MKMVA responds to attacks on President Zuma and the Gupta family
8 February 2016
Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) would like to urge the South African society and its various formations and institutions to get on with the business of building and growing our endangered economy, rather than targeting individual businesses, maligning them and inciting racial and xenophobic violence. At this hour of great need, our country needs the unity of all its people, and the concerted effort of all its citizens to see us through these challenging times.
Recently we have been bombarded with lies, dishonesty and malicious propaganda peddled by some sections of the media and opposition political parties to twist the truth and present other enterprises, especially the Gupta family and its company, as the enemy of South Africans. However, the real enemies of our people, are those who are used by big business to scupper our efforts at radical economic transformation, meant to benefit of all the people in the society.
A simple deeper search into the malice of that irresponsible propaganda, is that those who peddle lies about the Gupta family and its supposedly dealings with the President of the ANC and the Republic, Cde Jacob Zuma, and the ANC itself, are most likely bidding the hand of the monopoly and business cartels in our country. They serve the purpose of perpetuating foreign monopoly capital strangle hold on our economy, and deny it the opportunity to grow.
The latest lie peddled to tarnish the name of the ANC and its President, is that the Gupta family twisted the hand of Glencore, to grab its coal company interests and cheat it of its business to supple coal to Eskom. The media know the truth, that the deal was ultimately done after Glencore had opted out of it on a number of occasions, because they thought they had a better deal elsewhere. This was until their better deal elsewhere failed and the Gupta family secured the Glencore interest.