News24 By News24
Well, how about a December holiday then! The ANC’s year couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start.
The inferno which destroyed the historic National Assembly has become emblematic of the general malaise the country finds itself in thanks to the ANC’s government. Although final reports by various investigators are still to be completed, it is becoming increasingly clear that poor maintenance and governance at Parliament was chiefly responsible for the blaze. And to many, this shouldn’t come as a surprise, given the ANC’s general poor performance and criminality at every level of governance.
In the same week, the Zondo Commission released part one of its report into state capture, which in any functioning democracy should represent a death knell for a party implicated to the degree to which the ANC has been implicated here. State capture was introduced and entrenched under the party’s leadership by its then-president, Jacob Zuma.
And Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is scathing about the party’s role. This is what he says about the gutting of SAA, Eskom and Denel: “The decline happened over a number of years, but both the government and the ruling party failed dismally to make any effective interventions to halt the decline.
