Immorality at play as ANC leaders jostle for positions

The claim by former president Jacob Zuma that President Cyril Ramaphosa is a CIA spy is outrageous and unsubstantiated.

Over the past 30 years many prominent leaders were accused of being CIA and MI6 agents, allegations that were proven to be outright lies and crude acts of blatant disinformation.

A sinister war of political attrition is in full swing; its devious aim is to eliminate leaders of moderation. It is one aspect of political immorality that has yet to prompt the kind of moral outrage that should unmask the lies and deception in the current political atmosphere.

South Africans are witnessing an ugly battle for political supremacy as leaders jostle for pole position at the 2022 ANC elective conference. The attack on leaders is tantamount to character assassination.

As the race for 2022 rolls on, why hasn’t there been condemnation of leaders who lie? Is it that people are ignorant they are being lied to?

Unfounded allegations are levelled to discredit public figures. Slander, distortion, fabrication and sophistry are the tools of the trade.

Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, believed that the bigger the lie, the more convincing.

SA politics is now dominated by immorality, where good norms and political values have been discarded.

Farouk Araie, Actonville, Benoni