IGNITING A FIRE IN THE POOL OF POLITICS

THE Nkandla fire pool saga was gobbledygook of note. In fact, the nation was taken for a ride in the worst way possible.

We really did not need ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula to “reveal” that the ANC used every trick in the book to protect Jacob Zuma regarding the upgrades to his private home in Nkandla.

Coincidentally, it took a provocation by Zuma, who is now the voluntary leader of the new uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, for Mbalula to angrily disclose that the ANC lied to protect him when he was the head of state.

There has been “excitement” since the Mbalula revelation at the weekend.

Even Build One SA leader Mmusi Maimane threw a punch of his own at Mbalula and the ANC on social media.

How Maimane must wish that 2024 was his time as DA leader, when he still had a voice. His chances of dislodging the ANC in the polls in the coming elections are slimmer than those of Zuma’s MK, or the South African Rainbow Alliance of former Joburg council speaker Colleen Makhubele... but that’s a matter for another day.

Getting to the gist of the matter, any political lot will use its powers and numbers to thwart attacks on its leader.

Zuma lost his grip on power after he was replaced as the ANC leader by his then-deputy Cyril Ramaphosa, who himself knows only too well about being shielded by his caucus in Parliament. Thus, the ANC sent Zuma packing on its own terms.

The ANC was never going to be dictated to by the DA, and Maimane at the time, on how to get rid of Zuma.

We therefore challenge Mbalula to make real, earth-shattering revelations on the Phala Phala “robbery” matter, and on why load shedding continues, corruption at State entities is still persisting and on a host of other pressing matters, and not put this on an 81-year-old Zuma who stands very little chance of returning to power anyway.