Article: Focus on the real issues: ANC

Members of Parliament should set aside their differences and focus on issues raised in the state-of-the-nation speech by President Jacob Zuma, the African National Congress said on Tuesday.

"We make a special plea to all Members of Parliament across political divide to focus on the real issues raised in the state-of-the-nation address," the party said in a statement.
 
"Whatever our differences are, we must keep the interest of our country above everything we do."
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So when do you announce the names of all those in the ANC who do nothing but protect their own interests and who will be removed from their posts immediately - starting with 'president' J Zuma.
 
How some people can say that we must focus on more pressing matters is beyond me. Can't they see that by not addressing this you cannot progress as a nation? $#@:cry::wtf::mad:$@#!!!@

Do they condone such behaviour or do the not care or are they really just so thick?
 
Parliament was a platform where different political parties could change citizens' lives through legislation to ensure accountability, the ANC said.
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Is cANCer actually saying that accountability should be selective? Since shower-head is not held accountable for anything...
 
HavocXphere said:
Here is a rather direct analysis of the real issue

http://www.financialmail.co.za/coverstory/2015/02/12/state-of-the-nation-in-zumas-iron-grip
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It's a frecking disgrace and very revealing to say the least! I wonder what the MyBB ANC fanatics will spin about these truths but I am sure they will rather ignore this accurate summation.

This quoted extract is only a small portion of the damning article.

JACOB Zuma’s presidency has taken on a particular flavour. Exposés of capricious political interference in important arms of the state such as the prosecuting authority, the police and the intelligence services have become commonplace: there is little shock factor left in the abuses of power and process committed by his friends in his name; and there is no parallel with any other SA president in the extent to which he has personally benefited from holding office.

Less often publicly aired is his devastating impact on the ANC. Under Zuma’s leadership the ANC president has become untouchable, insulated by a national executive committee (NEC) of men and women held in place by networks of patronage nobody dares undo. The senior leadership collective — a key feature of ANC organisational practice since the 1950s — has been relegated to the sidelines. Despite a succession of damaging scandals, Zuma therefore can’t be called to account.

The ANC shields him from public and parliamentary accountability in the belief that it is protecting the organisation it perceives to be under attack from a hostile media and an official opposition against its transformative programme. The ANC declined to be interviewed for this report.

But the bigger and more profound problem is that the ANC leadership collective has lost control of its president.

Over six years in power, Zuma has placed an array of acolytes in key positions, ranging from the cabinet and state-owned enterprises to the police and the national broadcaster, the SABC. Key individuals with a close relationship to Zuma are deployed as ministerial advisers in government departments. Their distinguishing feature is that they owe their loyalty to Zuma alone and use it to override government decisions and bypass the ANC.

Among outside observers — political analysts, investors who watch from afar, the business community and a growing number of citizens — the question on the lips of many is how long can the Zuma disaster go on?

It is these two mutually reinforcing trends — Zuma’s destructive hold on government and an immobilised ANC collective — and how the two unfold which holds the answer to how much longer he can survive.

How did we arrive at this point?

Zuma’s hold over government and state institutions is effected mostly through the appointment process. He uses his powers of appointment more cynically than his predecessors did, is less concerned by public criticism of his choices and is shameless about promoting his own agenda. He has extended his authority to make appointments beyond those allowed for in law.

The appointments of the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), the commissioner of police, the heads of the intelligence services and directors-general of national departments are presidential decisions. The SABC board and chairman he appoints on the basis of "parliamentary advice".

Yet he has been notably active in picking individuals for the SABC and for boards of state-owned enterprises, which are under the authority of the minister of public enterprises, to be confirmed by cabinet. In the case of the SABC, he made sure the ANC committee on communications included Ellen Tshabalala on its candidates list. In the case of SA Airways he "advised" public enterprises minister Lynne Brown to retain Dudu Myeni; and at Eskom, he lobbied for Ben Ngubane to be named chairman.

The SA Revenue Service (Sars) is another example of this mode of operating. Previously, the minister of finance managed the appointment of the Sars commissioner, as set out in legislation. This time Zuma took an active role and the final announcement was made by cabinet and not the minister. Though three Sars insiders had been tipped for the job, the successful candidate, Tom Moyane, was a surprise to everyone. Moyane is a fellow ANC exile who, like Zuma, spent a good deal of time in Mozambique during the struggle against apartheid. He has little tax or finance experience and appears to have been biding his time until retirement at the state information & technology agency.

Zuma’s ministers have been complicit in expanding his powers of appointment by increasingly seeking his private approval before proposing new appointments at cabinet meetings. And the ANC has played its part. By establishing a convention that ANC subcommittees and its deployment committee have the right to a say over state hiring, all appointments have become subject to horse-trading.
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"Whatever our differences are, we must keep the interest of our country above everything we do."
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Strange that the NP had a better track record of doing exactly that than the so-called liberators.
 
Zuma is an issue and he rose to deliver his speech so by that logic Zuma was an issue that was raised. So got it, we will focus on him.
 
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