Reality vs the ANC

Reality vs the ANC
by Wayne G
2010-03-08 09:30

After reading Max du Preez's column titled What has become of the ANC? I was overcome with that all too familiar feeling of despair and sadness in what our country has become. It is not a melancholy brought on through wishing apartheid still existed, but sadness from what the ANC have done, or haven't done for our country. For the record I don't wish for a second that the Nationalists were still in control, but I do wish someone would stand up to the ANC and challenge them on their systematic destruction of South Africa before we all vanish into the abyss of Africa's sewage system.

What has become of the ANC and do they really care? Max was once a vocal supporter of the ANC and like many other ANC supporters have become disenchanted in our new gangster-style leadership. The poor are getting poorer, the taxed more taxed, the sick sicker and the corrupt more corrupt. There is nothing worth celebrating, yet the ANC walk around with an arrogance that is hard to miss. What delusions of achievement are they and their supporters seeing that we aren't?

The hard working everyday man in the street like you and I have to carry the tax burden to bank roll the lavish lifestyles and tastes of the once humble down to earth ANC. Every year we seem to take home less while we watch the government in their top of the range luxury motorcades scream passed us on the highway, or watch clown Malema spraying R1 000 a bottle Mo?t all over himself and his posse. The dissociation of the ruling party from society shows how far removed from reality they actually are. The last few remaining drops then disappear down his "talk left walk right throat". I wonder how this makes the average South African feel.

Like Max, I live in a modest house, have an average paying job that leaves me little more than small change after expenses and like most young South Africans my two biggest beneficiaries are the bank and Sars. Now if the ANC is upsetting me I can only imagine what people living on the banks of the Juskei River in a shack feel like.

More than a free t-shirt

Yet somehow those very same shack dwellers when it comes to voting time re-elect these power drunk buffoons. Their false promises are swallowed and believed whole heartedly again. It is as if it's the first time they are hearing it and all previous memory of poor service delivery, broken promises and zero progress are erased the minute they enter the voting booth. They then return to their lives of squalor with false hope wearing their free t-shirt. Surely the impoverished want more than a free t-shirt for their loyalty?

The following summer their shacks are washed away under the bridge again, the very same bridge that the government who promised to help them drives over every day. In Malema's Limpopo they get to watch their shack, the bridge and road get washed away all together. What a scene that must be.

Massive feasts and "conferences" are constantly bankrolled by the tax payer for the hungry public servants who work so hard for us. Their ravenous taste for fine dining and all the associated luxuries goes unmatched. These guys honestly have conferences about conferences. They only dine at the best restaurants, drink the best whiskey and the finest French champagne at R1 000 per bottle. Mr Malema even openly admitted on third degree that he had indulged a little too much in the good stuff and had subsequently gained some weight.

As tax payers we should see this as an insult to our hard earned money that is being wasted on filling pockets instead of potholes. I guess apartheid can be blamed for this, from the other side of the fence the masses saw what beautiful possessions the white man had and where they lived in comparison to where they lived, and they associated that with success and achievement.

But, during apartheid, most of the whites with money still earned it through hard work. They were prejudicially favoured, but they still worked hard. I remember my father slaving away seven days a week to keep the ball rolling. Now it is all about image, hard work is no longer the root to the money, what a dangerous precedent this is creating. Soon the very same people who wanted what the whites had will want what a few elite nepotistic blacks have. The ANC's new slogan should be: "the highest personal gain for the least effort".

Let me stress that it's alright getting rich if you earned that money through hard honest work, but the way some of these guys are procuring lucrative contracts and carrying out incompetent work while lining their pockets is appalling. Every tax payer should be outraged, black people pay tax too, so this isn't a white thing or a black thing, it's an abuse on all of us, an abuse on our trust and is paramount to money laundering. They take our honestly earned taxes and turn it into self enrichment schemes quicker than we can earn it.

The ANC through their propaganda vocalised by people like Malema and tolerated by the ANC lead people to believe that the whites are generally racist and resentful of majority rule. In the words of Malema "they don't want to see "black diamonds shine". According to the ANC, the 250 white families refusing to pay rates and taxes due to nonexistent service delivery is the cause of our roads falling apart. This is complete BS, I have many black friends, who work damn hard, who have white friends that also work hard and we as a group don't share this sentiment. It is straight up propaganda that is used to cast blame on a minority group and a perfect smoke screen which allows the ANC to operate in the shadows.

I can understand people voting for the ANC in 1994, as they were the face of the liberation struggle, but the face has turned, it no longer smiles on the people, it is just a big hungry mouth that is either making noise or consuming money quicker than we can make it. We need to somehow get into the minds of the ANC supporters, that their ANC and its vision is not their vision anymore. They are a means to an end. No more, no less.

Simple solution

It is rather apt how the ANC's freedom charter designed all those years ago with every good intention by the real pioneers of freedom has mutated into a Mafia styled rule of law. Somehow the meaning of freedom has mutated into "let's use our freedom to all get rich and to hell with the rest". A perverse philosophy that is blatant common practice in today's government. How do we overcome this deviation from the freedom charter, a deviation from ethics and morality being waved in front of us with a seemingly untouchable attitude?

The solution is simple. We need a fresh new party with a new colour blind leader with a transparent genuine agenda. We deserve it. Not a "white leader" for the whites or a "black leader" for the blacks but a leader who represents the values of all honest hard working South Africans. Not the DA that yaps like a poodle with no bite, or Cope who is imploding and full of disgruntled ex ANC members, or the ANC who has by every quantitative and qualitative comparison failed dismally.

We need a leader who is more concerned about the poor than self enrichment, someone who is honest and committed to our country as a whole, who doesn't allow people like Malema to poison society with his lies and deceit. The time has come for us to vote with our brains not our hearts for the sake of our children. It is in the best interests of the ANC to subliminally promote prejudice. It's their main propaganda weapon to control the masses and keep them suspicious.

A reassuring fact of history is nothing lasts forever and as long as the government continue to be their own worst enemy a new more pragmatic form of leadership will soon take their place. In this day and age, good governance is not about flashy cars, expensive designer labels, ignorance, corruption, nepotism and pathetic excuses it's about the people and the needs of the people, community and South Africa as a whole. The government stealing from us is like a father stealing from his children. It's immoral, and quite frankly the greatest sin of all. Let's say: no more South Africa. NO MORE!

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