Vote out looters of public coffers

We are living in desperate and indeed severely testing times.

Politics as we know it is no longer conducted for the interests of the people but for certain elites who have made it their own business to fill their own stomachs, their families’ and their friends’.

They dare not breathe a word that their doings are borne out of self-interest and malice.

Whatever they are doing is for the poor of the poor – this is their chorus that is meant to pull wool over the eyes of the politically unsophisticated.

This has been a trend since time immemorial, but we have been of the view that the comrades, many of whom come from the poor, would ever be kind to their own.

Never have we ever thought they would eat and eat on behalf of the poor.

When the bulls fight it is the grass that suffers.

Unfortunately in politics the grass tends to be services and/or ordinary people who depend on those services.

Nothing has shown this lived reality more than the Zuma-Gupta axis that will go down as the most unforgettable, unforgivable and treacherous epoch in our democracy.

We ordinary people and our children will feel the effects of Jacob Zuma’s betrayal long after he is no more.

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality fiasco unfolding now has all the hallmarks of unbridled greed by the ever-salivating politicians.

This is a déjà vu of the putrid ANC misrule of the previous years when the municipality’s coffers were like ATMs for Zuma brown nosers.

The antics and theatrics of Mongameli Bobani, who laughingly swivels himself in a chair, demonstrate puerile imbecility that is far removed from political mellowness that is expected from the hallowed walls of the City Hall.

No mayor in a dream would show such revolting conduct.

In Xhosa tradition and indeed the civilised world over, we condemn, reject and indeed disown such unbecoming behaviour.

The people and indeed the poor on whose behalf the looting is carried out must raise their voice.

They must not allow thieves, pretenders and sycophants to carry out disgusting acts in their name.

The name of Nelson Man- dela Bay carries a pedigree that is rich in integrity, political capital and history to let it be sullied by political leeches whose only motives are to loot the resources that are meant for services for the downtrodden.

The voters of Nelson Mandela Bay and indeed of Mzansi have a chance of dealing with all the thieves who have stolen and continue to steal from them.

The power to vote is the most lethal weapon to deal with thieves.

The shenanigans ravaging our city should not be allowed to continue.

Only the voters, through by-elections, are the arbiters in this matter.

Only the voters can put an end to this nauseating circus of a council where even criminals have a free hand in decimating the council work.

The DA should not even consider legally challenging the ANC-EFF axis of evil.

Instead it should galvanise tremendous support of the electorate to continue rescuing the whole country from the jaws of the hyenas.

This much it owes the country.