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An open letter to the ANC from Evita Bezuidenhout aka satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys
 [The South African] I have been a member since July 2014 and as a loyal cadre have been operational where the party has deployed me without question - in the kitchen of Luthuli House, cooking for reconciliation.Dear Comrades I am not writing this in my personal capacity as a gogo, a citizen and a democrat, but as a member of the ANC. I have been a member since July 2014 and as a loyal cadre have been operational where the party has deployed me without question - in the kitchen of Luthuli House [ANC Headquarters] , cooking for reconciliation. I asked a simple question: ’What do people think of when they see a fat politician in parliament?’ They immediately think of a thin voter. And many ANC voters are poorer and thinner than ever before. All Julius Malema has to do this 2019 General Election is promise them everything and anything and they will vote him and his party into power democratically. I was supported by Pravin Gordhan and the treasury to put the cabinet on a diet. The diet has worked. Members of cabinet were seen recently fitting into economy-class seats on SAA. The results of the municipal elections were not unexpected. What was remarkable was the brilliant performance of the IEC and the mass of voters who proved that they have learned a lot in the last 21 years. The fact that we in the ANC conceded defeat where we lost ground is also a good indication of a free and fair election. But my life in the kitchen has become hard to bear. From mid-morning to late at night, streams of comrades slip in under the pretext of asking for a bottle of still water. They just sit and shake their heads. They need, not only comfort food after the election results, but also comforting advice from someone who has seen it all before. Hopefully we'll have a few comrades 'shaking their heads' here after November as well. I was a faithful cadre in the Afrikaanse Nasionale Kongres, also known as the National Party. My husband was a cabinet minister only promoted because of his slavish devotion to he whom we called Number One. We all became fat, rewarded for nodding in agreement without question and allowing the corrupt to overpower the committed. It was easy then because we called corruption ’policy’ and it ruled the country from 1948 to 1994. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-15 |
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