“But I am Innocent!” Yeah Right.

In English there is a saying, “You protest too much!” that simply means you wouldn’t be making so much noise if you were not covering something up. I think this could well be the case with Mr. Zuma and his supporters, namely the Youth League and company.
Don’t get me wrong, I would prefer it if Mr. Zuma was found to be innocent, especially if he is to be our next President. Does the Youth League seriously believe the International community would take us as a county seriously, if it was found that we elected a President who was guilty or even suspected of being involved in any way in this type of crime or any other criminal dealings for that matter? If he has nothing to hide why has he spent so much money in trying to prevent his case going before the courts, and trying to prevent the NPA from obtaining the necessary documents and evidence in relation to his case? Incidentally, the money that is being spent on his court case is not his money or money from his supporters; it belongs to the people of this country, it is Tax Payers money. How many houses or schools could we have built for the money already spent on this matter?
Julius and the Youth League, “We will take up arms and die for Zuma if he goes to trial!” Oh really, obviously Julius you have never been in combat, or known the fear and deprivations experienced by those who have been alone in enemy territory being hunted relentlessly by a merciless enemy, if you had you wouldn’t make such stupid remarks. You have not suffered the pain of serious wounds inflicted by war; I have, and believe me, war is not something to be contemplated lightly. If you are so certain of Mr. Zama’s innocence why fear the judicial system? “The truth will set you free!” Or in this case maybe not.
Fraud and corruption are serious criminal acts not just a political misdemeanour, so how can one expect a political solution be found for them? I am not saying that that clemency cannot be granted by the President for these crimes, as a political solution in this particular matter, but for the President to grant clemency the person applying must first have been convicted, and for that to happen, that person must first stand trial in a court of law and be found guilty.
The Youth League and others of their ilk keep screaming about Mr. Zuma not being able to receive a fair trial in this case, blaming the NPA and press for this state of affairs. They could well be right with regard receiving a fair trial, but they have conveniently forgotten the fact that it is their own rhetoric, and threats of violence and disorder that has most probably had more to do with the public perception that Mr. Zuma may well be guilty, or the very least of hiding something than anything the NPA may have done. That is also, apart from all the shenanigans Mr. Zuma himself is responsible for in preventing the collection of any evidence of any wrong doing coming to light, or anything the press may have printed. After all the press is only doing its job and we are all aware of the press’s propensity to sensationalism it sells. Let’s face it though, if allegations of wrong doing where levelled at ether you or I and we were not guilty of doing anything, we would be only too willing for them to find it so that we could refute any evidence in court and clear our names, further the more prominent a person is the more likely that dung thrown into the fan will stick to them if they stand in front of it. So, Mr. Zuma if you are not guilty of anything, go to court and show the world you are innocent and let’s stop this clowning around. We need this money for the poor.
Speaking of the poor, I have noticed all the politicians crawling out of their various holes, having hidden all their wealth first and bragging about all the good things they have done, promising the sun, moon and stars again if you vote for them. When are they going to realise, the poor are poor, not stupid. If you haven’t delivered yet, what makes you think we believe you will be able to deliver now?
To be fair though, the government have not done a bad job. Crime is on the increase, especially violent crime; the cost of living is up, unemployment is high, corruption excellent and service delivery not too good at all. We can’t have everything our own way though with health care at all time lows and education nonexistent not to mention the increasing incidents of school violence and violent attacks on the nurses or the abuse of our judicial system.
All is not lost though; we have a new President. He has been tasked with the job of preventing this ship from sinking before the general elections next year. He has a whole eight months, or less, in which to do this. His only problem being he has only five fingers on each hand and we have about fifty leaks to plug, an almost impossible job, even if he takes off his shoes and uses his toes as well. Never fear though, he has the ANC collective to help him, or so we are told and if of course he can convince them to bail instead of cheering him on from the lifeboats.
Joking aside I believe he could well be our saving grace if given the chance. By removing Health Minister, and the way in which he has gone about reorganising the cabinet tells me he is a man on a mission, let’s all hope it’s not a suicide mission. He unfortunately chose to reassign the Health Minister to another position rather than sending her off to the farm, where she could cultivate her beetroot and garlic to her heart’s content, I only hope she is able to do less damage in her new possession than she did in her last. He is also a man of integrity and honesty; at least he has the courage to admit there is a crisis when one exists and goes about telling us what he intends doing about it rather than pretending it does not exist at all. I hope the ANC has the courage to stand by the new President and allow law and order to prevail regardless of the outcome, and not “run for them thar hills” when the shit hits the fan as it most likely will.