I agree wholeheartedly with your editorial (Cape Times, January 20). Every loyal South African must echo the same sentiment. His being brought to Parliament must be universally opposed by every person with a moral fibre in his or her being.
Brian Molefe should be, must be and has to be stopped from entering Parliament via the back door to create the mischief he engineered at Eskom. It is in all our interests that the National Treasury is protected at all costs.
One of the main functions of Parliament is to hold and protect the national purse. Parliament cannot be complicit in the plundering of that purse to the detriment of the nation.
Bringing Molefe to Parliament has a sinister motive. The evidence for that is overwhelming. It will tatter whatever little remains of brand South Africa.
Those bent on capturing the state and fully emptying the nearly empty state coffers must be stopped in their tracks.
Like the Gauteng ANC, the Western Cape ANC should also stand up for what is right, proper and decent. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Whatever it is that the powers that be are doing in the name of the ANC is a hard and undeserved slap in the face of every ANC supporter.
Every church, mosque and temple should express moral outrage and condemn what is being contemplated by the president in the most vigorous manner possible.
The MJC must indicate where it stands on the Molefe issue. South Africa cannot be taken hostage by any family tied at the navel to the president. The great power that is behind the throne must be eviscerated if we are not to become another Zimbabwe.
Every single ANC supporter who begged during the local government elections to give the ANC a chance to redeem itself must recognise that the indulgence they have shown the party is being contemptuously and scornfully abused. The president is showing all of them the middle finger. He is as incorrigible as any dictator.
The man who featured so centrally in the state capture report of the Public Protector must be kept out of the peoples’ Parliament. It has already lost much of its stature and credibility. Molefe’s entry will be the final straw that will destroy its reputation and make South Africa a banana republic.
If the ANC in Parliament cannot stand up to the president, the ANC will have betrayed South Africa in the most telling manner.
No one, but no one worthy of being called a leader can make a case for Molefe coming to Parliament.
The infamy of such an act would tarnish South Africa for a century to come.