If Jacob Zuma becomes President and the ANC gets a two-thirds majority on April 22, the powerful will have free rein to engage in power abuse and corruption. That is why we must stop Zuma.
The other day someone said to me: "I don't care if Zuma is corrupt, he has done a lot for us." That is not true. Zuma has done nothing for the people. All he has done is spend R11 million of taxpayers' money getting his lawyers to keep him out of court so that he doesn't have to answer the very serious charges of fraud and corruption against him. That money should have been spent on delivering services like water and electricity to the people. Instead it was used to protect Zuma and further his own interests.
People must understand that when a politician is corrupt, he is stealing from them. Robert Mugabe got rich because he stole from his own people. Corrupt politicians make poor people poorer.
Take the Arms Deal for example. It cost over R40 billion. And what did the people of South Africa get for this huge sum of money? We got weapons that don't work to use against enemies we don't have.
That money should have been spent on delivering services like electricity to people who have to have cook on paraffin stoves and learn by candlelight. It should have been used to supply water to all those communities that run the risk of getting cholera because they don't have access to sanitation. It should have been spent on building houses for everyone that doesn't have a roof over their heads. It should have been used to provide anti-retrovirals to people living with HIV/Aids.
Instead the money was wasted on expensive equipment that we don't need. Why did this happen? Because some politicians in the ANC saw the Arms Deal as an opportunity to enrich themselves and their cronies through kickbacks.