Don’t give the corrupt space to operate, says Chikane
More than 300 prominent South Africans, including veteran ANC members, are supporting a campaign to save South Africa’s democracy. They claim it is not aimed at specific people, but against a wave of corruption throughout the country.
Reverend Frank Chikane, head of the SA Council of Churches in the 1980s, said the aim of the Defend our Democracy campaign was to push back against people insistent on defying the law and the constitution.
“It’s not just about former president Jacob Zuma defying the Constitutional Court, it’s about a wave of corruption engulfing South Africans for years now,” Chikane said.
This follows after they handed a statement of demands to justice minister Ronald Lamola last week.
In the meantime Zuma hit back at the Constitutional Court and the Zondo commission after the court heard an argument that he must be jailed for contempt because he did not testify before the Zondo commission.
In a statement issued late on Thursday last week, the former president claims that South Africa was heading for a crisis in which the masses would be forced to revolt against the courts for exceeding their powers.
“I strongly agree with the public sentiment that sees the emergence of a judicial dictatorship in South Africa.
“Unfortunately, when people rise up against this judicial corruption, our young democracy will unravel and many democratic gains will be lost in the ashes. That will be all that is left of what used to be our democratic state,” the statement read.
More than 9 000 people countrywide have signed the campaign’s petition.
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