SA will rue day it voted DA into power

LAST year saw the ANC lose control of the only city in the world named after our international icon and one of the greatest statesmen, Tata Nelson Mandela. This is a national catastrophe, the implications of which residents of Nelson Mandela Bay seem to be blasé about.

First, let’s consider the reasons for this and, second, what the implications for our political future are. What made comrade O R Tambo say: “It is the ANC that will destroy itself”?

He understood that the broad church which was the congress alliance would ultimately fall victim to those inside the alliance who would fall prey to imperialism and monopoly capital. He understood that in a capitalist-dominated world the balance of forces would work against the congress alliance.

Last year, with the Save South Africa campaign, we witnessed the evolution of Tambo’s prophesy. ANC leaders deployed since 1994 should be brutally honest and admit collective responsibility for the current crisis.

If one draws a timeline, the current crisis started with the “Brutuses” in the ANC forming COPE. What we are witnessing currently in the ANC is reflected in Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar.

Without much imagination we can link the current leaders in the Save South Africa campaign with the relevant characters in Shakespeare’s epic play. Sipho Pityana owes his success to deployment by the ANC.

Today, as part of the monopoly capital elite, he is using the media and public platforms to promote regime change. Divide and rule tactics on the basis of the corruption bogy is the strategy being used against the ANC.

South Africa will rue the day that the divided black voters delivered key metros to the National Party dinosaur party now called the DA. Cry our beloved country (as per the title of the Alan Paton book).

South Africans need to love and embrace one another, develop a new patriotism and stop the Zumaphobia this year. The attitudes of the DA last year were counterproductive to social cohesion and reconciliation.

Let’s unite and build our glorious motherland this year. A change in attitude will determine our altitude.

A positive attitude is what is needed in our great nation. The propaganda of regime change is no solution.

D R Galloway, Nelson Mandela Bay