In Sunday’s Sunday Times Mondli Makhanya (News & Opinion, p18) writes under the title “Don’t squander this new start on yesterday’s crooked rogues”. He discusses the supposed ‘moral dilemma’ of Tony Yengeni’s election on the National Working Committee of the ANC.
He specifically refers to Kgalema Motlante who indicated that “the ANC will only intervene when your own conscience fails to guide you”. I would presume that this means that the ANC will intervene when your conscience fails to guide you to do the honorable thing – whatever that ‘thing’ may be.
I suppose that the ‘new start’ Mondli refers to should be interpreted as an acknowledgment that there was no moral standard under the Mbeki regime. No one can find any fault with this conclusion. Morality and the Rule of Law has never been on the Mbeki agenda. How could we have expected it whilst most of the ministers and officials came into office with a criminal record?!
On what basis Mondli can however hope for a new beginning after Mbeki, boggles the mind. Mr Jacob Zuma has been elected as ANC president and National president to be. Where is the guidance of conscience Molanthe refers to? When the ANC choose Yengeni for the Working Committee, where was the moral guidance? In the investigation into the arms deal I find no moral standard. In the furor following the news that Selebi will be prosecuted, where is the respect for the Rule of Law as a basis for any moral standard?
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