OPINIONISTA: Will the Concerned Elders ever learn? By Paul Hoffman PaulHoffmanSC
Last week a group of Concerned Elders in the ANC wrote an open letter which they addressed to “ANC Patriots” in which they appealed to the numerous apparently and allegedly rotten apples to get out of the box marked “party list” or that they be removed by the leadership.
The last thing that patriotic folk need is an underground or, heaven forbid , overtly Zuma-led Sixth Parliament. First, the state was unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ms Kuzwayo was raped. That does not mean she was not raped; it only legally signifies that the accused was entitled to the benefit of the presumption of innocence because his version was reasonably possibly true.
The truth about the second issue is universally known and was blithely ignored both at Polokwane and Mangaung.The Elders are all decent people. Their concerns, however belated they may be, are well-founded. Their decision to express them in public is admirable. The lack of response from anyone who is anybody in the ANC is deplorable. Attention has now fallen on the astute take on the party list which Omri Makgoale has published.
It is now emerging that perhaps one-third of South African Gross Domestic Product – in other words over 30% of the total South African economic “pie” – has been wasted, stolen and consumed by grand corruption, state capture and kleptocratic crime in our young democratic country, mainly during the Zuma years.
If those resounding words do not suffice, the opening salvo, in a later case on the same topic, fired by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in November 2014, should:All South Africans across the racial, religious, class and political divide are in broad agreement that corruption is rife in this country and that stringent measures are required to contain this malady before it graduates into something terminal.
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