Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday lambasted the ANC for itself being counter-revolutionary, saying the "former oppressed are emulating their erstwhile oppressors".
Writing in her weekly newsletter on the DA website, she said it was curiously gratifying to be labelled a "counter-revolutionary" - along with the Constitutional Court - by ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe last Friday.
"Being on the side of those who uphold the Constitution is exactly where the DA and I should be," she said.
The great irony was that it was Mantashe - along with ANC President Jacob Zuma, Cosatu Secretary-General Zwelinzima Vavi, and ANC Youth League President Julius Malema - who were the real counter-revolutionaries.
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"By consistently undermining our hard-won Constitution and the liberties it enshrines, it is Zuma and his allies who are taking us backwards.
"They want to return to an era in which a few politicians held all power and decided which rights the rest of us could exercise."
The revolutionary change that came to South Africa was a Constitution that guaranteed universal rights and committed the government to uphold and protect them, not to dispense them selectively, Zille said.
Zuma and Mantashe's ANC, just like the National Party under apartheid, wanted to control the media, the judiciary and every independent organ of state.
"The former oppressed are emulating their erstwhile oppressors and, when the 'revolutionary vanguard' mimics the regime it replaced, you know that the counter-revolution has begun. It is straight out of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'," she said.
The real counter-revolutionaries were also the "wabenzis" in the ANCYL who were more preoccupied with their own enrichment than serving the people.
"We got a clear idea of what they believe the 'revolution' to be about from the conspicuous consumption on display at the ANCYL conference last week."
The other real counter-revolutionaries were those in the ANC who unashamedly plundered the state's resources for personal gain.
The ANC was redefining the "revolution" to mean undermining the Constitution, conspicuous consumption and looting the people's money.
"Under these circumstances I am proud to be called a counter-revolutionary," Zille said. - Sapa
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