Fatal cracks in the ANC
AFTER almost three years of exhaustive evidence and cross-examination, some bordering on pathological lies and manipulative artifice, the state capture report is out – one of three instalments.
With the arson attack on the parliamentary building and the axe attack at the Constitutional Court, I sometimes wonder whether South Africans are finally losing their marbles. There has also been a fire at the Waterkloof Air Base.
What narrative is playing out here? Are our national key points under siege, or is this a carefully crafted enigma, calibrated to sow anarchy and to send a clear warning to the other side that they were playing with fire? Alternatively, is this the work of mad men bordering on paranoid schizophrenia?
We all know of the factionalism and internal stirrings within the ranks of the ANC. As the countdown looms to the ANC elective conference in December there are fatal cracks in the architecture of the organisation – an agglomeration of horror so great that many will crack under it.
There are too many snakes in the ANC’s nest of vipers. Word is out – choose a side or choose a tombstone.
The Asset Forfeiture Unit must ready themselves for mass annexures and when the final report comes out, those accused will be bailing out like rats from a sinking ship. The findings reveal that Tom Moyane, Brian Molefe and Dudu Myeni are apparently guilty of a range of offences and they must be prosecuted.
Chief architect and collaborator in this mess must be Jacob Zuma, who ran amok while at the helm. He made a competent board at SAA resign and replaced them with Myeni and crew who flew the state entity into unparalleled turbulence. These people suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a hypothetical cognitive bias stating that people with low ability at a task, overestimate their own ability.
And to add to the underbelly of bifurcation already evident, pretty and sassy Lindiwe Sisulu made the cardinal sin of attacking the judiciary and Constitution in an opinion piece. It was an anathema, a discredited strategy and an embarrassment. Raymond Zondo, who could be appointed as Chief Justice of SA, reprobated on national television her impertinent utterances and said it should not be allowed to stand. So the fissures are there.
KEVIN GOVENDER
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