Johnathan Paoli
ANC Secretary-General (SG) Fikile Mbalula and SACP General Secretary (GS) Solly Mapaila have declared former president Jacob Zuma a counter-revolutionary who exhibits traitorous conduct in relation to furthering the National Democratic Revolution within the country.
During the 31st commemoration of the assassination of anti-Apartheid struggle hero Thembisile Chris Hani, leaders from the SACP, the ANC as well as the government delivered speeches at the Thomas Titus Nkobi Memorial Park in Ekurhuleni on Wednesday.
Mapaila said Zuma did not match up to Hani’s standards.
“Hani’s adherence to revolutionary discipline differs fundamentally from Jacob Zuma’s conduct, which is tantamount to a counte-rrevolutionary and treasonous behaviour,” Mapaila said.
He said Hani was not a thief nor a political criminal and that despite the challenges that he faced, both before and after the “Hani Memorandum”, he upheld the discipline of the movement under difficult conditions that affected him personally.
While Zuma was a hypocrite considering his call out against those who formed the breakaway COPE party for betraying the ANC and the discipline they were required to uphold, he said.
Mapaila accused Zuma of stealing the name and identity of the MK to form his own party and contest the forthcoming elections against the ANC, the same organisation which made him the president of the republic.
“There can be no doubt that Zuma is still bitter about his own recall by the ANC. But how did he embrace the recall of his predecessor, spearheaded and implemented under his leadership as the president of the ANC, if he is not self-contradicting? Zuma’s recall was long overdue. It was essential to save South Africa. As covered in the report of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, rot of the Gupta and other private business capture of key levers of the state had entrenched under Zuma’s leadership as the president of the republic,” He said.
The SACP was the first political organisation to expose the existence of state capture in our country and to call for the establishment of the judicial commission and that the party did not want the Guptas to bounce back, among others, through the very political and government leadership that enabled them to loot.
“We want them to be arrested, prosecuted and held accountable for the corruption described in the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture and the charges they face from the National Prosecuting Authority, among others,” he said.
Mapaila said the Zuma brand has passed its sell-by date, except for a tiny minority who do not mind promoting the cult of personality, but the fact remained that millions of South Africans were unhappy about the state capture and industrial scale looting that took place with the fugitives from justice, and his friends the Guptas, at the helm.
The GS called on all former MK soldiers to vote for the ANC in honour of their late Chief of Staff and SACP General-Secretary, Chris Hani.
Mbalula said Hani would be disappointed about how the facts of history had been twisted to suit a particular narrative, alluding to the formation of the MK Party.
He described Hani’s murder as a calculated move to undermine the National Democratic Revolution and plunge the country into a civil war to disrupt the dawn of democracy with unprecedented chaos.
“Cde Chris Hani would therefore be shocked and disappointed to know that some today have elected to dispute the historical fact that the MK was formed by the ANC and the SACP as an armed wing of the ANC,” he said
Mbalula said Hani would be shocked that a former ANC leader who was given an opportunity of two terms to lead as ANC President and by extension as the President of our country, later betrayed the revolution!
“There is no doubt that Cde Chris Hani would have been a worthy and corrupt free Presidential candidate of the movement. Cde Chris Hani would have instead left a legacy as President that all of us would have been proud of as a leader of the ANC and government, as opposed to the current legacy of the State Capture rot,” Mbalula said.
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