Max Du Preez wrote: "if only the white people of south africa were all as passionate about the removal of apartheid laws back then as they are about Jacob Zuma and his Corruption cronies, this country would be far"
I couldn't agree more with him and this analogy can be extend to feesmustfall, unemployment, poverty, inequality, service delivery protests etc..
Corruption in government has always been rife, Zuma has always been President since 2009. now that he (Zuma) is fiddling with the economy (which is still predominantly still in white hands thanks to apartheid laws) there is an uprising.. don't get me wrong, I don't like him one bit and would love to see him gone.. In a nutshell what I'm saying is that it is human nature to seek an advantage, to preserve that advantage.. human beings will only revolt when they are touched on their studio..
Hence we saw the "feesmustfall" movement having fewer white people and fewer black middle class than with the current call.. there is also fewer of US with other protests in the country as they do not affect us in our High Walls..
I am all for Radical Economic Transformation.. but I also question the timing and the reasoning! it is surely being used for wrong reasons. why now? since 2009 he has been silent on it. why now? because his term is coming to end and only now he is trying to be relevant in the eyes of the ANC voters. because it is a perfect excuse to fight "white monopoly capital" as they put it, and capture the treasury for himself and his associates (Guptas and them) and not for the benefit of South Africans (especially previously disadvantaged).
Unfortunately only the ANC and its Alliance partners can remove Zuma. Other than that the ANC will suffer the consequences on the ballot in the next national elections, as was seen with the local elections.
I love the ANC so much that I had to vote against it in the previous elections, to punish them and shake them up.. Clearly they have not learnt and are still protecting Zuma, and for that I will meet them at the polls. I still believe in the ANC and its policies..