The following is letter written to the ANC secretary General Gwede Mantasha by a Journalist who grew up in front of me and who happens to be a faithful member and sympathiser of the ANC· Dear ANC The Sec Gen The NEC When I was 12 years old, I read a banned publication about the fight to realise a free, democratic, non racial South Africa wherein all will be equal before the law. A year later, a friend who at the time was memorising the Quraan pointed out to me various chapters of the book where references pertaining to justice and equality were made. This had cemented my belief that I should always take a stand against injustice wherever it reared its head. The ANC naturally became my ideological and political home. Tata injected a dose of excitement into all of us, black and white, to hold hands and work towards a South Africa that made us all proud. Mbeki, ruled with a great degree of firmness. He gave birth to the idea that Africa was one. He chastised the colonial masters for stealing our resources. He thought us about being African. His reign also threw our movement into chaos, the effects of which has come home to haunt us. We believed in our leaders, and we stood firm after robust debate. Comrade President Jacob Zuma was chosen to lead us. We listened and stood firmly in his defence. We believed that sinister forces was behind a litany of accusations against Msholozi ( ZUMA). Today, secretary general, I and many die hard supporters of this institution, has become politically orphaned. As difficult as it may be, there comes a time when we cannot defend glaring wrong fullness and the open looting of our resources. While you have a tough job facing the cameras, we on the ground have a tougher job facing the people. We can no longer blindly defend impropriety. Our people are not stupid, neither are they naïve as they were 4 years ago. In light of the public protectors report into the Nkandla project, heads must roll if we serious about being a government. Anything less, points to a group of men who can be accused of being agents. I say agents, because I have a sense that you directing all energies and efforts into the destruction of the ANC. Remember that neither you, Madiba, or Tambo, was the ANC. It belongs to all of us. Its time for our current leader to go. He has led. We want history to remember Zuma as a hero and not as a zero. If I, like many others, are asking too much, we will at least be walking away from a movement that gave us many proud moments. On principle, We may not be able to vote for our ANC, or our vote wont matter to you. We will at least take comfort that our abstinence will be based on the strong values the ANC has instilled in us. Regards Zahid Asmal.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:13:34 +0000
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