Dear friends and fellow South Africans,
The media have been invited to a briefing in which the ANC Youth League will "unveil its plans to make the City of Cape Town and Western Cape ungovernable". This despite the fact that the Premier of the Western Cape and the Mayor of Cape Town have filed a criminal complaint against the ANC Youth League under the Intimidation Act, specifically for making such public threats.
This is, of course, not the first time that the ANC has threatened to make South Africa ungovernable. When these threats first emerged in the eighties, they proved to be anything but empty. Chaos descended on our country.
At that time, the ANC's campaign to make South Africa ungovernable sprang from the injustice of the apartheid system under which we lived. It was a reaction to inequality, inferior education for the black majority, disenfranchisement and countless indignities that were visited upon our people. The demands behind the ANC's threat were political liberation and democracy.
But behind the threat of the ANC Youth League today lies the demand that the DA give up leadership of the Western Cape. When this rallying call to vandalism and destruction of property was first sounded in 2010, sparked by the toilet saga, the Youth League made no bones about the fact that they wanted blanket ANC dominance across South Africa.
The question one must ask is whether the ANC of today has become an entirely different animal to the ANC of 1912, or even the ANC of the liberation struggle. Is this still Mandela's ANC? In the past, the ANC adopted extreme tactics for the sake of liberation. Today they adopt extreme tactics just to get their own way and stay king of the hill.