Actually, ANC isn’t listening to the people
ON PAGE 4 of Wednesday’s Star, you have two stories that clash.
At the top of the page, you have an article headed: “Ministers accuse EFF of sleeping with the (DA) enemy’’.
Describing an opposing political party as “the enemy” reveals the ANC’s undemocratic ignorance – that’s not how democracy works.
Like “liberation’’ groups worldwide, the ANC has proved to be a truly terrible government.
And, as Julius Malema has so rightly pointed out, the ANC “slept with the enemy” when it joined up with the National Party, so which pot is calling the kettle black?
In the article, ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu said the ANC would work on its mistakes and listen to the people.
That doesn’t seem likely because on the same page, there’s an article headed “ANC rejects enquiry into the SABC”.
If ever an enquiry was needed it’s into the SABC, so its rejection of that is not listening to the people – it’s ignoring them, which is back to the old ANC arrogance.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the SABC’s chief who has been hauled over the coals by the public protector for telling lies about having a matric and then awarding himself huge salary increases and getting away with it, has been supported by the ANC in his unpopular decisions.
He refused to show violent protest footage (clearly because of the looming local government elections), then added his arrogant insistence on running 90 percent local content, thus cutting South African viewers off from the wider world.
Is the ANC determined to dumb down the population by cutting it off from the rest of the world?
Thank you, Hlaudi. I no longer watch the SABC at all and I imagine many of its advertisers will stop advertising once they realise the SABC is losing viewers.
The ANC speaks with a forked tongue when it says it is “listening to the people”. It has gone deaf when it comes to the SABC and its less-thanupright boss.
These days, I watch e-tv news and videos. With no Survivor or Amazing Race, there’s not much worth watching on the SABC. Parkview, Joburg