Despite blackouts, we see ANC is a sham

WHEN the lights go off at night, I fumble and stumble in the dark but I do not fall off into “slumberland”. My mind becomes alive and active as I can see clearly the cause of the power crisis that grips the country.

I see the wretched, roguish faces of Jacob Zuma, Lynne Brown, Malusi Gigaba, Brian Molefe, Dudu Myeni, Gavin Watson and all the fat, wormy ANC cadres feasting ravenously on our public funds.

I see Zuma, surrounded by his four wives and all his children, relaxing in his Nkandla mansion, giggling, “Hee, hee, heee.”

“They forced me out. Now let them suffer in the dark.” While all the homes in Nkandla are in darkness, Zuma’s mansion shines brightly in the pitch black darkness.

Apparently, he has a big generator funded by taxpayers’ money. Like the rest of us, I was hoodwinked by the ANC’S election talk. And now I feel stupid and ashamed that I was gullible enough to be taken in by the ANC.

But despite the rolling blackout plunging the country into hellish darkness, I can see clearly now.

The biggest con artist operating with impunity in the country is the ANC. For 25 long years, it fooled us into believing that it would deliver us from apartheid. But the stark reality is that it cannot govern. Another 25 years and we could end up like Zimbabwe.

The masses, too, have opened their eyes and can see what a sham the ANC is. They stood patiently in the cold, the rain and the sun, in long winding queues, to vote the ANC into power, only to be left licking the bones.

Let’s hope they keep their eyes open this time when they go to the polls in May. It would be suicidal to trust the ANC again.

Like raving mad King Lear, I mutter and curse the ANC, Eskom, Bosasa, the Guptas and all the fat, stinking rats gorging themselves in the public granary.

But this Roman orgy cannot last forever. The curse of millions of South Africans is upon you.

Call me fiendish, evil and abominable, but I wish to God that a new strain of the great bubonic plague that decimated London in the 17th century would evolve and spread terror among the ANC, striking down all the corrupt. THYAGARAJ MARKANDAN | Silverglen