Mr President, please respect the National Liberation Movement and its founders.
Mr Jacob Zuma’s duty is to protect the public funds and he is the principal of the Constitution.
He made it through as the ANC president in 2007 and became the country’s President in 2009.
This was despite what he and his party saw as a concerted media onslaught against him.
The President must take responsibility and account for his exercise of public power.
He must not forget that the legitimacy of his leadership is derived from public trust.
He has never publicly accepted responsibility as head or part of the leadership of the ANC.
Yes, the ANC has a good story to tell, but not Mr Zuma.
Though he is not personally liable for the building of his home, he did not stand up and account for his department’s actions.
Mr Zuma was fired by then President Thabo Mbeki in 2009 while he was the deputy president.
He offered to step down from the party’s leadership position in order to clear his name.
However, it was Mr Nathi Mthethwa, Minister of Police, who insisted that delegates at the policy conference in 2005 should discuss Mr Zuma’s political future.
Mr Zuma created the impression that he had been forced to step down.
Delegates attacked Mr Mbeki’s leadership and the council became a forum to ensure Mr Zuma remains in a leadership position.
His choices, decisions, conduct and character did not matter to them as long as he survived political and criminal charges against, him were viewed as part of a thickening plot by conspirators who wanted to get rid of the “son of Inkandla Town”.
I appeal to leaders of the country to protect the office of the Public Protector.
Nono Maseko, eMbalenhle.
