On the way to work today, I picked up the Metro newspaper andfound myself looking at the laughing face of Jacob Zuma after the not guilty verdict was read out. Then I saw pictures of his fanatical and die hard supporters, cheering him on. I need to vent out my anger, frustration, and arrrgrrgrggrrrrgggg!!!
As a fellow South African, I can say that it is indeed a sad day for South African politics and the nation. How can a man who faces corruption charges, be reinstated as deputy president of the ANC. It’s shocking. And how can he placed in such a high position of power, when he is not even educated in the basic prevention of Aids. He is living in a country with the highest rate of AIDS infection in the world - yet he is so ignorant and arrogant about the fact that he had unprotected sex with a women with Aids and thought he would "wash himself clean" in the shower! Where is his logic? Where is his common sense? And this coming from a man set to be the next president.
There will never be fair justice in South Africa for the politicians that continue to corrupt and be corrupted. He may have been found innocent of rape charges, but what next? Now all his supporters will use this verdict as a campaign to ‘prove’ that Zuma is the man to take the next presidency. Where is the logic and common sense of these people – seriously if they can support a man who is still facing corruption charges - corruption of the very people he claims to ‘love and would die for’. It’s a joke.
Not to mention that its the tax payers who gets to foot his entourage of lawyers' bills for both cases. Good to see our nations money is being so well spent not by the politicians, but FOR the politicians.
I saw a documentary on channel 4 last week about the appalling conditions in Kenya. In one scene you saw almost a million people living on the biggest rubbish dump in the world, trying to exist in a country that will not even acknowledge their existence. Then in the next scene you see the ministers of Kenya all decked out in suits outside the parliament, driving away in the latest Mercedes Benz’s.
The investigator made such a startlingly accurate observations that if the African leaders would get over their insatiable lust for money and power, only then will the African people they ‘serve’ be truly served.
I vented my anger on the www.bbc.co.uk/news website and found these comments from people all over the world.
“What saddens me more than anything about not only the trial itself but also the circus that surrounded it (both media and various groups) trivialised not only the right to due process but also the courts ruling in this regard. This trail (circus) has set womens' rights in South Africa back 20 years, and any good that had so far been done in terms of educating the masses about HIV/AIDS and rape is now laid to waste.”
“What i can´t find an answer to yet,is this educated leaders who are suppose to bring about changes, goes about having unprotected sex and enriching themselves with public funds.”
“Guilty or not guilty, the whole episode is a serious indictment to Africa. We have leaders who say one thing and practice another. What makes this whole saga sickening is the fact that we have gullible men and women who blindly follow leaders just because they are from the same tribe. Zuma is morally dispicable and has shown a weaknesses that are unbecoming of a future leader. Zuma's supporters have nothing whatsoever to celebrate. With leaders of Zuma's calibre, South is headed for disaster. Just look to the north of Limpompo to see what a reckless leadership can do to a country.”
“Just a thought. If the complainant has to go into exile what will happen to the judge who takes the corruption case should he not rule in Zuma's favour.”
“Its a sad day for SA. Being black, I had hoped that we could have shown we are not like the rest of Africa, where power means you can do what you feel like and get away with it. Anyone with some common sense know what Zuma is, powercrazed and corrupt. I'm sure he'll be freed of the corruption charges even if anyone can see that his earnings could never pay for his lifestyle and property buys.Sadly the masses are easaly led and education is lacking, this makes it easy to corrupt these people.Now I can only see SA go the way of Zimbabwe - shame on us.”
“As a South African living abroad I felt this trail a least brought to light the evidence that he is not fit to be deputy or ever president. His poor knowledge of Aids , something that is affecting millions is unacceptable!”
