SHENGE, LETS TALK FRANKLY ABOUT YOUR LEGACY IN EDUCATION
Dear Comrade Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Oops I made a mistake! I forgot you are no longer my comrade as you left the African National Congress a long time ago and formed your own party, the Inkatha Freedom Party. But who can blame me for making such a mistake? Shenge you try so hard to associate yourself with our movement and its leaders such as Comrade Nelson Mandela and Comrade Oliver Tambo.
Shenge you are not the only one. The ANC's celebrated history makes many other politicians wish they were part of it. Ms Helen Zille's Democratic Alliance tries desperately to link itself to ANC leaders. Your factory fault Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, who left your party and formed the National Freedom Party after she failed spectacularly to challenge your autocratic leadership, also does the same.
KaMagwaza-Msibi's election campaign billboards have bank notes with Mandela's face. This has been done to make the electorate think that the NFP has links with Mandela. Sometimes we underestimate how lucky we are to be members of the ANC, a political party that has produced world class leaders that other parties only dream of.
Shenge let me stop bragging about my organisation before I annoy you. I know how quickly you become angry if people try to disassociate you from the ANC liberation struggle. I will not afford annoying you as I want us to engage frankly on the issue of how many schools your Bantustan government built versus those built by the ANC's democratically elected government.
Shenge, I have noted that since you began your election campaign trail last year, there is hardly a single public platform you get and fail to brag that your KwaZulu government built more schools than the ANC. That is not correct. It is worrying that even your IFP youth brigadier, Mkhulekwa Hlengwa and IFP Deputy President Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi now also sound like scratched records, bragging about something which is devoid from the truth.