by Taj Hargey
In lower than a month, will nearly all of South Africa’s disgruntled inhabitants lastly chew the bullet and boldly transition from “Viva ANC, viva” to “Voetsek ANC, voetsek”?
What tangible progress has the boastful ANC – a previously revered liberation motion – really achieved in lowering historic inequities as soon as it assumed energy from the despised and tyrannical Afrikaner nationalists in 1994?
However some tentative steps over the previous three many years and its current indictment of Zionist Israel’s ugly Gaza genocide on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, it’s plain that the malevolent ANC has failed miserably in assembly any good governance metric. Certainly, the repugnant ANC has bequeathed South Africa’s long-suffering individuals a rising litany of solely preventable disasters.
Other than blatant political corruption, egregious state looting, hideous cadre deployment, rampant police ineptitude, moronic monetary mismanagement and wilful financial collapse, the ANC has additionally presided over ineffectual regulation and order, uncontrolled unlawful immigration, brazen social polarisation, overt racial discrimination in addition to unconstitutional ethnic preferencing.
As well as, the venal ANC is primarily answerable for the shameful decline normally instructional and well being requirements. Irresponsible ANC functionaries have sidelined God and faith in colleges and have foisted fashionable woke propaganda upon pupils and fogeys alike. On prime of this, the discredited ANC has cavalierly gifted extraordinary South Africans not solely terrifying criminality, galloping gender-based violence and outrageous reverse racism, but in addition floundering state-owned enterprises, deplorable fiscal reverses, recurrent foreign money depreciations and unprecedented mass unemployment.
Clearly, these and different shortcomings are aggravated by an abject ANC’s obtrusive negligence and administrative incompetence. This ANC-driven stagnancy is illustrated by incessant energy cuts, frequent water disruptions, ineffective service supply, deteriorating transportation, worsening housing shortages and a headlong descent into full scale banana republic standing. Furthermore, the ANC has calculatedly broken and diminished South Africa’s key infrastructural belongings and sources. All of the whereas plainly unsuitable ANC cupboard members have squandered or misappropriated public funds for private acquire. Sadly, the cancerous ANC management is wholly unperturbed because it drags South Africa again to the bush! Sure, the terrible ANC is detached and nonchalant that below its 30-year watch even tiny resource-scarce Singapore’s financial system is now a lot greater with much better progress prospects than that of giant mineral-rich South Africa. That is past scandalous!
Certainly, the ANC’s vile kleptocracy has undoubtedly tousled virtually all the things in South Africa. Just about all its prime brass in addition to decrease rating ANC minions – along with their legal accomplices – have illicitly lined their pockets, changing into tremendous rich on the expense and detriment of the poor and the downtrodden. The ANC’s horrendous mis-governance is highlighted by its ideological obsession with its untenable three M coverage:
◆ No Meritocracy
◆ No Administration
◆ No Upkeep
With such weird governing fixations, is it not stunning that the wretched ANC has solely regressed this nice land, stymied discernible financial improvement and cruelly widened the poverty hole by means of its nepotistic BEE (Black Elitist Enrichment) technique. Keep in mind that the ANC’s self-perpetuating clique doesn’t lengthen real black financial empowerment to the deprived and destitute! However solely to themselves! Actually, the ANC’s plutocratic hierarchy (led by a billionaire blunderer like Rama Couch) and opportunist tenderpreneurs dwell off the fats of the land whereas the impoverished majority sinks into ever deeper deprivation. The rapacious ANC can rightfully take full credit score in lowering South Africa to probably the most unequal place on earth (in accordance with the World Financial institution). It’s totally disgusting that the boastful ANC’s oft-touted so-called ‘triumphs’ have solely created better inequalities in right now’s South Africa, which are for probably the most half, far graver, a lot worse than these below repulsive apartheid. This isn’t simply pathetic however merely inexcusable!
So, the burning query for patriotic voters on election day is:
Do the bungling ANC parasites deserve one other 5 years to destroy the nation additional? Can a leopard change its spots? Or is it time for fed up residents to assist a dynamic proficient group of reliable technocrats and accountable politicians? Clearly, such a realistic re-alignment and clear coalition will definitely be higher, extra useful than something the rotten ANC gives. And, most pertinently, this contemporary management will be taught from and actively counteract the ANC’s poisonous legacy by correctly steering this doubtlessly affluent nation to a secure, simply, equal and actually non-racist future for everybody.
So, on Might 29, 2024 will betrayed and battered South Africans ultimately sever their emotional umbilical cords with Mandela’s celebration and bravely transfer on from “Viva ANC, viva” to “Voetsek ANC, voetsek”?
That is the stark selection and supreme actuality going through South African residents within the upcoming elections.
* Taj Hargey, PhD, is the founding father of the Open Mosque in Cape City, is Imam on the Oxford Islamic Congregation and provost of the Oxford Institute for British Islam. He shares his time between Cape City and Oxford.
** The views expressed right here should not essentially these of Unbiased Media.
Cape Argus
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