An open response to a COPE member’ s article posted on the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust Website on Wednesday, April 15, 2009
By: Kaizer Mohau Dear “Afro Democrat” Let me hasten to thank you for being so brave in your response to our argument in relation to how should the ANC led movement deal with the outcome of the NPA decision to drop all charges against Cde Jacob Zuma. Very interesting to some of us is how hell-bent you are to defend Thabo Mbeki and pose the most monotonous question your superiors and Madams have been raising – “How did the intelegence types ended up in hands of Jacob Zuma’s lawyers”? Perhaps it will assist this discussion if we could focus on these two issues so that we are able to understand each other better. AD – I was wondering as to how do you analyse issues? Firstly, you accuse Cde Fikile of trying to drag your organization “COPE” into the ongoing factionalism that is bedeviling the ruling party”, this phrase sounds like the one we hear from Helen Zille, and others – however, I think you are either suffering from amnesia or you out rightly stupid. If you wherever a member of the ANC prior to Polokwane, you will remember that a faction already existed in the ANC. At the National General Council held at the Pretoria University sometimes ago it was clear that the National Working Committee of the ANC already had taken factional decisions and brought them to the NGC as recommendations to be adopted. Most of the positions taken took many of us by surprise. As we thought the position taken by the NEC of the ANC was the position we understood and supported – which was to say, all cadres of the ANC should rally behind its leadership especially its then Deputy President, Cde Jacob Zuma. The NWC, took a position which was saying, Cde Jacob Zuma must be stripped off of all his duties as Deputy President – pending the outcome of all charges against him – this position was factional because it wanted to isolate Cde Jacob Zuma from the broad structures of the ANC and thus create an impression that the ANC has nothing to do with its own Deputy President. In a better language, the NWC ene e batla go neelana ka Jacob Zuma go manong, which simply means the NWC wanted to hand Cde Jacob Zuma to unscrupulous vultures who were baying for his blood. Now the NWC was chaired by the then President of the ANC, Thabo Mbeki and 90% of the NWC was attending and contributing in meetings chaired by the President under duress or political intimidation as Cde Fikile outlined in his open letter to the Chief of conspirators. Even when the general membership of the ANC defied the NWC and decided to rally behind the ANC Deputy President – a certain grouping in the ANC led by Thabo Mbeki continued to connive with all counter revolutionary formations and elements to discredit the ANC Deputy President – including to hold meetings in which even the DA was briefed about Thabo Mbeki’s passionate dislike of Cde Jacob Zuma – AD- It beats me as to why do you want to attributes the current challenges facing the ANC to a leadership that found the movement already bleeding as a result of the leadership before it. Why do you continue to falsify the truth and the true reflections of our history to qualify your disdainful lies about the ANC. You try pathetically without any success to defend a person you know as much as we do that he is no longer interested in the ANC and as such to the interests of our country. AD – It is very pathetic of you to want to portray COPE as the arbiter of our constitutional and democratic dispensation. Firstly most of you in COPE left the ANC precisely because of your inability and unwillingness to accept a democratic process in an organization – what then in a country of more than 48 million populace – indeed politics can turn people into robots, if they do not understand them. As the ANC we are not concern about individuals who are fond of making embarrassing statements in public due to excitement of seeing cameras facing them – So Alec Erwin does not speak for the South African population which has endorsed the ANC more than twice and it still going to do so come – Wednesday, 22 April 2009. I wonder what rule of law you are referring to, because it is the rule of law that has compelled the NPA to drop charges against our President – unless you are saying all of a sudden the NPA is now an unlawful body – and surely you are insinuating that. Otherwise you must consider desisting from making a joke of yourself. AD – what on earth do you think can threaten the African National Congress – an organization that has stood the test of time and fought many battles in the quest for our freedom – we have defeated one of the most powerful forces in the world – an apartheid machinery – so what about a group of problematic individuals who some of them failed to minister a Defiance force when they were ministers. Please Come on? AD – the past fifteen years of our democracy cannot be attributed to one man – again this is a clear indication that you in COPE have no programs nor clear policies except rubbishing the ANC – as a member of the ANC I know for a fact that without the political collective of leaders elected by structures of the ANC there would have never been an ANC led government today, that is why as the ANC we are saying no individual is bigger then the ANC – even the current President of the ANC alluded to this fact many times. You further exposes yourself when you say the following, “Mbeki's other crime is that he refuses to endorse and campaign for Zuma's ANC. Who really can blame him? The first thing Zuma said after the NPA got him off the hook, was to go for the Constitutional Court calling for its powers to be reviewed and striking ruthlessely at the very heart of our constitutional order. No self respecting democrat can identify with such irresponsibility”. AD – Never in the history of this glorious movement have leaders of the ANC after losing in a constitutional gathering like a conference ever regarded the ANC as a private company of any individual – when Thabo Mbeki was elected in Mafikeng those who preferred a different collective of leadership did not regard the ANC as belonging to Thabo – except Thabo himself and his CO. who treated the ANC as their private property – thus he think without him the ANC will die. Indeed the President of the ANC is correct – in his view that the Constitutional court at no stage should be regarded as being flawless. It is within this context that powers that are given to the Constitutional court should be premised on the fact that it is not above society but should derive its mandate and functions as a subordinated to this society. Otherwise the constitutional court will start behaving as if it is above the law and society – a mistake we have learned through the Mbeki era and history dictates we ensure that we do not repeat. Now as I indicated above, the issue of types and how they got into the possession of the lawyers to the ANC President is not an issue for me, the critical question is why did some individuals do what they did to the ANC President? Besides, the NPA indicated that the types are no longer (Classified) as such I propose you arrange with the NPA or the National Intelligence Agency to get copies of the types, because the ANC will never be able to help you – it is not the ANC that listens to conversations on phones and computers it is the above organs of state. By: Kaizer Mohau Potchefstroom North West province Mobile: 072 080 2824 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. 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