Zuma worsened the plight of SA’S poor

THE article “Merger between two funeral groups” (Sunday Tribune, March 11), which reported that the National Funeral Practitioners Association (Nafupa) of SA honoured former president Jacob Zuma, refers.

Zuma, the man who was empowered by the constitution to protect and promote the country’s interests, had facilitated a silent coup. It was he who made it possible for the Gupta brothers to get deep into the system of our politics. Under his watch our country, state-owned enterprises and the Treasury were donated to a foreign Indian family.

To protect himself and the criminal network that surrounded him, Zuma engineered the weakening, undermining and destruction of institutions such as Parliament, the police, the prosecuting authority and the public protector’s office.

As an ANC member of long-standing, I was bitterly disappointed that he wasn’t toppled by a motion of no confidence, conducted in secret, as the former president did not care about our country and its people.

The biggest recipients of

Zuma’s corruption and looting of state coffers are ordinary citizens. His thieving of the economy worsened their plight. Under him the economy stagnated and went into reverse, preventing the poor from emerging from poverty.

Considering that during his term of office, Zuma brought in rogues and scumbags to the national arena and gave them power, it is not surprising he was honoured by this funeral association. The majority of people see members of Nafupa SA as criminals and thugs and not as businessmen because of the way they operate. They have been in and out of courts and have been intimidating and chasing contractors from sites.

LINDIWE DLAMINI

Sydenham