IT DOES NOT SUPRISE ANY WHITE PERSON IN N.S.A ANYMORE. FOR YEARS THEY HAVE WARNED THE WORLD THAT THE SCRUPULOUS ANC ARE A CONGLOMERATION OF BANDITS, THIEVES, MURDERERS AND CORRUPT LOW INTELLECTUALS THAT- ONCE IN POWER- WILL NOT HAND OVER THAT POWER TO ANYBODY ELSE. THEY WILL- IN THE EVENT OF A LOST ELECTION- RETURN TO THEIR "ROOTS"- AND START TO MURDER ALL OPPOSITION LEADERS- AND TRY TO MAKE THE COUNTRY UN-GOVERNABLE.
WHEN WILL THE STUPID NAIVE LIBERALS EVER GET IT IN THEIR SICK RETARTED PEA BRAINS THAT NO AFRICAN CAN BE TRUSTED- AND THAT THEY WERE BORN FROM A BAD GENE POOL- ONE THAT HAVE A UNPARRALELLED DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN IT'S DNA STRAND?
The ANC has launched an intensive campaign to save Jacob Zuma from prosecution - admitting that it will use every weapon in its arsenal to have the charges against its president dropped.
On Tuesday, just a week before KwaZulu-Natal Judge Chris Nicholson rules on whether the Scorpions' case against Zuma should proceed, the ANC's highest decision-making body, its national working committee, announced an all-encompassing strategy to ensure that Zuma stays out of court, regardless of the ruling.
Party secretary-general Gwede Mantashe told the Cape Argus on Wednesday morning that this would involve mobilising support across the country - not just from ANC supporters, but using the media to try to generate overwhelming public support for the charges to be dropped.
The NWC's formal statement reads: "(The Zuma matter) has become deeply politicised, with South Africans being asked to take sides. It is (our) view that it is time to address these divisions and work towards a national consensus."
Mantashe explained that the party viewed the pending charges against Zuma in a similar light to the fight against apartheid.
He said apartheid had been resolved through dialogue and the ANC wanted the charges against Zuma to be similarly resolved.
He did not say how any such support would translate into the charges being dropped, saying only: "Through public dialogue and debates by civil society this matter can be settled amicably.
"This initiative will have to be driven by the public, with the ANC being participants."
Critics accuse the ANC of subverting fundamental bastions of democracy, such as the judiciary and the principle of the rule of law. But Mantashe said: "We are of the view that, through dialogue, we will arrive at a solution that will not be seen to be undermining state institutions.
'You do not solve the problem of a flat tyre by deflating all the other tyres'
"We have done it before: when we were negotiating a democratic government, in 1990, we arrived at a sufficient consensus that enabled us to have democracy."
Presenting a case for the disbandment of the beleaguered crime-fighting team, the Directorate of Special Operations (the Scorpions) on Tuesday, the KwaZulu-Natal SACP - also vocal in its support for Zuma - told MPs that the DSO was conducting a "double investigation" against the ANC leader by pursuing both the "political and criminal" angles in the case.
The SACP claimed that the "rot has gone so deep" in the DSO "that no amount of administrative or procedural tinkering" could change anything.
But DA Mpumalanga youth leader Stanley Zondi told MPs that "you do not solve the problem of a flat tyre by deflating all the other tyres". - Additional reporting by Political Bureau
Political rhetoric or real warning?
4 August 2008, 06:42
By Deon de Lange
No Zuma, no country. That's a chilling warning issued on Sunday to the rest of the country by the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans' Association (MKMVA).
The threat came on the eve of Zuma's appearance in the Pietermaritzburg high court on Monday, where his legal team is to ask for their client's prosecution on fraud, corruption, money-laundering and tax-evasion charges to be dropped.
The MKMVA made it clear that a legal defeat for ANC president Jacob Zuma "will not be tolerated".
"We want to make this message very clear. We are not going to allow this country - or any other country - to destroy the ANC or its leader, comrade Jacob Zuma. We are going to make sure that Zuma becomes the next president of this country, no matter what. No Zuma, no country," the organisation's deputy national secretary, Ramatuku Maphutha, told Independent Newspapers on Sunday.
Maphutha said "platoons of MK soldiers" - who he said would number over 1 000 - would be "deployed" across the country, including Pietermaritzburg, to send a clear signal of support for Zuma and "to make sure the judge does not make an arrogant decision".
He said though the "soldiers" would not be carrying conventional weapons, they would be armed with their "military politics".
He said some of the "soldiers" would be identifiable by their MKMVA affiliation badges, but others would be "in the trenches awaiting orders" and would be ready to "challenge the system" if called upon to do so.
He did not say what such a "challenge" would entail.
After years of relative obscurity, the MKMVA has risen to some prominence on the back of their outspoken support for Zuma in the run-up to the ANC's watershed Polokwane conference.
On Friday the organisation announced that it would be collecting one million signatures to hand over to the National Prosecuting Authority to signal the "public outcry" over Zuma's prosecution.
But the latest threat is reminiscent of the notoriously violent role that veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle have played in contemporary politics in that country.
The so-called Zanu-PF war veterans have become something of a second army for Robert Mugabe, who has unleashed this non-statutory force on those who oppose him or his controversial land reform policies.
Maphutha also waded in on the latest corruption allegations contained in weekend newspaper reports.
He questioned the timing of the Sunday Times allegation that Zuma received R2-million of a R30-million kick-back allegedly paid to President Thabo Mbeki by the German shipbuilding company that won the contract to supply submarines worth more than R6-billion to the SA Navy.
"They (the Sunday Times) should not be bringing this stuff and making these allegations now. It is aimed at discrediting the ANC president as he goes to court," he said.
Asked if he thought the allegations should at least be investigated, Maphutha said: "No. Why? This thing has been done by the enemies of Zuma.
"They (the allegations) should just be dismissed. We cannot allow it."
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) also ratcheted up its rhetoric ahead of Zuma's appearance, slamming his prosecution as a "grave political injustice" and saying "no stone must be left unturned in his defence".
The league on Sunday also repeated its demand for Mbeki to be recalled by the ANC and for early elections to be held in South Africa.
This position was this weekend officially adopted at the first meeting of the league's new national executive committee, which was elected at its second conference last month.
This, after the first conference in Bloemfontein was abandoned when the conference deteriorated into a water-bottle missile fight infamously characterised by the display of naked buttocks and mock coffins as various camps openly ridiculed and humiliated opposing candidates.
The new leadership, which includes eight newly-elected members of the national working committee (NWC), re-affirmed its support for Zuma, insisting that he "will be the face of the ANC election campaign" and that he "will become the country's next president".
"(The NEC) expressed its utter distaste at the continued manipulation of important institutions of our democracy by individuals who are determined to advance their agenda, which seeks to destroy the ANC president and the ANC itself," the league said in a statement.
Newly-elected league spokesperson, Maropene Ntuli - who is also mayor of Siyanda District Municipality - said the league "remains confident that justice will prevail and our courts will rise above partisan political agendas in dealing with the (Zuma) matter".
The league called on its members to join pickets outside the Pietermaritzburg high court or the courts in their respective provinces to demonstrate their support for Zuma "in these trying times".
* This article was originally published on page 1 of The Pretoria News on August 04, 2008
More trouble for Malema?
14/07/2008 22:19 - (SA)
Johannesburg - The Democratic Alliance is asking the SA Human Rights Commission to investigate a reported statement by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on the "elimination" of the DA.
"In the context of Mr Malema's previous exhortation for people to 'kill in support of Jacob Zuma', it is not unreasonable to assume that Malema is calling for the killing of members of the DA or those who are earnestly working in our judicial institutions to ensure that justice is dispensed without fear of favour," said DA parliamentary caucus leader Sandra Botha on Monday.
"Malema may have adjusted his vocabulary, but his intentions clearly remain the same."
Botha said the DA wrote to the SAHRC on the matter on Monday.
Counter-revolution
In a speech prepared for delivery at a funeral on Sunday, Malema said that as the country prepares for the 2009 general elections, questions need to be asked in relation to how service delivery can be accelerated, and poverty halved by 2014.
He said this could only have meaning if "we rise above our petty differences and work together in building a South Africa we can all be proud of.
"We must also intensify the struggle to eliminate the remnants of counter-revolution, which include the DA and a loose coalition of those who want to use state power to block the ANC president's ascendancy to the highest office of the land."
The DA said that given the high levels of violence prevalent in South Africa and the country's history of intolerance, "such comments are not only reckless in the extreme, they constitute a clear and present danger to our constitutional order".
Botha said Malema's comments would create a "climate of intolerance and an acceptance of violence" to further political ends.
The party believed it important that the SAHRC clamps down on similar statements made in the future.
More synonyms for kill
By Malema's assurance that he will never use the word "kill" again in public, the DA believed the SAHRC had created the space for Malema to undermine democracy.
"If the HRC fails to take swift action against Malema now, then it is likely that we will see Malema merely finding more synonyms for the word "kill" in future statements."
During a Youth Day rally in Thaba Nchu in the Free State in June, Malema said: "We are prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma."
He said the word "kill" was meant to demonstrate love and passion for Zuma.
A week later Congress of SA Trade Unions secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi said: "So yes, because Jacob Zuma is one of us, and he is one of our leaders, for him, we are prepared to lay our lives and to shoot and kill."
Monday is the deadline the SAHRC set for Vavi to apologise.
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