As the totalitarian jackboot comes down hard on law abiding citizens in SA, a political analyst, who does not usually bash the ANC, says we are living in the time of the Big Lie. Prof Andre Duvenage a political analyst at the Potchefstroom University, has written an open letter to Cyril Ramaphosa in which he pulls no punches. Prof Duvenage wrote that in the future historians might look back and describe present day South Africa as the time of the Big Lie. He has blown the whistle and blown it hard over the ANC’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. It is a long letter so we will only attempt to comment on the main thoughts of the letter.
As the saying goes: In time of war, truth is the first victim. More evidence is pointing to the ANC reading and interpreting the COVID-19 crisis incorrectly, or maybe it was a deliberate and well planned exercise with hidden political motives and objectives, (like cracking down and establishing a ZANU-PF like police state, deepen discrimination and repression of the white minority, and make money from the emergency tenders justified during the COVID-19 crisis).
Prof Duvenage wrote that the nature of this man (ANC) made disaster unfolding in front of us, will eventually be bigger than any worst case damage inflicted by COVID-19, and he is ominously spot on, for instance when considering that the Treasury department is now predicting job losses of 7 Million, which will cause tremendous hardship and famine. The disaster response has also allowed the regime to put us in a situation where we are now living under a dictatorship, complete with a sinister National Command Council controlling every aspect of our lives, even when we are allowed to exercise!
Prof. Duvenage also points out that even if there was no political objectives with the lockdown declaration, it is now definitely a political battlefield for the faction supporting Ramaphosa on the one side, and the faction supporting the Zumas and Magashule on the other side. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (NDZ), who never smiles, is in charge of the National Command Council and Prof. Duvenage points to the fact that NDZ even vetoed Ramaphosa on smoking cigarettes, with Ramaphosa initially saying we could smoke in stage 4 and then “Dr. Twak” NDZ saying we can’t. Whether her friend, Adriano Mazzotti, who is making millions out of illegal cigarette smuggling, has anything to do with her veto, is something we will probably never know.
However, the cigarette debacle points to the weakness of Ramaphosa within the ANC and according to Prof. Duvenage, the political hyenas in the ANC are so active, that the Zuma/Magashule faction might even rope in Julius Malema to get numbers against Ramaphosa. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, is one of the first things they teach in commie school…
“What a political scenario for law abiding citizens” exclaims the Prof. Indeed, especially for the white minority that has to contribute so much to the state coffers, but who are now cut off from official assistance programs because they are white, and whose poor in squatter camps can’t even get a food parcel, because they are white. How moronic then must a white person be to still sing Ramaphosa’s praises? He is still the captain of the ship, although it is sinking. Is liberalism such a debilitating mental illness that you can’t see the forest for the trees anymore?
The Prof. writes that as the crisis escalates, it has tremendous implications for democracy and stability in South Africa, although that ship has long since sailed. It is gone. He asks if this is not just another big looting and state capture exercise? For instance the over R 400 Million spent on Cuban doctors. How much of that landed in pockets of officials and politicians? Any money that did go to Cuba would be paid direct to the Castro Dictatorship there, who then only give 10% to the doctors themselves as a stipend!
The Professor writes that the nation has had it with the ANC’s handling of COVID-19 like the ridiculous over regulation and arbitrary rules, together with the ANC flattening the economy and jobs instead of the COVID-19 curve. Prof, Duvenage writes that many are ready to start a campaign of civil disobedience and just start ignoring ridiculous and arbitrary rules and regulations. They are ready to rebel and tell Ramaphosa they will rather take their chances with the virus, than be killed off by another far worse virus – the ANC.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma flanked by self confessed cigarette smuggler Adriano Mazzotti, left, and Carnilinx chief operating officer Mohammadh Sayed.