It’s been a long time coming, so much so that hope of its
arrival was starting to be nothing more than hopeful fancy. However in recent
news we can see that finally… President Zuma has said something about his
Nkandla estate aside from all those denials of blatant wasteful expenditure.
Of course, whether his word is truthful or not depends solely
on the individual listening ear but at least it’s something other than the same
old script of deny, deny, deny…’
An article supplied by the Mail & Guardian recently enlightened
us with our President’s view on his home residence, ‘Nkandla Gate’. He is
reported as sticking to the whole R 200 million is a lie story and has opted
for partially taking some blame for possible corruption by admitting that it
was instead only R 50 Million
spend on the security upgrades.
So it seems our President has taken a new election tactic by
embracing his blatant corruption and instead trying to convince us [the public]
that it’s not as much corruption as we initially thought.
Now while I take this new revelation with a sea of salt, I'm
going to try and understand what he is trying to gain from this new approach.
It’s no surprise that this was going to come out before the elections,
after all the ANC had to deal with the elephant in the room at some point,
especially when that elephant was blocking the door from allowing any votes to
come in. But I have to say I'm surprised at the approach the ANC chose to take.
Frankly I would have guessed them to take the more obvious
route of deceiving us to the end, being all surprised when the truth came out
and subsequently dethroning the man and replacing him with the next in line
puppet [Thamsanqa Jantjie anyone?]. But now I'm left in awe that the ANC
has actively chosen to keep on the growing bane of their existence and instead
admit to ‘partially’ being corrupt.
I’ll admit I'm impressed. Why you may ask, well think of it
this way; if they can get away with this, it’s not even a question of them
winning again after the 7 May 2014 elections, but more of our country never
being rid of blatant corruption. In fact it will probably upgrade to a more ‘in-your-face’
kind of corruption.
It’s a sad stroke of genius if you think about it. In a way
it’s not like they don’t know what they are doing either. Our president was at
a time ‘the man who raped someone and still became president’, so it stands to
reason that the chances of him becoming ‘the man who raped a country and still
remained its president’ are very high.
The unfortunate reality can further be seen in the video accompanying
the article where a woman practically living in Number One’s backyard goes on
to say that though it’s a painful thing to watch, at least there’s hope that
maybe it will be their turn later. Another sign of how deep the indoctrination
goes when it comes to those ruling ‘eventually’ looking out for the ones in
need.
But then you have the others who have found their way out
from believing in constantly broken promises and have turned to the EFF to
solve their woes, simply because of that one time they gave a house to the lady
living on the other side of our President’s backyard.
I don’t know whether to be happy the ANC will feel the loss
of votes, or sad that another gunshot political party out for a different bag
of issues are that much closer to stepping in.
It’s a lose-lose situation.
It’s a scary thing to contemplate when you realize that every
scenario that follows the elections, will be one of trial and hardship
regardless of who wins. Because let’s face it, even if the ‘perfect party’
comes waltzing in and takes the crown there will still be trouble from those
who weren't looking for perfection and will have their displeasure known.
Politics… no matter which way you turn, there’s bound to be
a pothole of trouble waiting on hand.
