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Dear Mr Al Presidente
Are you a puppet Al Presidente or a Dictator. It must be one of the two, and here is why:
- Either they need a complete idiot in the hot seat who they can control, manage and manipulate (Puppet) or
- You have so much dirt on everyone in government that they dance to your tune at every step. (Dictator)
You keep saying how much you have achieved over the past 20 years, but let me give you a “top of my head list” of what keeps coming to mind when I think of the ANC:
Textbooks
I almost lost my lunch when you blamed it on Verwoerd, seriously? How long does it take to develop the specifications, draw up a tender document, advertise, adjudicate and implement? I have done it; I did multiple tenders in less than a year. So, does that mean the provincial and national education departments have been doing nothing for the last 20 years?
Service Delivery protests
So, you claim to have done so much for the poor. But please, explain this to me like I am a two year old, if you are doing so much, why are there so many service delivery protests? There are so many of them and so often that they are hardly newsworthy anymore. YOU created this monster Mr Zuma and Co, not Verwoerd, and this is why:
To get people to vote for you, you and your stormtroopers blaze into the townships in the obligatory 23 car blue light convoy. Then, you dish out T Shirts and food parcels (which I probably pay for) and promise houses, water, toilets and a free ticket to heaven. You scream Amandla and sing Um Shini whatever - and the masses get all excited and vote for you. You then blaze off into the sunset and naturally win the election. Then - nothing. Silence. No houses, no toilets, no water and no free ride to heaven. People get angry, they protest, you scream apartheid. It’s never, ever your fault.
Let’s talk a bit about Eskom.
No, let’s not. Ok, lets. When was the government warned about capacity problems? What did they do about it? If I am correct, you developed a task team to look into alternative funding. What did the task team come up with? Did the task team even know that it was a task team? What profits does Eskom generate? Why is the cost of electricity skyrocketing? Who runs Eskom? What salaries and bonuses were they paid while surgeons operated in the dark with headlamps? Remind me again about the Pebble Bed reactor and now this thing with Russia?
If someone is reading this who has some time on their hands, see if you can find the press conference where Alec Erwin said “we as government take responsibility for the electricity crisis” So, take responsibility, fall on your sword and resign.
Another quick stat: how many power stations were built in the 20 years before 1994 and the 20 years after 1994.
The police. Our dearly beloved police officers:
I forget what percentage of police and military personnel are incompetent at using firearms and need counseling before using them. Counseling, seriously, you can’t find someone who can fire a gun without developing post traumatic distress? And then you wonder why events like Marikana happened? Let’s leave that one there. Even with our 43 Billion Rand arms package, I doubt even the Swaziland navy would have a hard time defeating us.
The pass rate:
30%, I like your strategy. When things don’t go well, drop your standards. Brilliant thinking, until the poor guy gets to university and cannot cope, so he fails and you scream racist and discrimination and force the universities to drop their standards. And then before we know it, we are a mediocre nation that is not even content with mediocrity, no, we strive for the easiest possible solution or path. Soon all Sipho and Thandi will have to do to pass is attend 20% of lectures, spell more than 40% of 10 words correctly and be able to recognize the difference between a square and a circle.
You are doing them no favours by dropping the pass mark. Noooo Mr Al Presidente, you are the reason people are taking a dump on a statue, blaming Rhodes for everything. This is YOUR fault Mr Al Presidente, you created this, not me, not Rhodes, Not Van Riebeek, YOU
The moral high ground and corruption:
You and your government claim the moral high ground after it collectively defeated apartheid and emerged victorious. A well deserved victory indeed. You managed to hold onto the moral high ground for a while, but now the government is morally bankrupt.
To claim and retain the moral high ground, you need to be “better than”, not “equal to” or “as bad as” the previous regime.
Read this bit again Mr Al Presidente you have to be BETTER THAN the previous regime
This is how “you and your government” lost the moral high ground:
Corruption – you don’t get to say “yes but so were they”, you have no excuse. Full stop. No explanations, no justifications. To claim the moral high ground, you cannot be corrupt. What makes it worse is how endemic it has become, how it is now a way of life, almost applauded and morally acceptable.
What makes me sick to my stomach is how you and your government blatantly refuses to be held accountable and to hold those who are corrupt accountable. Your government is breeding corruption, feeding it, condoning it and a large component of your government is therefore criminals.
Now, while you get on your high horse and take me to all sorts of tribunals, let’s look at it from this angle:
You and your government takes money, my money, a lot of my money and blows it on corruption, parties, tenders, shoddy RDP houses, bridges that collapse and all sorts of other wasteful causes, including Maseratis and that little homestead your 22 wives live in. That is my money Mr Al Presidente, money meant to deliver text books, build schools, fix potholes, train pilots for those 27 Gripen Fighters, deliver medicines to hospitals, pay suppliers, give water to rural communities.
So, if the money doesn’t end up where it is supposed to go, the only reasonable conclusion to make is that your government stole it, gave it away to their friends and squandered it. And because you keep on doing it in spite of rampant corruption, I have no choice but to conclude that you do it intentionally. You are then, in my humble opinion, criminally negligent.
In case your standard eight (wait, do you even have a standard eight?) is struggling to keep up, this is a quick definition of criminal negligence:
criminal negligence - (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
negligence, nonperformance, carelessness, neglect - failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
Why do I say these things Mr Al Presidente, I say them because you are breeding corruption. You nurture it, define it, teach people how to do it and you reward them for it. You do all these things through your failure to act decisively. You do these things by not firing corrupt ministers, MEC’s and officials. You have them placed on leave, suspended on full pay pending an inquiry and ultimately redeploying them. There is no consequence to corruption Mr Al Presidente, no one is ever punished, so we become more confident, believing we will get away with it. Hell, do it well enough and you will be rewarded even more!
Time and time again you, Mr Al Presidente, the womanizing, polygamist, corrupt, rape accused promises to stamp out corruption and to punish the guilty. Time and time again we are told about corruption. Time and time again, you, Mr President, do nothing.
But what should I expect anyway? This is the same Mr Al Presidente who had unprotected sex with an HIV positive lady and took the now legendary shower, the same Mr Al Presidente who has been in court for rape and fighting to stay out of court for corruption.
I still want to know, how did Hulley get those tapes from the intelligence agencies? Come on, answer us, how did he get them, these tapes that miraculously appeared just before Polokwane and were the sole basis of charges being dropped. I dare you to answer that question.
On the Hulley issue, how can you still associate with him? A director of Velvet Sky, a director of Aurora, shrouded in controversy and you still associate with him? Do you not see anything at all, even remotely suspect about that?
In a world where a top contender for the directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency resigns over an extra marital affair and falls on his sword, what do you do?
Lets put this into context – In the USA (yes yes, colonialist capitalist agent bastards), affair results in resignation.
In South Africa – Affairs, charge of rape, charge of corruption, unprotected sex (read “rape”) with an HIV positive lady, polygamy, make your friend Jomo’s daughter pregnant; – you get to be AL PRESIDENTE!
To the government, how can you live with yourselves? Knowing that the millions of people you fought so hard to liberate are still starving while you are millionaires and billionaires? The thousands who were cannon fodder in the front lines of the marches that were shot by security police still live on less than minimum wage – the cannon fodder you sent out there when you organized the marches? How can you live with yourselves when you climb into your Maserati and drink Johnny Black when the people you fought so hard to free are dying in hospitals, raped and abused – by police officers, having their penises amputated because of botched initiation, victims of violent crime, illiterate and hopeless?
Or maybe the question really is, do you even care? Even Trevor Manuel said one night in parliament “or are we too rich to care?”
Incompetence:
Cadre deployment doesn’t work. I repeat what I wrote about how literally the entire civil service went from white to black overnight. Now I have absolutely no problem with that, as long as there are competent people doing the job. Your government has already admitted this. Take a long hard look at all government departments, and then answer me, does it really work? Really? Limpopo under national administration, how did that happen? This same national administration could not deliver text books, defying a court order to do so and then refuses to be held accountable, and then is defended by you Mr Al Presidente, who conveniently blames Verwoerd and Van Riebeek.
Your own government says there is a problem with cadre deployment and incompetence, putting the wrong people in the wrong positions. What have they (and by proxy – you) done about it? Nothing. What will they do about it? Nothing. Who will you blame? Whites, Van Riebeek and apartheid.
They will stay there because they have struggle credentials. They will stay there, be corrupt thieves, ruin departments, ruin communities, starve them, keep them uneducated, sick and dying due to poor or nonexistent delivery and drive their Maseratis. And what will you do about it Mr Al Presidente? You will do what you always do, nothing.
This is a small one, but are you able to appoint any senior government official that is not controversial or has a dubious past? I dare you to try it Mr Al Presidente. Appoint a policeman to be National Commissioner. There is a good start. Try it, you might like it.
You know what, I think the government needs these crises, these problems, because each new one helps them sweep the past one under the carpet. The press will pick up on the latest one and the previous one will be yesterday’s news.
When you can’t get things right, such as land re distribution, wealth creation, employment creation – due to corruption and incompetence, rather than fix the problem, you take the next easiest solution, take it from the whites.
The thing is Mr Al Presidente - You HAVE the government departments with budgets and agencies to do all these things, your government has housing departments, land reform departments, health departments, man, they have a department for everything, they have budgets, committees, inter ministerial committees, portfolio committees, but they spend so much time being corrupt, incompetent and generating tenders for buddies that they can’t get a thing right.
If they would just do their jobs properly, they could make it all work, but they won’t, and they can’t, so I will patiently wait for you to come and take my house, my uncles farm, my father’s pension and then spend it, ruin it and blame it all on me.
Name me one government department that works, that is organized, that functions effectively and that is professional. You name one – it will not be the one that delivers a service, it is the one that takes our money, my money that I work 10 hour days for. SARS – the single effective government agency that takes my money and gives it to your government to waste, steal and squander.
Arrogance:
Coupled with the culture of entitlement. The world owes you, the whites owe you and the masses owe you for freeing them. Everyone owes you, and it is abundantly clear that you intend to collect. Nephew Zuma and Baby Mandela, wow, they deserved their millions, the world owed them that, and their surnames makes sure they get all they need or want. And the Aurora miners starve. And you Mr Al Presidente, a shining bastion of moral standing and credibility, what do you do? Nothing.
You are perfect, no one can point fingers at you, and if they do, it’s never ever your fault; you get to point your finger back 20 years and blame apartheid. Seriously?
Your government doesn’t like people that find fault with them, do they? It’s like the mafia days, someone shoots your cousin, you shoot him, his cousin, wife, children and the dog. Someone questions or challenges your government and policies, and they systematically assassinate his character. Ask the CEO of Nedbank how that feels. Ask the public protector how that feels. Ask FNB how that feels. FNB, those treasonous traitor counter revolutionary colonialist agent bastards. Oh, by the way, the great stable banking system you claim, who exactly created it Mr Al Presidente, um, we whiteys did.
A black man rapes and murders a whole family on a farm – random violent crime. A white man kills a black man - racist racially motivated killing.
First your ex main man Julius will kill for you, now he says you are practically the antichrist, a dictator. (Truth be told, I’m, finding it hard to disagree) When you needed him, you put him on a stage and paraded him as a good future president. Now he is a cockroach. Go figure.
You talk about respect, communication and honour, but your government calls each other cockroaches, snakes, dogs and the latest – lice. Lice? Seriously? But it’s never anyone, its only reckless lawless factions who say these things, nothing, nothing ever happens to them.
Education. Because your government is inept, corrupt and incompetent and cannot build schools, employ and pay teachers properly and of course, deliver text books, education in South Africa is a joke. How many teacher vacancies are there in the Eastern Cape? So the pupils fail, what happens? Instead of fixing the problems, your government takes the easy route, drops standards to get more learners to pass school.
They send these uneducated, mediocre learners out into the world to try to get jobs, but no one wants to employ someone who got 34% for economics and maths literacy, universities won’t accept them, so they cry foul and drop those standards too. And then, of course, it’s the whites fault.
It has occurred to me that the government would prefer to keep them uneducated and illiterate, so that they can pop in every few years, give out some T shirts and food parcels, promise them the world, not deliver, secure their vote, stay in power and go back to your luxury multi billion rand offices to dream up some new tenders for your buddies.
Prove me wrong. Didn’t your ex main man Julius say he wants to give the mines and the wealth to the masses so that they would keep voting for you? I’m positive he did.
Lack of innovation
Surely you are tired of blaming apartheid? Can’t you come up with something else to blame? Oh I forgot, the new buzz word, COLONIALISM. It’s the British, the Americans, and the Europeans. But you didn’t even make that one up, MUGABE did. What about aliens, racist ones, it’s their fault. At least it’s something new.
Censorship
When people ask difficult questions, highlight problems and corruption (which or course is all lies because you are perfect), what do you do? You silence them. You organize marches and protests against them and tell South Africans not to read their publications. You refuse to reveal documents and reports, and when you do, you sanitise them, edit them. Now they create laws that silence the media, prevent them from exposing corruption, threaten and intimidate them into silence. Your government arrests journalists – Wa Afrika, for what?
I wait in eager anticipation for the day when someone asks for information on a school in the Northern Cape or a hospital in KZN, how quickly will they be designated national key points or classified?
The blame game.
No one is ever, ever responsible for violence, death and destruction when marches are held, when protests are held. The favorite catch phrase – “agent provocateurs”. It’s never COSATU, it’s never NUM, it’s never anybody. Perhaps the whites inserted people into these marches to provoke violence, that’s one you can use. Look at what happened at Lonmin, both sides blame each other. Now it’s the police. Maybe it’s mine management themselves, standing at the gates opening fire on innocent crowds with automatic rifles. The same innocent crowds who hack policemen to death, the same policemen who are so sick and tired of being abused, shot at, stoned and so burnt out that they behave badly and shoot.
Intelligent arguments.
When your government enters a battle of intelligent arguments unarmed, they resort to character assassination, calling politicians madams with concubines and garden boys, cockroaches and snakes - ask the Public Protector, ask Shilowa, Lekota, ask the CEO of Nedbank. Face it, you don’t have any intelligent arguments, you substitute these with the blame game, apartheid, colonialism, racism, censorship and intimidation.
Your black diamonds and tender billionaires.
Was BEE not meant to be BROAD based economic empowerment? Was it not supposed to benefit many – thereby re distributing wealth? Then why do the same names keep cropping up in big deals, the same names in tenders, share and ownership transactions. Why is that? While the billions or Rands get shared between a privileged (dare I say connected and possibly corrupt) few, the masses who put you in power continue to starve, wait for houses, water, sanitation and food. What did Marie Antoinette say when the people revolted due to lack of food: “let them eat cake”
Your government replaced just about every white person in public service with a black person, every white minister with a black one; every white cop with black one - you collectively run and rule the country.
But what have you done with it? Did you use expertise to create wealth, jobs and houses for all? NO. Did you recognize the need to build more power stations because the whites didn’t build enough for the blacks? NO. Did you build more schools, train more teachers? NO. Did you take world class hospitals, re-name them and turn them into squalor? YES. Did you fail at educating the youth so you dropped the pass mark? YES.
Do you take responsibility for this? NO
Do you blame it all on white people, apartheid, Verwoerd and Van Riebeek? YES
You certainly had the power, money and ability to do it. But you failed. Now it’s my fault. Blame blame blame. You have government, the economy, you have it all, including my money. What have you done with it? You have had 20 years to build schools, to sort out healthcare, to provide water, sanitation. Take a deep breath and think of how much you could achieve in 20 years, the same time it takes a child to grow from baby to adult.
Some other little tidbits
Mbeki and Mantu, the Aids denialists. Beetroot and potatoes. HIV doesn’t cause aids. The same Mantu how was an alcoholic and somehow managed to go to the top of the transplant list, then continued drinking and died. These are the role models of the masses, the people they look up to and aspire to. The ones who call each other cockroaches and snakes, who assassinate their opposition, who drink Moet at a birthday party while everyone else drinks Oros. OROS? Seriously? E-tolls – is it true that the government pension is invested in E-Tolling? The youth league claiming Ghadaffi is one of their role models. The Dalai Lama being refused entry into South Africa to appease the Chinese. SRC presidents admiring Hitler, Revolutionaries who only now wake up to the mediocrity and solve it by taking a dump on a statue.
Let’s get into reverse racism.
I saw on TV a black executive saying it was impossible for a black person to be racist. Why am I constantly called Umlungu? What if I smiled and said back, “hey darkie”? Why were my white friends at the SABC told to their faces that they are whiteys and must “fuck off out of the SABC”? I can go on for ages on this subject, but it’s safer not to.
I don’t care who is in government, white, black, Indian or Coloured, all I care is that they do a good job. I don’t care if its baby Mandela, Nephew Zuma, Kunene, his wife or cousin. I don’t care if its Zille or her garden boy, I don’t care if it’s Motlante, Mantashe or Sexwale. Hell, I don’t even care if it’s you Mr Al Presidente. All I bloody well care about is that whoever it is, simply does a good job. An honest, non corrupt, non nepotistic, effective and credible job.
I’m almost done with my note Mr Al Presidente, please try to bear with me.
It has occurred to me that one of the reasons everyone was so very desperate to keep you in power is because if you weren’t in power any more, that you could be prosecuted, and if you go down, they will all break your fall. Didn’t you say something similar to that in your representations to the NPA? Im waiting for the day when you run for a third term and succeed.
I’m not a racist Mr President, but I am now convinced you are trying to turn me into one.
So Mr Al Presidente, Puppet or Dictator, which one are you? Whites are dying (literally) to find out.
Finally, I would like to challenge you to a debate. A frank and honest debate between the President and an average white male of South Africa. Let’s talk about these issues, prove me wrong, I challenge you to prove me wrong. Actually, it might need to be two or three debates, because there are a lot of issues.
I’m calling you out Mr Al Presidente. To a debate. Any time, any place.
Footnote. You may be asking why I keep mentioning Maseratis. I don’t even like them. But I see on the news how councilors in a tiny bankrupt, I say again BANKRUPT, Northern Cape municipality, arrive at a meeting, driving, you guessed it – Maseratis.
