ANC battles unholy alliance

29 January 2014 - 02:36 By The Times Readers
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The latest revelations about the existence of card-carrying members of the DA in the media and other strategic institutions like the National Prosecuting Authority have vindicated the South African Communist Party in its assertion that there is aliberal offensive that is hellbent on undermining majority rule.

They use all manner of methods, including attempts to capture institutions supporting our democracy; constant protest marches provoking alliance partners and crippling the performance of the ANC government through constant litigation.

Recently, the DA announced plans to march to the head offices of the ANC. It has previously marched to the head offices of Cosatu.

On the day of the January 8 policy statement and election manifesto of the ANC, the Economic Freedom Fighters donated an unfinished house to President Jacob Zuma's "destitute" neighbour.

Recently, the leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, was photographed fawning over the IFP's president for life, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

All these events attracted a lot of publicity.

But what do these seemingly disparate groupings have in common? What binds Numsa, a union that claims to be "socialist" and "revolutionary", to a quasi-anti-capitalist party led by tenderpreneurs, an apartheid relic and a party that is unashamedly neo-liberal? They all hate the ANC.

Lenin explained that the fake "left-wing" militancy of capitalist looters such as the EFF and the Numsa leadership always go together with the opportunism of the likes of the DA and IFP.

South Africans should not allow populists and opportunists to make them lose focus. Even the normally conservative and sometimes cynical SA Institute of Race Relations has admitted that the ANC government has delivered for the people.

Its deputy CEO, Frans Cronje, was quoted as saying: "A myth has taken hold in South Africa that service delivery was a failure. However, research we have published over the past several years suggests that this is not the case."

The institute said that, for example, between 1996 and 2010 the number of households living in formal houses increased from 5.8million to 11million, or by 89.9%." - Luthando Nogcinisa, Nehawu Western Cape secretary

It is sad how much racism and ignorance is being uttered on social media about the DA-Agang announcement.

One simple comment (and I am not a DA or Agang member) to the ANC supporters: do you forget that the ANC sucked in a former NP member as minister (Marthinus van Schalkwyk) and the Freedom Front + leader Pieter Mulder as deputy minister? - Theo Martinez, Craighall Park

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