Gangster mentality has hijacked ANC - De Lille
ID'S PATRICIA DE LILLE SLAMS ‘THE GANGSTER MENTALITY' OF SOME IN THE ANC
ID President Patricia de Lille says the ANC ‘is becoming a vehicle for a dangerous gangster mentality amongst leaders in our society, where they claim to speak for the poor, but are more interested in lining their own pockets with cash.'
The ID Leader's comments come after reports that ANCYL President Julius Malema, who Ms De Lille recently said could be ‘stealing from the poor through tax evasion', called for nationalisation of the country's mines allegedly as a response to a personal setback in business and to pressurise a foreign mining group to sell off its shares.
‘If these allegations are true this will come as no surprise to me. This gangster mentality has hijacked the ANC at the highest levels over at least the past decade and it is not new for leaders in the ANC to use their positions to protect or further their business interests,' Ms De Lille says.
She cited the Arms Deal, the Siphiwe Nyanda Transnet tender saga, where the Minister of Communications' own company received a R55 million tender and the recent electricity price increases, a significant proportion of which will flow directly into the ANC's coffers through its front company Chancellor House.
‘For his part, as I have said previously, Malema has got a constitutional right to be involved in economic activity, but the way he goes about his business is more characteristic of a gangster than a national youth leader,' says De Lille.
‘On top of my suspicions that he and his companies are not tax compliant, it now looks like his calls for nationalisation were not an effort to launch a sound public debate, but rather an attempt to fill his own pockets.
‘If these allegations are true then Malema is certainly not as stupid as I thought he was, although he is a lot more dangerous than I ever expected,' De Lille says.
De Lille says she was ‘also not surprised' that President Zuma came to Malema's defence in an interview with a Friday weekly paper.
‘The ID has repeatedly said that over the past 16 years the moral gap between the vision, values and ideals of the struggle against Apartheid and the behaviour of more and more ANC leaders has widened just as quickly as the massive inequalities in our society,' says De Lille.
Statement issued by the Independent Democrats, March 14 2010
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Patricia makes 100% sense. The pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. Patricia for president!
by R Mugaybee on March 14 2010, 20:22
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What does everybody expect?These are the very politicians the electorate of this country elected into power.The ANC does not have the people at heart ,but rather their own bank balances.This is what you can expect if you allow the "wolf and his cronies to . .more
by GJ on March 14 2010, 21:06
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The thugs have taken over our country. I have no confidence in this "Government". They only serve themselves and nobody else. The poor that still votes for them after the fiasco they have created in this country, have only themselves to blame for their . .more
by FOFF on March 14 2010, 21:31
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Zuma and integrity - oxymoron. Big Z is no leader. He is just a tight rope artist who was at the right place at the right time to fulfil the anti-Mbeki ideals. Now he fails everyone he is trying to please. That is the problem if you have no principles but . .more
by Fidel on March 15 2010, 11:45
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I don't really think so ... that sort of mentality was there as soon as Madiba stood down as State President, so it can rightly be considered as a fundamental attribute of that vile Party, rather than as a subsequent departure from the straight and narrow1
by Dr. Angelo Lambiris on March 15 2010, 12:07
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People get the leaders that they deserve.
The problem lies with us who have to keep the whole mess together for everyone's sake.
by Winnie Sepus on March 15 2010, 21:36
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So the ANC's "debate on nationalisation" was merely a ruse to trick the Chinese into enriching the crooked Julius Malema and some associates, including Irvin Khoza and Kgalema Motlanthe's son.
Who cares about the billions in foreign . .more
by Aghast on March 15 2010, 23:01
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More and more political misfits are joining the PGL.
And the poor masses just look on without any understanding o what is going on.
What a disgusting state of affairs. What dismal leaders.
The downtrodden masses who voted them . .more
by Bombela on March 16 2010, 08:16
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