ANC shows it has no shame
THE ANC has proven in its latest deployment of Brian Molefe to parliament that the word shame means nothing within its ranks.
This latest Jacob Zuma attempt to capture National Treasury by positioning the ethically compromised Molefe signals that the ANC has lost the plot.
A few weeks ago, ANC secretarygeneral Gwede Mantashe, dismissed as baseless rumours that disgraced former Eskom chief executive Molefe was on his way to parliament.
Does this mean Mantashe lied to the public or did the ANC change its position on the matter overnight?
It is no longer a question of whether the captured president will appoint his stooge as finance minister but a matter of when. The fiscal discipline in the National Treasury under Pravin Gordhan has angered Zuma.
South Africans sent a clear message to the ANC in last year’s local government elections that the party’s days are numbered.
The Zuma tenderpreneurship faction must be worried that a power shift is imminent in 2019.
Gordhan is on his way out. We must not pretend that a cabinet reshuffle is not a takeover of National Treasury.
There is nothing that will stop a morally compromised Zuma from destroying this country – not even the ANC’s veterans council will save the party from going down. The presidency is too sophisticated a position for Zuma.
With pressure mounting on the ANC to address inequality, poverty and unemployment, Zuma will disrupt the economy under the disguise of radical transformation. Money will disappear from national treasury in the name of programmes to uplift blacks. This will be the beginning of the end of South Africa.
Zuma owes the Russians and the only way he can pay them back is through selling out our beloved country. How many times has he been told that nuclear energy is not financially viable?
The Nhlanhla Nene saga taught us that if there is no stability in government, the markets will react.
There is no country in the world that had three finance ministers in four days.
Also, the power struggle within the South African Police Service and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate is there for all to see.
The harassment of private investigator Paul O’Sullivan by the SAPS confirms Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s assertion that the government is at war with itself.
Phaswana Rofhiwa, e-mail