Fact is: some degree of patronage is practiced by all political parties globally. The restraining element is depth of prevailing culture of accountability. But the ANC has turned patronage and corruption into an enterprise. Its structurally embedded.
Study all the ANC municipalities to understand its eggregiousness. How did we get here?? Foundation was laid in the malfeasance surrounding the arms deal. That was the baptism of fire and hell. When COSATU and the SACP realised that Mbeki wanted to dissolve
the Tripartite Alliance after he introduced GEAR policy, they engineered a palace coup with Malema and JZ (with a deeply compromised character and battling a rape case). The driving motivation was to protect their eating opportunities in the state feeding
Trough located in offices of state power. The interests of the citizens were immaterial. When JZ took power, an orchestrated orgy of looting, patronage and corruption ensued. The ANC CANNOT pretend that they were not aware. They supported and protected
JZ even in Parliament. Parliament was even excoriated by the CCourt over Nkandla etc. How then can the ANC define the last ten years as lost opportunity. They created co text for state capture.This statement by the Pres is untenable: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1184711…
