The authorities have taken stock and the age of accountability has been set in motion
Diversion and what-aboutism seem be instinctive, knee-jerk reflexes that are becoming almost pervasive in our contemporary political discourse. Too often in our politics, the answer to the question: “Why did you do this wrong thing”, is not always the naturally expected: “I didn’t do it” or “I did it because ...
For those of us with our sleeves rolled up and mired knee-deep in the grimy and grubby fight to dismantle state capture, it has at times felt like a relentless horror show. Many a time personnel, leaders and cadres entrusted with the task of governance find themselves in the dock, not for making the ANC an effective instrument of the liberation in the hands of the people, but for motives and deeds that have resulted in material personal gain.
These perceptions are held by society, of the ANC, the movement of the people. Their spear with which they were to fight for a thorough transformation of our society, the shield with which they were to defend their revolutionary, democratic gains and the wheel that was meant to propel them forward to a free, democratic, nonracial, non-sexist society.
The age of aversion of issues, diversion, obfuscation and what-aboutism is over. The times, they are changing. The age of accountability is at hand. As radio personality and a renowned crime reporter Mandy Weiner says “it is simply not enough to just lament the failings and feel the despair and ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’. We have to build on the hope.”
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