THE OLD IS DEAD, BUT THE NEW REFUSES TO BE BORN

The old is dead, but the new refuses to be born.

The cold winter season is gone, but alas, the fresh spring season refuses to be ushered in.

Bankrupt political ideologies and slogans have been annihilated by common sense, yet new perspectives are reluctant to come to life and shine immortally.

The heartfelt sentiments expressed above, dear reader, encapsulate March and March Civic Movement’s reluctance or refusal to become a political party even when it is clear to all and sundry, including the civic movement’s adversaries, that Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma should be preparing herself to be the next president of South Africa.

Call me mad, call me angry, call me stupid, but I stand by my convictions that the 40-year-old lady from KwaMashu in Kwazulu Natal must consider running for the 2029 general elections and thereafter duly relocate to the Union Buildings in Pretoria/Tshwane after a landslide victory in the said elections.

She will then be my my neighbour as I live in the township of Mamelodi which is situated a few kilometres from the Union Buildings.

And I won’t mind having such a brave lady as a neighbour.

Now March and March’s decision to remain apolitical won’t be helpful to black and Coloured South Africans because it will allow dodgy characters, charlatans, thieves, sycophants and tenderpreneurs to continue subjecting South Africans to misrule.

Former President Thabo Mbeki’s “African Renaissance” ideology, which apparently entails all Africans running away from their home countries to come and live in South Africa, is clearly bankrupt now.

And Julius Malema’s slogan calling for open borders is not only insensitive to the concerns of local South African-born citizens but also unworkable.

Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma is proposing several ideas which are as fresh as the Spring season and the said ideas would only be rebuffed by a fool!

One such fresh idea entails challenging fear- filled, jittery African foreigners living in South Africa to go back to their home countries and challenge their own useless leaders to adhere to good governance, and remove them by whatever means if they fail to adhere to good governance.

Another fresh idea coming from Ma- Ngobese is that she will help ordinary South Africans to litigate against stupid South African government laws which have rendered South Africans nonentities in the country of their own birth.

Ma-Ngobese and her compatriots have realised that the tender-inspired regime of Ramaphosa and his predecessors Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki has always hid itself behind “the laws and Constitution of South Africa” to continue their onslaught on black and Colured South Africans for the benefit of foreigners.

Common sense suggests that if a law or Constitution of any given country oppresses the majority of its own citizens, then, for the sake of justice and peace in the land, such laws and Constitution must be thrown into the dustbin of history in much the same way the apartheid laws were discarded.

If President Ramaphosa insists that the ideas espoused by March and March don’t represent the wishes of the majority of South Africans, then he must call for a referendum.

And if any of Ramaphosa’s sycophants would suggest that a referendum would be costly, I would retort by saying if we could afford to lose R2 billion in terms of Tembisa Hospital tenders, why can’t we use the same amount of money for a good cause, which entails testing public opinion on illegal immigration policies?

Simple research shows that it will cost R2,6 billion to R3 billion to conduct a referendum.

Now if litigation does not succeed in forcing Ramaphosa and his friends to rescind oppressive immigration laws, will Ma- Ngobese and her compatriots continue to march, march and march some more?

Or will they finally realise that they must take part in the 2029 general elections and receive the mandate from South the African electorate to guide this country into a brighter future?

If March and March continues to ignore calls for it to become a political party that takes part in general elections, then it will soon resemble a person who has never been a professional boxer telling all and sundry that he can punch better than the two pugilists taking part in a boxing match.

It will soon resemble a person who tells all and sundry that she can sing better than the artist performing live on stage, yet refusing to get onto the stage herself to sing so that the audience can judge her accordingly.

It will resemble a person who would tell all and sundry that they can score goals and dribble better than the players who are taking part in a soccer match, yet refusing to go onto the pitch to display their talent.