IN REPLY: Dream of a glorious ANC has not been destroyed – it has been deferred By Michael Van Olst
You’re quite right when you say my central point is that by giving the ANC a decisive victory, we will be strengthening President
Moseneke went on to say there are other powers such as the power to appoint judicial commissions of enquiry, the power to establish an intelligence service, to appoint the five members of the IEC and to designate four of the JSC members etc etc. The then-Deputy Chief Justice warned that in exercising this “remarkable concentration” of powers, the President does so by and large within his “exclusive discretion”.
I, therefore, call on every patriotic South African to take part and actually support the many excellent civil society organisations we have in the country. Our support can be financial, it can be by offering our skills and expertise and also coming in numbers when they go on marches to fight the many worthy causes they take on.
It is not for President Ramaphosa to campaign and fight to have these qualities as the basic requirements for election. I do not know what you expect him to do when the compromised and captured branches nominate and elect questionable characters to go to Parliament. If anything, it is us and progressive civil society organisations who must insist that electoral laws must be changed to put these basic requirements of “fit and proper” in place for our elected office bearers.
I see you also repeat the narrative that Ramaphosa sat there quietly and did nothing while Zuma was wreaking havoc. People conveniently forget or overlook the fact that the Deputy President has no original powers in terms of our constitution. In fact, the Deputy President also serves at the pleasure and discretion of the President. If Ramaphosa had stepped out of line, Zuma would have simply fired him. Where would that have got the country? I’m glad Ramaphosa chose to bide his time.
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