to afflict every aspect of our society.

There are subterranean political tensions in South Africa today partly as a result of ravaging corruption. We need selfless competent leaders to totally eradicate corruption.

Hopefully the next government,will carry out their mandate,to create a better South Africa.

Farouk Araie