Buck stops with Zuma

THE calling for the Gauteng Premier David Makhura to resign or be axed is nothing else but ANC faction infighting.

We are not surprised at the Gauteng ANC Youth League’s selective demand.

If their demand is genuine and honest, they must go further to demand President Jacob Zuma and his entire government be fired – the buck stops with Zuma.

Congress of the People (Cope) is saying it can’t be business as usual after the shocking report of the Health Ombudsman regarding the 94 mentallyill patients who died between March and December. This is very sad.

Zuma, Makhura and Qedani Mahlangu must be criminally prosecuted. Cope says they must all be charged with capable homicide.

We say the time has long passed where only the foot soldiers are blamed.

This happened during the apartheid government and we must never allow it to happen in a democratic government.

Zuma must hang his head in shame that so many people have died on his watch.

Zuma presided over the Marikana massacre, the cold-blooded murder of Andries Tatane and many others, who died demanding their basic human rights.

How does he sleep at night after knowing that the most vulnerable died of hunger and dehydration?

In South Africa, where there is no scarcity of resources, we don’t believe Zuma can be at peace with himself.

Cope believes that this investigation is far from over.

The Hawks must step in and investigate the NGOs involved, carry out lifestyle audits of Qedani, probe the owners of these facilities and all government officials that were directly involved to establish if corrupt activities cost the 94 their lives.

The president’s silence on this major tragic crisis is deafening.

As usual he has failed to lead from the front.

Zuma must go.