NEC aims only to placate SA

AFTER the outcome of the conference at Mangaung, the top brass of the ANC elected its national executive committee (NEC) with a lot of fanfare. Heralding (they say) a new outlook for the country and an infallibility for its future.

But with its past record, the ANC and its massive administration have foundered miserably, making the nation tantamount to a basket case, where most facilities are non-existent or crippled through negligence.

Yet the ANC’s new NEC is set to right all those wrongs now wrecking our country. A mammoth task at the best of times, but a very troublesome one when this fresh NEC is being rigged to face lots of disgruntled and angry people.

Therefore, the expected platitudes made by the ever-optimistic President Zuma outlining his party’s goals will be those stock-in-trade promises to placate the poor. But none of this will be applicable when people go on living in shacks, have little or nothing to eat, or aren’t able to have any health care when they’re sick.

So, given the forecast of its NEC meeting, the ruling party and its chosen bigwigs will have to come up with some nifty solutions to satisfy the population.

Without this, South Africa represents a befuddled country on the cusp of a crisis. The ANC knows this. So do the electorate who voted them into power.

At the time, an emotional choice. But a salutary lesson where our rulers haven’t delivered the goods; and have no hope of ever doing so.

RITA EASTON

Pietermaritzburg