I have over the last couple of days struggled with the idea of a free society in the height of the secrecy bill. What has been more alarming to me has been how the ruling tri-partied alliance has been so divided over how this bill should be rolled out and if its what south Africa needs right now. I don’t know quite honestly what the fuss about this bill is?
I mean if you trace back to the last 17 years, except Tony Yengeni (during Mbeki’s reign) and Shabir Shaik (at the end of Mbeki’s reign) no one has really been brought to book for any of the things that have been exposed/reveled/ put to public, surrounding corrupt practices by senior civil servants be them ministers, DG’s, associates and family politicians, note that I call family and friends civil servants deliberately because they have continued to reap the benefits normally reserved for civil servants in all abnormal countries called democracies.
So what was the noise really from the right to know foundation supported by SANEF? Was it just an issue of not selling enough papers for these previously white owned companies? Because nothing sells papers like a Malema expose you know!
So I have read this bill and I fear that it might just make it legal to raid Thuli Madonsela’s offices or even make Mzilikazi wa Afrika disappear longer than the time he spent in the hawks cells earlier this year, that it might be too important to try the killers of Jimmy Mohlala and Sammy Mpatlayana who believed they shouldn’t keep quite about how the tenders for the World Cup stadium in that province were handled. But hey lets wait a little here this has happened before and Black people fought it and won and now they are implementing it again! Bloody ironic hey! So now are we about to see white people take this on when Zuma signs it into law? White people surely won’t stand for that shit they’ll take the “bloody ANC” on all the way to the constitutional court right? Its mos their turn now?
Also call me optimistic but I know this rubbish piece of legislation will never be legally practiced in this country and but if it does it wouldn’t affect you differently, here are my 21 reasons why:
1. The ANC is scared of the constitutional court. (Ask Afri-Forum, plus they always take unprepared cases there)
2. The ANC is still dealing with hiding its mess in public administration and by the time they finish with that they would have forgotten about the bill.
3. The ANC has practiced the bill illegally all these years and it never affected you, so why would they go to the trouble of making it legal?
4. Because we live with thugs in our communities and we don’t snitch.
5. Because Eric Miyeni will remind us of what we do to snitches. (I love this one)
6. Because COSATU is a member of the ANC and they haven’t eaten.
7. Because Julius doesn’t understand what the bill means. (otherwise why wouldn’t he have supported this when it is developed to ensure we never know how he got this rich)
8. Because the sense of state doesn’t exist in our country. (Lets face it Zuma will never appreciate South Africa the way Mangope appreciated Bophuthatswana Mangope had a plan for his republic while our president seems clueless sometimes)
9. Because South Africa is the only country you can be fired from cabinet and remain an MP instead of heading to the courts because you have a case to hear and opposition is quite)
10. Because opposition parties are good at reacting and with President of the opposition parties (Hellen Zille) in charge this shit wont fly.
11. Because Vavi wants to be an MP and the longer he sounds like opposition the more it delays the ANC from implementing the bill.
12. Because it didn’t work under the NP rule
13. Because it wouldn’t work under ANC rule (actually what does work under their rule?)
14. Because the ANC MP’s didn’t really read the bill (they just understood that it would protect them from going to prison)
15. Because South Africa is much better than Zimbabwe and it would never be a Zimbabwe proto-type with or without the civil war.
16. Because 90% of the protesters protest about everything for free T-shirts and a bus ride to town.
17. Because they ANC is planning multiple parties for next year. (who going to be busy kidnapping people when everyone is partying a tender storm?)
18. Because SNI will adopt a position to join all civil society movements opposing implementation of this bill on their own terms. (Otherwise Andile, Masello and Matjamela pasop)
19. That this bill has nothing to do with freedom of speech you can still pretty much say the shit you want to say just be careful that you don’t walk around dark alleys when you have classified documents in your house.
20. Because when the two white lawyers who are going to make money from this case at the constitutional court are done arguing the case the judges are going to send it right back to parliament to fix. (Imagine the tax that could have fixed roads in Zwelitsha, Gugulethu, Seshego going to some guys living in Paarl and Duinfern)
21. and my favourite: “"check this: in 1982 Luwell Landers was a deputy minister in PW Botha's white supremacist cabinet when they passed laws against blacks. In 2011 MP Luwell Landers is the chairperson of a parliamentary adhoc committee of the ANC! He chaired the passing of the SECRECY ACT! And you want to tell me that the ANC is not the National Party in drag? How do ANC members explain this shit to themselves mara?" - Andile Mngxitama. Makes you think. Just a lil bit.
So Ja there call me ignorant, racist, arrogant, dumb, full of shit, loud mouth (and if you really like me) optimist and rascal but this piece of rubbish law will never see the light of day in South Africa for as long as there are white people, who are the actually the real owners of everything not just the economy, I mean the justice system, the land where illegal squatter camps are built, the companies that are using the fronts of BEE to build us shitty roads, houses, Education and health facilities.
They are the main train behind the ANC delaying every possible opportunity for black people getting a better deal out of their own suffering?! I swear by them on my grand fathers grave. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN
“Material want is bad enough but coupled with spiritual poverty it kills” – Biko
Vuka Darkie
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