The election battle for the leadership of the ANC in Gauteng is over and Paul Mashatile has ben re-elected as chairman. Good news or bad news? That is not the point of this article. What interests me more is what he said when questioned about his relationship with Nomvula Mokhanyane.
The media and opposition parties have asked whether or not his disagreements with Mokhanyane will affect service delivery. They also asked if Mokhanyane will be fired; he stated that she will keep her job as long as she does what the ANC tells her to do. On the surface this seems like a simple enough answer but scratch the surface and his answer reveals the heart of the ANC. Mokhanyane is not answerable to Paul Mashatile, the ANC, or even Jacob Zuma; she is answerable to us, the voting public but the ANC does not care.
In 2008 the ANC came out in public and said that Thabo Mbeki would be removed as the president of the country. The ANC has an overwhelming majority in Parliament, thus the removal of Mbeki was a fait accompli but the vote still had to take place in Parliament. The ANC showed their contempt for both Parliament and government by announcing his removal before even mentioning it to Parliament.
The ANC does not believe in democracy or Parliament, they feel that they are single-handedly controlling South Africa and until the voting public stand up and vote for someone else, the ANC will continue this attitude and the ones who suffer will be you and I.
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