JUST A THOUGHT - ON THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS' DILEMMA AND JACOB ZUMA'S DOOM! PART 1.

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South Africa and its people, or, rather, a large proportion of them, are having a tough time. 

Something which is not made any less untenable by President Jacob Zuma's corrupt and authoritarian rule of the country, and the adverse impact it is having on the country's financial, economic and political standing. 

For the elites, President Zuma's saving grave is also what is his vice for the majority of South Africans; his corrupt nature. 

Him wanting it all, not for the common people, as it were, but for himself. 

President Zuma is motivated by his own self-interest, his desire to achieve great wealth, which he has now acquired, but which might be, figuratively, forced down his stomach.


If President Jacob Zuma had been a bit more like the former President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. 

A bit more principled and ideologically driven, then, the elites of South African, especially the white South African elites, might have been divested of much of their accumulated landed and business wealth. 

I am not saying they should be, just that it is likely that they might have been. 

President Zuma's replacement as leader of the African National Congress,  Cyril Ramaphosa, is probably more ideologically driven than Jacob Zuma. 

But, being a wealthy business man, he might be expected to deal with the conflict of interest between South Africa's haves and havesnot, with more longitudinal prudence than Robert Mugabe has done for Zimbabweans.

Probably to a great extent, what South Africans, both her people and her government and ruling party is confronting at present, is their 'Robert Mugabe Moment.'  

A situation which, ironically, President Zuma had played a role in resolving; probably resulting in the former President Robert Mugabe being left in a better position, out of office, than he, Jacob Zuma will be,

The are at the point where the interests of the ruling political party and the government which has formed, are no longer self-evidently working in the best interest of either the country or its people. 

To be continued!




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