“This moment in South African politics is a watershed: Will impunity be tolerated or reversed?” Opinion | AmbassadoRasool
The scenes of looting, destruction and apparent protest witnessed after the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma lead to one point: the showdown in South Africa was inevitable and necessary from the moment we realised the depth of corruption and state capture and that our leaders needed to be held accountable as a precondition for renewing the African National Congress and revitalising our country.
The ANC’s Polokwane Conference was the political fountainhead that gave impunity a political form – populism: to die or kill for a leader; to malign a woman for reporting rape; to seduce the politically restless and economically vulnerable with Radical Economic Transformation all while carrying out the most heinous acts of corruption.
Jacob Zuma ascended to power with a motley coalition of contradictory forces stapled together by common injury. The ANC was not just morally compromised, but organisationally re-peopled by the avaricious and strategically re-purposed to serve the state capture agenda. When their high priest, Jacob Zuma, was jailed, and they feared they would soon follow, the populists attempted a last and desperate showdown. They lit a powder keg of looting and destruction — driven through criminal violence — among already devastated people, while other operatives sought to devastate economic infrastructure, like the ports and refineries — an attempt at counter-revolutionary violence.
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