‘Stop these thieves’

Ex-Youth Congress leader and businessman Mkhuseli Jack accuses the ruling party of using the country to enrich its leaders and foreign fortune-seekers, calling the ANC Ace Magashule’s vanguard for corruption.

Ex-Youth Congress leader says it uses SA to enrich leaders and foreign fortune-seekers.

Former United Democratic Front and ex-Port Elizabeth Youth Congress leader Mkhuseli Jack says the ANC is “destroying the country piece by piece” but people keep on voting for it like citizens did under Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and in South Africa under apartheid.

In a hard-hitting Facebook post at the weekend, Jack, who is a businessman, used revolutionary language that could have been regarded as “treasonous” under apartheid, saying the ANC and its corruption must be stopped on its tracks.

“We must start to discuss within our homes, households, families and communities how we are going to drastically stop this vanguard of thieves. If we do nothing, we just fold our arms and hope nothing will happen, we must rest assured that the neglect will end in genocidal proportions never seen on earth,” Jack said.

“Say what you like, the ANC has and is destroying SA piece by piece. Yes, people can cast their vote for their own destruction, they did it in Nazi Germany under a political maniac, Adolf Hitler, people adored him. Their support for him was fanatical.

“In Fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini was with millions of Italians when he embarked on political madness. DF Malan, the apartheid architect was equally popular as he legislated racial discrimination,” he said.

Jack said the ANC it had gone off the rails.

“The ANC is not pursuing a public good, not even for its own members. It uses SA to enrich its leaders and foreign fortune-seekers. All that is done in the name of the poor. The ANC is Ace Magashule’s vanguard for corruption,” Jack said.

Jack was a fearless youth league leader in Port Elizabeth and wellknown anti-apartheid activist, being harassed and detained by apartheid security forces.

“If this current version of ANC prevails and continues to win the hearts and minds of our people, I am afraid, SA is going to turn into dust soon,” he said.

“We cannot ignore what is obvious around us and continue to blame foreigners, or corporates as the causes of our problems.

“Accountability of reining in everyone rests with us. We cannot outsource that responsibility.

“If we do nothing, we just fold our arms and hope nothing will happen, we must rest assured that the neglect will end in genocidal proportions never seen on earth,” Jack continued.

The terrible scenario could be avoided if “we revert to the historical mission of building a united, nonracial and functioning democracy.”

Fundamental building blocks for that mission will be to cherish talent, knowledge and values.

“South Africa needs new leaders, strategies, ideas and the use of appropriate technologies that are in harmony with our political, economic and social needs.

In a follow up post yesterday, Jack said he still stood by his earlier post.

“My analogy and scenarios can only be proven wrong or right by empirical evidence, not by misplaced sentiments,” he said.

All that is done in the name of the poor

It was a “blast from the past” when anti-apartheid struggle stalwart Mkhuseli Jack fired a broadside at the ANC, saying it was “destroying the country piece by piece”... but people keep on voting for it. The former United Democratic Front and ex-Port Elizabeth Youth Congress leader added: “We must start to discuss within our homes, households, families and communities how we are going to drastically stop this vanguard of thieves.”

His equally outspoken prophecy for the future was: “If this current version of ANC prevails and continues to win the hearts and minds of our people, I am afraid SA is going to turn into dust soon.”

Jack’s tirade, delivered in a Facebook post, is evidence of a growing anger among those who fought apartheid, that the ANC – despite the best intentions of Cyril Ramaphosa to root out corruption – is betraying the ideas for which people fought.

Yet, sadly, the truth is that the majority of South Africans continue to vote the party into power for two reasons. First, the ANC will always be the organisation which brought “liberation” to the black people of South Africa… and is seen as the one which can improve the lives of ordinary people (even when this is more perception than reality). Second, no opposition political party has so far offered a credible alternative to the promises of a “better life for all”, which is the anchor of the ANC’s political propaganda.

It was telling that, at the height of corruption allegations against a significant number of its top leaders, the ANC was nevertheless able to acquit itself well in the by-elections around the country last week. It took seats away from the DA in DA strongholds and towered over the EFF in the black political stakes.

Ominously for South Africa, that situation doesn’t look likely to change soon.