Publication: Cape Times Issued: Date: 2007-11-14 Reporter: R Brown

Give Zuma a Chance

 

Publication 

Cape Times
Date

2007-11-14
Reporter R Brown

Web Link

 www.capetimes.co.za

 

Letters

All South Africans, black and white, should be careful about regarding Thabo Mbeki as our country's saviour. He is the greatest threat to this country and to Africa.

Mbeki had the power to give hundreds and thousands of HIV-sufferers life-prolonging ARV treatment, but his arrogance has contributed towards the deaths of many, and the creation of a generation of Aids orphans.

Because of Mbeki's dismal performance in the HIV fight these orphans can't play in the park, but are forced to find work, even in prostitution.

Today, Mbeki continues his denialism and has yet to go on radio or television to apologise for the untimely deaths. At least Jacob Zuma had the courage to go on television and beg the nation to forgive him after his rape trial.

Mbeki's continued support for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe should serve as a wake-up call to all of us. Like Mugabe, Mbeki clearly has no intention of giving up his ANC leadership.

I am convinced that once Mbeki is re-elected as ANC president, faceless persons in the ANC will call for amendments to our constitution to give Mbeki another term.

Finally, let us not pass judgment on Zuma.

Let the law take its course.

We should rather be concerned about Mbeki's refusal to launch an independent investigation into the multi-billion rand arms deal and his protection of controversial national police commissioner Jackie Selebi.

I urge Helen Zille, Patricia de Lille, Bantu Holomisa and all other opposition leaders to put more pressure on the president to launch a full-scale investigation into the arms deal, because we have not even reached the tip of the iceberg in uncovering the truth and full extent of the corruption involved.

I call on all delegates to use their votes wisely and ensure that Zuma takes up his rightful place at Luthuli House after the national conference.

And should Mbeki's puppets in the National Prosecuting Authority decide to charge Zuma again, the law should be allowed to take its course.

Surely our constitution allows for even the president of the ruling party being charged and brought before the courts, so I really cannot understand the urgency in getting Zuma charged before the ANC's national conference takes place.

R Brown
Mitchells Plain

With acknowledgements to R Brown and Cape Times.


*1       Even the president of the country can be charged.

Do it.


The most delicious outcome of the Arms Deal investigation will be that the ex deputy president of the country gets charged and convicted for corruption, allowing the country to get a new independent president who then allows the ex president to be properly investigated and convicted for firstly, unlawful conduct *2 in the Arms Deal acquisition and secondly unlawfully interfering with its original investigation *3.


*2      Conduct in contradiction of the Constitution is surely unlawful.

The Constitution stipulated acquisition that is fair and competitive, inter alia.

Meeting the French criminals Thomson-CSF on multiple occasions to stitch up and guaranteeing them *3 the Corvette Combat Suite deal must therefore surely be unlawful.


*3      That this happened is recorded clearly and unambiguously in court-quality documentary form in possession of the NPA.

Don't believe? See below. Note Para. 4 and "Fax chiffre" - the dreaded encrypted fax.

But there's more.

The NPA should be prosecuting not equivocating.