Indeed, the deplorable comments of the Western Cape premier Helen Zille are not only smack of hatred for the state president Jacob Zuma but openly advocate for gross disrespect or contempt for the majority of the electorate who voted against the "Stop Zuma" campaign of the Democratic Alliance (DA). This rogue behaviour is not any way consistent with the responsibilities of the office of the premier but grave enough to introduce a resolution of impeachment to the legislative authority of a province. By allowing Zille to behave in such an insidious manner, the DA leadership exposed itself to a situation involving the risk of a conflict between its official responsibilities to govern all people of the Western Cape and its vision purportedly grounded in the idea that every human being has a right to dignity. She has deliberately acted in a way that impacts negatively on the image of the presidency. In fact, it's patently shameful that Zille violated the DA’s own policy on "general tolerance of difference on the part of the population" which ordinary people voted for it out of trust. I therefore challenge DA leadership to recall her from office for failing to maintain the highest standards of ethical behaviour required of a public representative. Put simply, premiers are required to act in accordance with a code of ethics as prescribed by national legislation regardless of race and party affiliation. It's therefore unbecoming of Zille to be engage in a political posturing fraught with libel and slander to damage the good name of the president and the first lady on matters that bear no relation to service delivery or our country's strategic developmental agenda. It’s for this reason that Zille must resign for demonstrating a clear abdication of her responsibility to provide leadership befitting to hold public office. Remain Morgan Phaahla, Ekurhuleni
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Tue, 5/12/09, Castro Ngobese <[email protected]> wrote: From: Castro Ngobese <[email protected]> Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] HELEN ZILLE'S DEPLORABLE COMMENTS To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 7:31 AM Helen Zille’s deplorable comments 12 May 2009 The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] notes with utter disgust the venomous comments made by the loud mouth DA leader Ms.Helen Zille as it relates to the President of the Republic Jacob Zuma. Ms. Helen Zille is a sick woman who needs help. We thought her initial relentless outburst were due to the election euphoria. This cheap and cowardly attack is reminiscent of the earlier labelling of President Zuma with the failed intention of isolating him and ensuring that he does not ascend to the highest office in the land. Now that President Zuma has ascended to the throne as the President of the Republic, were are witnessing these ‘out of touch’ attempts. Fortunately, the people of South Africa will not be fooled by the malicious, chauvinistic and deplorable racist attacks by Zille. We fully support and stand by Zuma’s Presidency. It is our view that the personalization and Americanisation of politics is increasingly becoming dangerous for our country and body politics. Ms.Zille is deliberately shifting the debate on the key developmental challenges facing our country in our ongoing efforts of building a non racial, non sexist, democratic and prosperous country. Her confrontational style of opposition politics has been dealt a heavy blow by the inclusiveness of the President in the appointment of cabinet. Let her deal with the disappointments she caused to the many black people she fooled and lied during her racist campaign. She could not appoint in her cabinet an African because they are ‘unable’ and unqualified, when she garnered their votes. She is such a disgrace to the women of our country for choosing an all white male cabinet. We deplore the attacks on President Zuma because he was elected based on the good track record of the ANC government over the past 15 years and the ANC elections manifesto which the majority of South Africans agree with, as opposed to his private lifestyle. As the YCLSA we see these attacks as a continuation of a prolonged personal onslaught against President Zuma as initiated by the then NPA head Bulelani Ngcuka in collaboration with some sections of the bourgeois media. Zille is abusing public platforms to insult the integrity of the Office and persons of President Zuma. This tendency defeats the ideals of Bram Fischer, Ruth First and other great architectures of our democratic dispensation and seeks to sustain the legacy of Apartheid for which clearly Ms Zille is an ardent supporter by her actions let alone her words. There are many challenges faced by our country which are a manifestation of an embedded apartheid legacy done by Zille’s ancestors, including land reform, access to housing, jobs for the poor and education for the vast majority of our working class and poor youth. Instead of Zille responding to these pressing challenges faced by our people, she chose’s to be personal and attack President Zuma. These cheap rantings and insults by Ms. Zille should be located and understood within the failed and aborted media plot to pose President Zuma as unfit to govern and against all odds he won the elections. Now that there is nothing that the bourgeois media can do, they rely on giving Ms. Zille a platform under the guise that she is a leader of the opposition to continue with the Zuma onslaught. We call on Zille to desist from personal grandstanding and respect President Zuma, as he was elected democratically by the people of our country. Zille should further understand and accept that Western Cape and the City of Cape are part of South Africa and they are not a colony of her racist DA. President Zuma is the President for all South Africans including Zille if she is truly South African and he deserves all our respects. Issued by YCLSA National Secretary Buti Manamela Contact: Castro Ngobese YCLSA National Spokesperson – 082 567 3557 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
