The people will topple Zuma
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going directly to heaven, we were all going directly the other way.
In short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. What is happening to my country? We come from the most treacherous of histories.
Our people were oppressed, abused, violated and even murdered and yet, 21 years after all of this hate and degradation was forbidden, we sit at an impasse.
Now, President Jacob Zuma, I may not have voted for you, I may not support your political party, I may not support your political ideology, but when you took the oath of the office of the president on May 9, 2009 and on May 24, last year, you promised and affirmed that you would promote and advance the Republic of South Africa and devote yourself to its well-being regardless of my support for you or not. Now, Mr President, I know you are no fool. A fool does not win two elections. A fool does not get an entire political party to protect him.
A fool can’t have his private residence renovated for R246 million with taxpayers’ money and get away with it. So I’m forced to ask: Why did you lie? Why are you hurting us, your fellow South Africans, whom you promised to protect.
Mr President, please know this while you sit in your ivory tower and allow the masses to live in squalor, while you feast on rich fruits and the masses go hungry, while you enrich yourself and the poor gets poorer, know this: a revolution is awakening.
Nero played with his fiddle while Rome burnt down.
Know this, Mr President, we are tired, we will take action. The will of the people cannot be ignored. Apartheid, colonisation, imperialism, World War I, World War II, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin – in all other struggles, the people have always won.
So hear me when I say, Mr President, we will overcome you. You will not win.
Mr President, lead, or step aside. CARL POPHAIM Goodwood