Editor
TO the educated and logically-minded, the following will make a lot of sense and, if addressed soon, will go a long way to solving SA’s political crisis:
1. Obviously President Jacob Zuma knew about R240-million being spent on his Nkandla home, and a lot of it going into luxuries, NOT security upgrades. Come on JZ, admit guilt and pay back the money. After all, its only you and your family who will live there and enjoy the mansion.
2. The EFF is 100 per cent correct that whites CANNOT own the majority of SA land, but to suggest it must be ‘ taken back without compensation’? Now that would create unnecessary conflict. Expropriation WITH compensation is the only possible solution if the land is not sold willingly.
3. The freedom charter of the ANC is the answer to liberty, fairness, prosperity and equality for all in SA. It seems greed has gotten the better of many ANC leaders. What a shame that the government has drifted so far from what Nelson Mandela stood for, and the example he set when he was president.
4. Lastly, there are more and more South Africans now wondering why the ANC still supports JZ. He suffers daily ridicule, and it is a matter of time before the judiciary finds him guilty of corruption. He has already been judged, in a court of law, to have enjoyed a corrupt relationship with Schabir Shaik, and there is more to come, including the Nkandla saga. Surely, to save the nation and embarrassment to JZ himself, and to encourage international investment, the ANC should quietly encourage him to step down and replace him with a true leader – one who is prepared to drive a Toyota Corolla and earn half of JZ’s salary, namely a president who truly desires to serve the people and lives humbly, like most South Africans do.
Derek Krummeck
uMhlanga
