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September is Public Service Month and we remember the deaths of Suliman Saloojee, Alpheus Maliba, Jacob Monakgotla, Imam Abdullah Haron, Looksmart Ngudle and Steve Biko.
These martyrs cannot die in vain when our state is auctioned to the highest bidders whose criminal motive is corruption at all costs. On June 26th, 1955, we adopted a Freedom Charter and declared that:”People shall Govern” and government shall be based on the Will of the People, not their leaders.
We never said “the government and the state shall meet the needs of those who can dish out patronage, hook tender and turn the organs of state to the vehicles of corruption.” We committed ourselves like the above martyrs to advance the Will of the People by being servants who adhere to “Batho Pele”.
When the apartheid state was defeated at the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola by Fapla and the Cubans and apartheid found to be no longer workable, FW de Klerk chose the path of negotiations. Democratic forces began debating the nature and character of the state. Thabo Mbeki, Raymond Suttner, Joel Netshitenzhe, Pallo Jordan (nee Dr), Joe Slovo, Philip Dexter and many other leaders of the tripartite alliance made intellectual theoretical contributions on state transformation debate.
Little did we know that the state would end up serving the interest of one individual and his cronies? Mac Maharaj had to cut short his retirement to serve the individual.
How do you have a president who claims to be innocent but opposes investigations of off-shore accounts, an encrypted fax, diary and spy tapes that do not belong to him in the first place?
The stoning of Bulelani Ngcuka, Vusi Pikoli, Thuli Madonsela, Pias Langa, Dikgang Moseneke and now Mxolisi Nxsana is a systematic attempt of the capacity to fight corruption.
Sadtu leader who sell posts are unpatriotic, corrupt and pseudo comrades.
We have not yet reserved frontiers of land we lost during the wars of dispossession, the 1913 and 1936 Land Act and forced removals. Land is being expropriated by those that have not rented out land to tenants. This being synonymous to the same way that things happened in the apartheid era and in the colonial states.
Cadre deployment is not a sin, as long as it does not serve one particular individual, his family and cronies. The appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng in the SABC is not cadre deployment but naked patronage, an enemy of National Democratic Revolution. SARS cannot be seen to be prosecuting Julius Malema but shield Jacob Zuma!
Our state cannot serve the interest of Paul O’Sullivan and Glen Agliotti, but prosecute Jackie Selebi.
The majority of state employees belong to COSATU-aligned unions, but why is corruption so high?
