Viva Comrade Tutu

Note to the loyal readers: I am no longer writing about resignations. Bayanda has said a mouthful about that. Read his blog. It contains my views.
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Some of my comrades have reacted negatively to what Cde Tutu have said about not voting in next year's election if the ANC does not get its house in order.

I am a member of the ANC. I will be the first to admit that the ANC house is not in order. It has not been in order since before the 52nd National Conference in Polokwane 2007. If it was in order the current NEC would not be fixing things by recalling premeirs, recalling the President of the country, auditing Chancellor House and so on.

My suspicion is that the ANC house will remain out of order at least until the ANC list process is complete. I am basing this on the likely posibility of competition for positions during the list process upon which we might witness strange behaviour from some ANC members, even though they will be a minority.

Now Cde Tutu says he is not going to vote if the ANC house is not in order. This implies that Cde Tutu is a loyal ANC voter. He says he is saddened by his current observation, at his age I would be sad as well.

I can safely assure Cde Tutu that the ANC house will be in order by the time the country goes to the elections. The list process and the manifesto process would have long finished by then. If someone "ongabhadlanga" wants to start a political party they would have done by then. So definitely the ANC house will be in order. I have a lot of confidence in the ANC NEC and respective provincial, regional and branch structures.

I know some stubborn reader is thinking "but you have not addressed the issue of Zuma Presidency". Yeah I know what Cde Tutu said. For your convenience here is it. By the time we get to the next election Cde Tutu would have realised the difference between suspicion, allegation and guilt. He would be able to distinguinsh between a subjective view of an allegation and an objective view. He will know, by then, that there is no amount of allegation(s) that can grow to be guilt just because it is repeated 2634 times. He will know what innocence means. So the issue of the Zuma presidency is not an issue at all. I have confidence in the intelligence of Cde Tutu.

I kindly request members of the media to visit him just before elections to ask him if he will vote. If his statements were genuine and not about hypocrisy or seeking cheap media points, he will tell them that he is going to vote. His vote is no longer secret. Despite having many political parties he opts not to vote if he is not voting ANC. As he changes his mind, he will be voting ANC.

My comrades should have confidence in Cde Tutu. He is certainly not a hypocrite. He also knows what Charles Dempesey's abstinence cost us.

PS: Lazola I wrote about this before you did. How nice.