Prof Andre Duvenage, a political analyst at the Potchefstroom University, not really known for ANC bashing at all, has written an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa in which he pulls no punches. He has blown the whistle and blown it hard over the ANC’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
It is a long letter and this is not a direct translation but an attempt to capture the main thoughts of the letter. (Added comment in brackets by the writer of this article).
Prof Duvenage wrote that in future historians might look back and describe present day South Africa as the time of the Big Lie. As the saying goes : In time of war, and we stand in the time of war, truth is the first victim.
The professor wrote that more evidence is pointing to the ANC reading and interpreting the COVID-19 crisis incorrectly or maybe it was a deliberate and well planned exercise with hidden political motives and objectives (like cracking down and establishing a ZANU-PF like police state , deepen discrimination and repression of the white minority and make money from the emergency tenders justified during the COVID-19 crisis).
Prof Duvenage wrote the nature of this man made (ANC made) disaster unfolding in front of us will eventually be bigger than any worst case damage inflicted by COVID-19. (This statement is very important to take notice of and has tremendous implications. It is also true when considering that the Treasury department is now predicting job losses of 7 million which will cause tremendous hardship and famine. Also consider that it seems we are now living in a dictatorship complete with a sinister National Command Council controlling every aspect of our lives, even when we are allowed to exercise).
Prof Duvenage says that even if there was no political objectives with the lockdown declaration, it is now definitely a political battlefield for the faction supporting President Ramaphosa on the one side and the faction supporting the Zumas and Magashule on the other side. (Bear in mind Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (the woman who never smiles) is in charge of the National Command Council).
(Prof Duvenage points to the fact that Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma even vetoed Ramaphosa on smoking cigarettes with Ramaphosa initially saying we could smoke in stage 4 and then ” Dr Twak” NDZ saying we cant.)
The cigarette debacle points to the weakness of Ramaphosa within the ANC says the professor.
According to Prof Duvenage the political hyenas in the ANC are so active that the Zuma/Magashule faction might even rope in Julius Malema to get numbers against Ramaphosa. (Logical if you think about it.)
What a political scenario for law abiding citizens exclaims the Prof. Especially to the white minority that has to contribute so much to the fiscus but who are now cut off from official assistance programs because they are white and whose poor in squatter camps cant even get a food parcel because they are white. (How moronic can you be as a white person to still sing Ramaphosa’s praises? Don’t you know he is still the captain of this sinking ship? Is liberalism such a debilitating mental illness that you cant see the trees as wood anymore?).
The Prof writes that as the crisis escalates it has tremendous implications for democracy and stability in South Africa ( what democracy and stability because that boat has sailed. It is gone). Prof Duvenage asks if this is not just another big looting and state capture exercise? For instance the over R 400 million spent on Cuban doctors. How much of that landed in pockets of officials and politicians?
The Professor writes that the nation has had it with the ANC’s handling of COVID-19 like the ridiculous over regulation and arbitrary rules together with the ANC flattening the economy and jobs instead of the COVID-19 curve.
Prof Duvenage writes that many are ready to start a campaign of civil disobedience and just start ignoring ridiculous and arbitrary rules and regulations. They are ready to rebel and tell Ramaphosa they will rather take their chances with the virus rather than be killed off by another far worse virus – the ANC.
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