OPEN LETTER TO FORMER PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI

Dear Cde Mbeki
 
The events that came to pass in our country in the last week have left me very little
option, but to address you directly on the matters at hand.
 
I am certain that you are painfully aware that the release of the transcripts of the
conversations between Ngcuka and McCarthy, not only sent shockwaves through the
nation, [...]

Let’s talk about the tapes that got JZ off the hook

Brief background
Our airports have become the centre of criminal activities which amounts between 200 million 300 million a year this is just at OR Tambo airport alone. In 2001 Paul O’Sullivan was appointed as Group Executive – Aviation Security, Employed by Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) his role was to ensure such criminal activities as [...]

The Jacob Zuma saga continues

Firstly I have to applaud the ANC (African National Congress) for once they didn’t give names to Judges, as we all know what they’ve been saying in the past whenever a court ruled against them. This time around they gave the judges the respect that they deserve and ‘accepted’ the ruling; I wish I could [...]

ANC is its own worst enemy

As much as the ANC managed to pull a historic landmark, where a seating president was defeated, this is a very rare phenomenon any where in the world, because cadres tend to be very afraid of state presidents, due to obvious reasons a case in point is Zimbabwe. However instead of the ANC consolidating its [...]

When ANC wins elections, who’ll be the official opposition party?

A lot of focus has been thinking about how Shikota party (break-away party) will dent ANC’s election victory and less about who will be the official opposition party.
The way I see it, it’s either the ANC will get a significant win or will be dented by the break-away party. In the case where the ANC [...]

Former SA President, Thabo Mbeki’s letter to ANC – full document

Comrade President, I imagine that these must be specially trying times for you as president of our movement, the ANC, as they are for many of us as ordinary members of our beloved movement, which we have strived to serve loyally for many decades.
 

 
 
I say this to apologise that I impose an additional burden on [...]

Mbeki’s resignation speech (Full text)

I have no doubt that you are aware of the announcement made yesterday by the National Executive Committee of the ANC with regard to the position of the President of the Republic.
Accordingly, I would like to take this opportunity to inform the nation that today I handed a letter to the Speaker of the National [...]

Mbeki faces lame-duck term part 2 in pictures

 
Now that Zuma has been elected ANC President it is abvious that he “is our president in waiting” [Fikile Mbalula] (my favourite cause I’m a paparazzi & dependent on his loud mouth), if I were Thabo Mbeki I would call an early election therefore passing on the thrown to my (undesirable) successor.
Why: I don’t see Mbeki & Jacob [...]

Mbeki faces lame-duck term

Based on ANC election results last night, if I were Thabo Mbeki I would call an early election therefore passing on the thrown to my (undesirable) successor.
Why: I don’t see Mbeki & Jacob Zuma working together, one will have to remember  that Mbeki will have choice between doing what Zuma as ANC president tells him to do [...]

A blogger in Polokwane … an experiment gone wrong

As the heading suggest, if you like blow by blow accounts of the development in ANC (African National Congress) conference in Polokwane check out this blog it’s spot on.
Well done to Ndumiso Ngcobo (have a taste by reading more below)
…Walking around the Limpopo university campus this morning, I felt like I was back in the [...]