If ANC does not get rid of Ntlemeza, Citizens must get rid of ANC
30 March 2016
The ANC is in very deep trouble. The more it has tried to put easily malleable and flawed characters into key positions, the more they are showing their unsuitability for the top jobs they were given.
Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza is one such person who continues to discredit himself as well as the ANC. Once again, he has attempted to mislead another court, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) this time. In a sworn affidavit submitted to the SCA, Ntlemeza stated that Booysen was party to the process to appoint his successor and that Booysen was also interviewed as a candidate. When this was debunked, he said that he had made “a bona fide error” in signing an incorrect draft affidavit which included the error, without reading it.
Last year, Judge Elias Matojane said in court that Maj-Gen Ntlemeza had lied repeatedly under oath, had misled the court and lacked integrity.
Once again he has revealed his total lack of integrity. Only Mr Zuma finds him an excellent choice, discredited as Ntlemeza is. No person ever deposes to an affidavit without going clause by clause through its content with a legal representative. Our view is that the man who was judged in court to be a liar is once again lying through his teeth. Not reading an affidavit is not a defence.
The whole of the ANC is suffering a loss of reputation because it is failing dismally to govern and to uphold the rule of law. Tony Leon in today's The Times, quotes Ruchir Sharma of saying that South Africa will not ‘belong to the winning company of a breakout nation’ to ‘leverage its position in the frontier markets’ because our country has ‘maximum government and minimum governance’. That is what the ANC is offering South Africa. Over and above that, it condones the appointment of discredited individuals to top positions. Institutions are collapsing under them.
The ANC government should have fired Ntlemeza the first time he lied ‘repeatedly’ to the Pretoria High Court. The fact that he has lied a second time, to the Supreme Court of Appeal this time, is an aggravation that should never be tolerated by anyone in South Africa. If the ANC does not fire him immediately it is clear that the party has lost its moral compass and is itself unfit to govern.
To get rid of people like Ntlemeza and Zuma, it will be necessary for citizens to get rid of the ANC.
Issued by Dennis Bloem, COPE Spokesperson, 30 March 2016
