Just How Do ANC Leaders Sleep at Night?

Jabu Rakwena AZAPO national spokesperson

By Jabu Rakwena
AZAPO National Spokesperson

Over the weekend the ANC held its lekgotla gathering.

The party is in a government which is faced with challenges of severe magnitude.

Under such circumstances, what should preoccupy the party at the moment should be how to steer the country on a path of growing the economy, reducing unemployment, helping to reduce overcrowding in black schools, equipping schools and hospitals with personnel and necessary tools to better serve our people, fighting the high crime rate, ensuring coherence within the security cluster, dealing with undocumented foreign nationals, improving food security and reducing the high costs of living…and… and….and.

But no, the party in government is instead navel gazing…worried about how to save the ANC and ensure her leaders continue to enjoy the comfort and luxury of office.

The focus of the meeting was how to preserve the party and ensure its continuity.

It escaped those at the meeting that their survival is dependent on the very same people whose plight and interests they are ignoring.

Their incumbency in state office can only happen on the efforts of those very same hoi polloi who trudge under the burden of high unemployment, poverty, wanton crime and…and…and.

Just how do ANC leaders sleep at night?

My grandfather once cautioned me that if I want to sleep like a baby then I must pay my debts.

Now with so many “debts” weighing heavily on the ANC, one may again ask: just how do ANC leaders sleep at night?

The time has come for our people to reclaim their power.

There is too much power in the hands of the leaders in government to arrogantly assume that no matter what they will be returned to power.

We must have a game-changer and pull the rug under their feet.

The answer is not to boycott elections but to come out in full force and vote for change.

This is now time for the proverbial new broom in the form of an organisation with compassion and a track record of love and care for our people to step up and take the baton to run the government.