Virus masks ANC’s Zuma ghosts

The ANC, once the party in the struggle against a monster regime, finds itself struggling to keep itself together. And its leaders have become defensive with the realisation its power base, the people, has been fractured over the last decade.

The nation is paying the price for corrupt and incompetent leadership, not only during Jacob Zuma’s, pictured, rule, but under the present one.

The reason is abundantly clear. Zuma ghosts still exist, like the Nkosazana Dlamini-Zumas, and are preventing the party from dealing with past failures, taking up the Nelson Mandela mantle and again becoming the champions of the real-life strugglers.

The question is: why? There’s only one reason, and it’s found in the way prosecuting authorities are dealing with clear-cut cases of malfeasance by political figures.

Despite evidential proof at the Zondo enquiry, investigative articles in the media and not forgetting the damning report by the previous public protector implicating the former president, there hasn’t been a single case opened or arrest made.

All we get is the sound of silence.

Conclusion: the ANC will not and cannot allow the law to take its course because too many of its upper crust is directly or indirectly implicated.

Covid-19 has come at an opportune time for the fractured party and it’s using it to divert attention from its criminal and pathetic track record. It’s an easy guess it will “milk” the virus to postpone the coming municipal election because it realises it’s in for a rough ride.

So, sadly, we’ll have to put up with the comic characters in masks making a mockery of the situation.

Harry, George