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For those who ever thought the problems we have in our country lie with Jacob Zuma, please wait. Let me tell you, the problem is not the president. The problem is those who endorse him.
So, who endorses the president? The ANC! And that is exactly where the problem is. This hypocrisy of pointing a finger at the president, especially by ordinary members of the ANC on the ground every time he errs is irritating and works well for the ANC because they know very well that they are the problem and are happy to see us blaming the president.
They are happy because they know when he leaves his party presidency in December there is hope that many disgruntled members will revert back to their ANC under the impression that the problem is gone. The fact of the matter is those who blame the president seem to be forgetting that, this president did not for himself, but was voted for, by the people. If you thought the ANC leadership is not happy with what he does, then wait for a motion of no confidence debate and see how happy they are with what the president does.
The DA is calling for a debate on this motion knowing very well that it will never work. All they are trying to display before South Africans is for everyone to see where the problem is. The ANC are the people who brought this president to this nation saying he was the best. They do not give a damn that we have now been relegated to junk status and they worry about is their jobs, period. When the ANC was unhappy with Mbeki they removed him and in the same way if they were unhappy with Zuma, they would have removed him. In as much as ministers serve at his pleasure, so does he at the pleasure of the party.
The ANC are so excited to see us blaming the president because they know after the new president is installed at the end of the year, many will imagine that with Zuma’s departure all problems would be gone, when in fact it is going to be clear that the problem was never Zuma but those who endorsed him.
The whole cabinet reshuffle was all about the re-alignment of power so that Zuma can continue to rule from the grave come December 2017. It is a strategy designed to enable him to extend his term of office with the former wife. He was stopping the pendulum from swinging away from a trouble free retirement. After all he has endorsed her on many occasions.
In the final analysis the noise about Zuma this, Zuma that is absolute nonsense. He is doing what the voters and the ANC are happy to see him doing. He did not vote for himself, he was voted for by the people and the people should celebrate the achievements of their chosen leader, period. And those achievements include Nkandla scandal, Junk Status, Guptagate, SASSA fiasco, COPE formation, birth of EFF , COSATU disintegration, 700+ charges, etc. So, stop blaming the president, blame those who put a cross next to his head on the ballot box, full stop.
The other hypocrites are this COSATU. If they indeed wanted him out they would have called for a national stay away until he resigns. But because they have provided themselves as fodder for votes and are happy with him, all they do is provide lip service to the call for him to step down.
