It is going to take more than sweet talk to make South Africans forget you stole their future.
ANC flag. Picture, supplied.
There aren’t enough T-shirts or bags of mealie meal to buy the votes the ANC needs to restore it to the status of South Africa’s top dog, politically.
Perhaps that realisation is sinking in at Luthuli House as we head towards the local government elections in November.
So, the party appears to be trying a unique approach: a little honesty.
We say a little because the ANC is still a long way from admitting to itself, never mind the public, that it is responsible for the mess the country currently finds itself in.
Also, the word honesty is doing heavy lifting, especially in an ANC context – because the rampant corruption and looting of its cadres since 1994 are the very essence of dishonesty.
Yet, first secretary-general Fikile Mbalula and, now, President Cyril Ramaphosa have admitted that there have been “weaknesses” and there have been “failures”.
Both gents are in line for the Gold Medal in Understatement at the Hot Air Olympics for those assertions.
The disappearance of upwards of R1.5 trillion in taxpayers’ money into ANC pockets in 32 years is a catastrophic national disaster.
Fact. It is going to take more than sweet talk to make South Africans forget you stole their future.
