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Sa, 22 September 2007 11:16  |
Ferdi
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UDF aktivis en voormalige mensregte-kommissaris, Rhoda Kadalie, in
Donderdag se Business Day:
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Deep love, blind loyalty and real SABC madness
IN THIS column I will comment on three separate media issues, all
related. One has to do with an undeserved eulogy for the African
National Congress (ANC) that appeared in Rapport last week; another
with the parliamentary speaker's unholy tit-for-tat with Democratic
Alliance (DA) MP Mike Waters; and the third with the proposed SABC
board candidates.
In his regular column in Rapport on September 9, Prof Jakes Gerwel
confirms his editor's remark that there are few Afrikaans speakers who
love the ANC as deeply as he does, claiming that this deep love
(innige liefde) is more than just blind loyalty. It is a love for a
party that represents the hopes and dreams of South Africans like no
other. This love for the ANC is a connection to and an affection
(verknogtheid) for the nation's aspirations enshrined in the Freedom
Charter; it is an admiration for a leadership that was politically
moral. And so this love declaration continues, with a few caveats that
the succession battle might temporarily derail it, but on the whole it
is doing well. The economy is strong, our political system is solid,
institutions are functioning well, and civil society is vibrant.
One must either be delusional or desperate to write a love ode to a
party that has failed in every way, that is in dire straits and that
has long lost the plot. The column ends reassuring Madiba that he,
Gerwel, will never turn his back on the ANC. How can one make such an
unqualified commitment to something as ephemeral as a political party?
Political parties come and go and, if anything, they should be loyal
to their members, not the other way around. It is precisely this blind
loyalty that has become the fatal flaw inherent in the party. Has this
innige liefde perhaps something to do with his own vested interests
that are so intricately tied up with the ruling elite, in the same way
as the speaker of Parliament, Baleka Mbete, finds it impossible to be
independent and impartial, as we saw with her response to Waters?
When Waters raised a perfectly normal question about the criminal
conviction of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and her
suitability for high office, he was ejected from Parliament. As has
become customary in South African politics, the messenger gets shot
and his behaviour becomes the problem, not the one about whom he
raised the question. He gets accused of demeaning the Âdignity of
Parliament, as though it has any.
If anyone was unbecoming, it was Mbete, who behaved like a Cape Flats
skollie and who, by her very presence, insults Parliament daily.
Implicated in the travel scandal and a recipient of a fraudulent
driving licence, as investigated by the Moldenhauer commission, she is
neither fit nor proper to be speaker. So despite everyone's ranting
and raving that Waters behaved badly, his behaviour was perfectly in
line with what opposition is meant to do, and to do robustly.
And this brings me to the wretched SABC, about which I have written
numerous columns over the years. While most critiques were directed at
the past board members, who failed spectacularly in protecting the
integrity of the broadcaster, the new ones are similarly suspect in
their various linkages to the president.
For one, Pansy Tlakula is chief electoral officer and, as such, has to
be completely impartial. To even agree to stand shows how out of
kilter she is with the requirements of her job. Her job is to monitor
the SABC during elections and ensure it is impartial in its treatment
of all political parties. Second, the fear that Christine Qunta might
ascend to the chair is very real, and to appoint her to this position
would be like making Robert McBride safety and security minister.
Qunta defies every tenet of objectivity, independence and impartiality
that one would require of the head of the public broadcaster. In her
columns, she tops the list as Queen of Racist Politics, so much so
that in response to one of her columns in the Cape Argus, I commented
that if apartheid had not existed, she would have invented it.
Having lived mostly in Australia while we were busy with the struggle,
Qunta suffers from the syndrome of having to prove her political
credentials by sucking up to those in power.
Kadalie is a human rights activist based in Cape Town.
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| Re: Ooor ANC twee (vir Glkoudina) [boodskap #114813 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #114811] |
Sa, 22 September 2007 17:04  |
duif
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:16:06 +0200, Ferdi wrote:
> UDF aktivis en voormalige mensregte-kommissaris, Rhoda Kadalie, in
> Donderdag se Business Day:
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> Deep love, blind loyalty and real SABC madness
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Moet nie moeite doen nie Ferdi. Hulle handhaaf nie dieselfde waardes
as ons nie - en het buitendien 'n standbeeld van so vet mannetjie voor
hul voordeurom hulle te beskerm:-(
Onthou... hulle kom uit 'n ander wêreld. In Soweto het sy en haar man
gehoor hoe die soldate in die Kaspis Afrikaans praat (haar presiese
woorde!) en toe begin Engels praat omdat die soldate in die Kaspirs
Afrikaans gepraat het (!) steeds haar woorde. Nevermaaind die feit dat
die rooinekke apartheid in die land begin het - met 'n
konsentrasiedraad as grens - en dat die wagte by die konsentrasiekamp
se apartheidsheining Engels gepraat het, kon sy nie hoor nie, want sy
was te ver daarvandaan - binne in Soweto.
Derdewêrelds - sy sal nie handdoek ingooi nie maar pleit beserings -
beskuldig Google daarvan - of enige iemand anders as sy self -
hulle behoort weer te emigreer - na midde Afrika die keer -
dis waar hul Pigmee kultuur tuishoort.
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