Reflections after the vote of no confidence on the President
It is moments like this when ones conviction is shaken to the core and options weighed to assess the balance of probabilities.
Even during this stormy season the call to soldier on for the benefit of all South Africans remains mightier and stronger than the heavy launches of these blows.
I have taken time to reflect on last week’s vote of no confidence against our President.
Tuesday, 8 August 2017 will go down in South African history as the day where the ANC’s moral pulse was all but extinguished. Going into the vote, it was doubtful whether much of a moral pulse existed at all. Coming out of the vote, the pulse was there thanks to the actions of 25-35 ANC MPs but that pulse is now weak and fading.
The Speaker of the National Assembly showed fortitude in agreeing to a secret vote and even those who abstained from the vote gave us a glimmer of hope to the moral conscience that does exist within ANC branches and thousands of rank and file ANC members. Despite party-focused instruction and barely veiled threats from their leaders these righteous members stood their ground. They stood true to their oaths as MPs, choosing to defend the rights of those who elected them to public office, instead of defending the immoral and indefensible.