Zuma likely to go the way of Mbeki
AS THE years go by, it becomes clearer that in 1994, the country voted for Nelson Mandela as an individual. He could have been the president of any political party and he would have got the vote on merit alone.
But Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and now Jacob Zuma rested on their laurels, not realising that with power comes responsibility.
Their promises of free education, free housing, free hospitals and work for all have turned out to be empty.
Lack of service delivery has exploded into numerous little unconnected civil insurrections.
Put them together and you have a civil war in your hands, Zuma.
The entitlement created by the vacuous ANC’s promises and confirmed by our priapic president has manifested in the latest barbaric attack on our centres of higher learning.
The ANC is not interested in education. A look at the track record of our minister of basic education suffices to confirm it.
Our future leaders go from her, poorly prepared, over to the minister of higher education, who has no clue as to what to do in the present chaos.
Zuma, as usual, remains silent.
Zuma would do well to put his ear to the ground: the ANC has lost control of the four major cities in the country.
The next step can easily be the loss of the majority in Parliament.
It is evidently clear that personal power is what matters to Zuma above all else although I sense that the ANC is starting to be concerned about the future of the party.
When they come to realise their future is guaranteed only if Zuma is out of the way, they will take the necessary steps to free themselves of him, in the same way that they did with Mbeki. Mariano Castrillón Greenside, Joburg