Zuma is the naughty boy in the class
OUR PRESIDENT has been known to make disparaging remarks about “clever blacks” – the ones who think too much.
This is typical of the naughty boy in class who despises those classmates cleverer than he, preferring his stupid mates who make him feel better about himself – the birds of a feather.
On August 3, the provincial elections took place and then, alas, the clever blacks spoke for themselves.
They did not want to be counted among the mates of Zuma, being clever enough to understand that Zuma leads the party of the “stupid”.
Not all of them of course, mostly those who Zuma counts as his protectors; as well as those who count Zuma as their protector. One hand washes the other – with dirty water.
Zuma tried to fight the DA with slurs of racism and insults to the whites of South Africa. He said as much.
His comrades were also roped into these hypocritical utterances.
In the media, both social and otherwise, we clever South Africans get hammered with insults from the stupid side of the fence. Not only are the nasty “racist” whites insulted and scorned, but so are most of the blacks who vote for strong oppos- ition parties.
At the end of last month, the ANC political journal Umrabulo came out with a contribution by Lindiwe Sisulu, a member of their national executive committee.
Under the heading “Our arduous struggle against racism”, she wrote: “Just like the colonial yoke, we will probably be the last country to unshackle ourselves from this scourge.
“Racism in South Africa will not simply disappear because we all wish it to – it will have to be consciously unlearnt.
“The lack of self-confidence, coupled with an eagerness to please, prevents many of our people from ridding themselves of inferiority complexes even though they are empowered by the laws.
“The many Africans who have joined the ranks of the DA suffer from such a mental inferiority complex.
“We need to ask hard questions as to what it is that could be done to rescue them from this inferiority status that makes one seek tutelage from baaskap?
“White patronage and white tutelage is still firmly entrenched. The struggle to liberate our people from it must be sustained.”
This is the kind of garbage the ANC tries to stuff into the heads of its followers. It has few cards left to play, yet it insists on playing the colonialism and racism cards. The latest is this “inferiority complex” card.
Its conclusion is that those clever blacks who saw through the ANC’s bluster-curtain and voted for the DA are mentally inferior.
This leads them to assume that they are mentally superior, but nothing could be further from the truth. There may be a few of them that aren’t stupid, but those are the ones trying to unshackle their party from the influence of the naughty boy in class.
Sisulu makes mention of the “colonial yoke”. What yoke is that? Is it the yoke of all the universities, hospitals, schools, vehicles and roads that were built, and the many mines to extract the country’s wealth in metals?
Would these institutions have been set up over the years without the expertise of the colonialists?
This question must surely have been posed before; and probably rebuffed with a convenient formulated answer.
The “struggle continues” for the ANC. They are struggling to run the country properly, they are struggling to do what the electorate expects of them; and they are struggling to rid themselves of the elephant in the hut – the one that’s eating all the marulas.
Yet they carry on fooling themselves. Forrest Gump said: “Non-clever is what non-clever does.”
The only thing left for those vilified black people who think for themselves is to look ahead to the future and see there is just one political home for them.
Such a party welcomes those South Africans who see themselves as passionate, progressive and patriotic.
The other big parties are for those who do not want to move ahead, but prefer the struggles and memories of the past. Rob Bradfield