Critics of Zuma fear losing out in his revolution

Many supporters of President Jacob Zuma believe former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on state capture to be fatally flawed.

she purports to respect.

Madonsela has not awarded the Presidency and others affected by her report the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses.

She has not given them the opportunity to interact with the evidence or the allegations, and they were denied administrative justice.

Their version of events were not necessarily heard in the context of the audi alteram partem rule, without which no court would make any finding. Therefore, the public protector’s report is incomplete and flawed.

It is based on probabilities and pure speculation.

No real investigation was done. In fact, investigations are recommended, so we cannot draw any conclusion from the State of Capture report.

It is thus malicious for opposition parties to attempt to get the president to step down on the basis of the gossip that characterised the report.

Madonsela used to be a member of the ANC. Since Zuma defeated her master, comrade Thabo Mbeki, she has at all times sought to advance factional battles.

She was nominated as public protector by Zanele Mbeki, and has served the Mbekis — and her new handlers, white monopoly capital — well, resulting in her being rewarded with a lecturing post at Stellenbosch University.

This ties into co-ordinated efforts at regime change which resonate with those who fear losing power after the 2017 ANC national conference.

Many of the cadres of the revolution sold out and accepted shares in various white monopoly capital businesses as reward for not pursuing the return of the black Africans’ land and wealth.

We as black Africans have no freedom in our own land. The blacks in South Africa have, through the ANC, gained 62% of political sovereignty, 3% of economic sovereignty and 5% of security sovereignty. The rest remains in the hands of foreign and national white monopoly capital. ’AGENT’: Former public protector Thuli Madonsela has sought to promote factional battles in the ANC, the writer says

Efforts under Zuma’s leadership to explore the ocean economy, shale gas and oil, among others, and review mining law to turn the appropriation of mining rights into a prerogative of government, threaten the monopoly of local and international white capital, as do entering the lucrative arms industry in Middle East, the revamp of state-owned enterprises and the support of black industrialists.

Those who seek regime change fear Zuma.

If you examine big business, some companies side with Sipho Pityana, others with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, and yet others with Dumisa Ntsebeza. The list is long.

They cannot parade themselves as “messiahs” when they make it difficult for the ANC to take to practical conclusion its good intentions with the second phase of the national democratic revolution.

The judicial commission contemplated in the remedial action of Madonsela’s report must include all corruption allegations including looting of the new democratic South Africa by apartheid white agents.

It should also investigate Madonsela’s conduct regarding the leaking of confidential correspondence.

Zuma is not an enemy of the black Africans.

He is the enemy of those who have sought to undermine our revolution.

We are unequivocal and not apologetic at all. He is one of us. We shall defend him.

Mmoloki Saviour Cwaile is a provincial executive member of the ANC in North West, writing in his personal capacity

Efforts under his leadership threaten the monopoly of white capital