DEAR Editor,-
I really appreciate that I, with commissar Mjeqezi, who represents the communist party’s real side, are on the same flight path, but sitting at different windows and on opposite sides. Both of us are looking down to earth and just like he raised awareness of the high level of corruption that occurs at the Ugu municipality, so did I.
It is unfortunate that he doesn’t name people while they are well-known as I had in my contribution before, because they change departments and local municipalities as quickly as they move from room to room at home.
Obviously he can’t mention them because they are the ‘deployees’ and are guilty of all corruption under the banner of progressive political formations that his party resolved in 1929.
Is it still relevant commissar? Even though it is evident that the roots are rotten, you continue to climb the tree because it was resolved in 1929. No, please analyse.
Commissar Mjeqezi referred to comrade Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge as a Marxist who had forgotten the teachings – no commissar, she has mature principles.
It seems as if you have not been analysing from a communist’s viewpoint if you concluded that the current party’s leaders are occupying key centres of power and have not swelled it, but committed class suicide and used the party to become ‘Big Red Communists’ in the stomach of ‘Big Capitalists’.
Where do the working class and the poor fit in? These people are creating wealth for their grandchildren, and their suits which were a perfect fit when they were that size, no longer fit around the collars.
As the working class and the poor of SA had been unfortunate that the space left by the struggle of former progressives has possibly been occupied by ‘Economic Freedom Fighters’ and the still ‘in the pipeline’ Movement for Socialism.
The working class and the poor are not corrupt and have no political home because those parties who are now in government are just a vanguard. Mjeqezi, you are a light in South Coast politics, but unfortunately you are in a derailed, moving train.
So please jump, because once you delay, the ‘train drivers’ will award your security of surviving with a huge security tender, without following the Municipal Financial Management Act, which will be co-opted to you for life and only the man on the street will still call you ‘commissar’.
They know your survival instincts and will do to you as they have done to your leaders. Lastly, you made mention of the SACP and SAMWU plans for dealing with corruption. Please scrutinise those, comrade, as these people used to apply for leave from work when the workforce goes on industrial strike action.
Are these the kind of people you can rely on? This is politics on the South Coast. Trust no-one.
THEMBALAMASHINGA SHINGA
Gamalakhe, Qinabout
