His blessees want blesser Zuma to stay

THERE is a sordid phenomenon called “blessers”.

It was exposed not long ago by eNCA’s investigative programme

There we saw proud “blessers” and “blessees”, men and women who have taken prostitution to the most glamorous level.

Blessers are rich men, usually married, who finance the expensive lifestyle of a concubine (blessee) who is ever-ready to give sex whenever lust commands a blesser.

We learnt from the eNCA documentary that there are even agents who specialise in managing a pool of women who are always waiting to be “blessed”.

One such agent was asked if he was proud of the “work” he was doing. His answer was that he was not in the business of promoting morals, as he was not a priest.

This agent, the proud fixer of people’s ungovernable sexual appetites, is interested only in money. Whether his “work” destroys families, or converts humans into soulless animals, or turns South Africa into Sodom and Gomorrah, the agent does not care – as long as money flows.

When the Good Book says the love of money is the root of all evil, it is as if the Lord had blessers, blessees and their agents in mind – people whose souls money has corrupted beyond repair.

This kind of soul-hollowing love of money does not manifest itself only in the world of commercial sex; it also finds expression in other more “dignified” branches of life.

Two weeks ago South Africans were shocked to read reports of a meeting between the leadership of the Black Business Council (BBC) and President Jacob Zuma.

Apparently, the BBC went to Zuma to ask him not to sign a bill into law, a bill which would, apparently, jeopardise the dodgy moneymaking schemes of members of the BBC.

Instead of focusing only on the bills that interfere with their love of money, the BBC leaders veered out of their way to plead with Zuma not to resign. This truly is shocking.

In the face of overwhelming evidence that Zuma is harming our national interest, these BBC lovers of money said: “Mr President, please don’t go.”

This is the same president on whose watch more than R240-million of taxpayers’ money was poured into a dark hole called Nkandla.

It is the same man who cost our country more than R500-billion by firing an honest finance minister.

It is the very dodgy president who has been found guilty of violating our constitution, the foundational law that makes it possible for members of the BBC to make money in an orderly polity.

All sober people can see that under Zuma, South Africa has been going down. The space here is not enough to list all the sins Zuma has committed against South Africa. But the BBC says: “Mr President, please don’t go.”

The behaviour of the BBC is not different from that of the whiteowned companies that buttressed apartheid. Given that apartheid leaders were white, these companies at the time felt a racial-solidaristic urge to say: “Mr Apartheid, please don’t go.”

In short, the BBC leaders who asked Zuma not to go and the white businessmen who supported apartheid are the same; they all support their man in power, however immoral the leader is.

Week in and week out our ears are pelted with stories of public money being looted from government and state-owned enterprises by the Guptas and other Zuma associates.

The public image of Zuma as a looter-in-chief in what looks like a perfect lootocracy (rule by looters) is well entrenched. Thus, those who ask him not to go automatically earn the kind of odium that all scoundrels must receive.

It would seem that the BBC has joined the Gupta-sponsored campaign whose outspoken champions have been disguising themselves under transparent subterfuges like “decolonisation institute” and “black first, land first”.

These hired agents have been trying very hard to package and sell lootocracy in South Africa as a transformation project, thus projecting the looter-in-chief as a victim of white racism.

We are called upon to hound the Oppenheimers and the Ruperts, and to leave the Guptas alone.

South Africans are not fools. They have long seen through the duplicity of the Guptas’ hired black mercenaries who go around opening cases against the public protector, and use land and decolonisation as a ploy.

Black people must remember Matthew 7:21, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven”.

Indeed, not everyone who says “Black, Black”, is a defender of black people.

While the jury is still out on whether or not BBC leaders are in the pockets of the Guptas, the miasma of a sordid love of money is pungent in their call for Zuma not to go.

The question is: how different is the BBC from blessers, blessees and their agents – the perverts whose morality is a rotten cocktail of money, sex and bling?