Don’t be duped by corrupt, fake leaders

South Africa has never produced leaders who at least acknowledge that it is a modern economy that seeks modern interventions.

Broad-based black economic empowerment, affirmative action, employment equity and radical economic transformation are the very reasons why SA has collapsed.

Many former colonised countries are doing far better economically than their former colonisers. South Africans continue to hide their corrupt ways behind apartheid and colonialism. We have instead produced populists who claim to be for the poor, yet steal from the poor.

People like Julius Malema think that being anti-white makes them good leaders while others like Robert Mugabe are anti-white but continue to cause unspeakable suffering on their own citizens. Malema has the audacity to criticise Blade Nzimande yet forgets that every cent he has is ill gotten.

Malema, like Jacob Zuma, is a fake representative of the poor who wears cheap clothes only in parliament.

Malema, like Nzimande, is a fake socialist who drives fancy cars in the face of abject poverty. I expect Malema to understand those who, like him, once knowingly supported a corrupt man but now uses every opportunity to ridicule them because he has a supremacist mentality.

Malema is no better than Nzimande, the only difference between them is that he was forced out of the ANC.

Malema continues to instigate students to burn infrastructure and the poor to occupy land illegally. I shudder to imagine the levels of lawlessness that would reign under EFF rule!

They claim to hate colonised education yet graduate from it daily. By the time these students wake up from their slumber and realise just how much they have been duped, it will be too late.

Thandeka Khoza e-mail