OPINIONISTA: Where is the ANC’s Western Cape Premier candidate? By Ryan Smith
A provincial government in South Africa begins and ends with the premiere. The Premier exercises the executive authority, appoints the provincial ministers and assigns their powers and functions, and is responsible for implementing provincial legislation.
It was reported earlier in 2018 that the ANC was expected to reveal its Western Cape Premier Candidate on Sunday, 6 January. The day came and went, and yet the party was still languishing over its provincial list, the first of which was nullified by the party’s top leadership after several allegations of corruption and membership fraud came to light.
So what, or rather who, does the ANC hope will win the hearts and minds of the people of the Western Cape? There are rumours of the imminent return of Ebrahim Rasool, former Western Cape premier fired by his own party and alleged to have paid journalists by means of cash in brown envelopes to slate his opponents and write stories favourable to the ANC. A charming candidate indeed.
Quite ironic, considering that Ebrahim Rasool told the Cape Town Press Club in February that “if you punish the ANC at the polls, then you punish the country”, a statement dripping with sanctimonious self-glorification and the smug self-praise synonymous with ANC politicians.
Faiez Jacobs makes the assumption that Western Cape residents, and South Africans at large, have forgotten about the ANC’s marriage with Bell Pottinger which deliberately stirred up hatred in our society by pitting races against each other – a campaign entirely endorsed by the ANC, while Cyril Ramaphosa was right-hand man to the president, mind you. But, of course, the voters are too stupid to remember such.
Not to mention forcing Parliament to rise for a three-month-long recess so he could try to unite the ANC in almost every other province. It can’t be easy when provincial conferences are labelled “festivals of chairs” and the dismissal and reappointment of premiers and provincial leaders happen on a weekly basis at the passing of a court judgment.
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