Leaders must serve and protect the people!
Wednesday, 06 August 2014
The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Eastern Cape has noted the developments in the matter involving King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, the Abathembu Royal Council and the President of the Republic, Honourable Jacob Zuma.
The SACP has since learnt that the President did not initiate the dethroning of the Thembu King as many would like us to believe, but he was merely responding to a clarion call made by some within Abathembu Royal Council as guided by the legal framework governing traditional processes.
Any leader with no exception of the Kings should serve the people and protect them at any given time. That should be done with the understanding that there is no one who is above the law even those "born as leaders". None of us is born as subjects of anybody; therefore the dangers of regarding people as mere subjects is that you will treat them with gross disrespect and abuse them.
We have also noted with concern the insults hurled by King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo towards the person of the President. These rude and backward insults should not be viewed as undermining the persona of President but that of the people of South Africa, as he is the product of a democratic electoral process. If President Zuma is insulted for executing his constitutional mandate, that requires the people of South Africa including those of the Thembu nation to rise in defence of our constitution.