With an eye on the polls, ANC fires salvo at ‘anti-transformation forces’

Blame yourselves corrupt ANC, load shedding, reverse apartheid, master thieves. Hope you fall hard, you have successfully allowed every institution that was functional 30 years ago to be destroyed. FALL ANC FALL

The usual ANC vague babble laced with silly words like insurgent, destabilising and other meaningless paranoid rhetoric. The only thing one can be sure of is that they love eating the South African cake.

Whether the opposition likes it or not, we are judged by the past. South Africa was not like this before. Where are the Homelands today? Every political party in SA is corrupt, the only difference is that they are spectators.

Rabbits from hat - what a sad indictment on the ANC whose politics and policy have been reduced to magicking another bluff and not principled participation in progressive leadership out of the disaster of ANC making. Shame on you ANC.

Corruption is not transformation. The path that the ANC has been on for 30 years is not sustainable - 27m grant recipients and millions unmercenary employed in the public sector as part of the ANC's vote buying (patronage) sysem.

The ANC has definitely reconstituted the economy for job growth and infrastructure development. With Eskom and Transnet and and and - all of the these institutions need the infrastructure to be developed where it was in say 1996 and,boy, it will take a lot of work to do that. The bigger problem will probably be to get rid of the incompetent cadres in the job agencies of the ANC - ie anything that governmunt has a mandate to manage.

Throughout Africa, people continue to vote for parties that continue to steal, rape and pillage any accessible resource within their grasp. Why?

Cry me a river, they only have themselves to blame and its sickening to see all those well fed individuals cutting a huge cake while out there are children and adults who dont even get one meal a day. The anc will get what they deserve and the sooner the better, the money spent on this event could have been donated to school feeding schemes.

'You can fool all people some of the time and some people all the time. But you can never fool all people all the time. ' - Abe Lincoln

The ANC is sounding ever more like PW Botha's NP, drawing the wagons closer in the laager and fearing the total onslaught from all sides. At least PW saw the threat as being from outside, for the ANC it appears the threats are from inside the country and from within its own ranks as the levels of corruption has created all these competing interests. Meanwhile, after initially being able to pay off the debt incurred by the apartheid government, the debt is again mounting while the economy continues being eroded by collapsing infrastructure and systems. Cry, the beloved country!

The most perfect image of the criminal and gluttonous ANC. The cake is South Africa - the fat cadres digging their knives into robbed, starved and abused South Africa.

The picture of the cake eating ceremony is ominously apt - how they killed the ANC - cutting it up, each with with his/her own knife, to stuff their faces…..

Nothing new or different from many other countries in the world where the public service is used as the secure voter base of or for the ruling political party. The million-dollar question should rather be how many of those countries are successful and how many are financial wrecks. We are plundering our reserves to sustain unsustainable governance and unsustainable policies placing SA at risk of becoming another failed state where toilet paper is more expensive than reserve bank issued banknotes.

Can’t think of a better picture. All the top ANC “leaders” trying to get a bigger slice of the “cake”

Cyril Ramaphosa refuses to state why he circumvents foreign exchange laws in his private business. Blade Nzimande, Paul Mashatile, Bheki Cele, all have fingers pointed at them for either missing money or exorbitant lifestyles that belie their parliamentary salaries. Gwede Mantashe almost single handedly commenced the destruction of Eskom and Fikile Mbalula as Secretary General, of the ANC publicly informs South Africa that the ANC tells lies in parliament to protect members of the ANC when trouble appears on their doorsteps. And we must vote this crowd back into power this year? Fat chance...

History is the best indicator of the future, and it isn't looking good.

Thanks, Marianne. Maybe the trough is getting smaller. Too many cadre mouths to stuff.

"Ramaphosa will underscore his administrations achievements." Seriously? Did you manage to write this sentence with a straight face? His administrations only achievements have been to accelerate the race to the failed state status that seems almost inevitable should we be subjected to another five years of ANC mis-rule!

"“We know that there are social and political forces that are working hard to undermine the gains of freedom made over the last three decades. They want to stop the march towards a united, nonracial, nonsexist, democratic and prosperous country that truly belongs to all." Very well said, indeed! What a perfect description of the current people in power in SA! The country was doing very well right up to the last quarter of the Mbeki era ( which ushered in the government capture by the thugs in power today ). Those "forces" have indeed achieved exactly what the statement concludes with!

The ANC rhetoric convinces me that the forthcoming election will be neither free nor fair. Look forward to violence, intimidation and inter-tribal warfare as South Africa continues its struggle to become a failed state.

Firing a salvo of blanks will not help the stall the fall of the comrades

A comment about opposition parties trying to perform a Coup de stat but the ANC has achieved that eventually all by themselves !!

It's a known fact that throughout Africa, Liberation movements are incapable of governing countries because they lack the capability to do so. They deploy individuals in positions of importance i.e. Ministerial posts, not because they are qualified to do so, but because they happen to be the flavor of the month and in doing so these individuals believe they are entitled to help themselves through entitlement and the ANC is no different.

Did you notice the credits for the photograph? A photographer from GCIS. Don't we, the taxpayers, pay for GCIS? So why was he attending a POLITICAL PARTY event? Just another middle finger to the SA public.

The ANC says its pivotal achievement since coming into office has been putting almost 25 million people onto social grants. During this time, the unemployment rate increased by almost 60%. That is an unspeakably poor track record. Vote them out - we deserve better.

Nominate a 'common enemy' to induce party cohesion and public voting loyalty. Oldest dodge in the playbook. Yawn.

It would be depressing if the ANC still remains in government after the elctions

The ANC is the ultimate gang of thieves and crooks. Everything they have touched has been corrupted and stolen dry. A police minister who has a criminal record for fraud states he will not allow the country to be led by criminals. As the election gets close expect more billion Rand housing schemes and billions for the "missing middle" to be announced. Plenty of taxpayers Rands available for this if the ANC crooks just kept their slimy hands out of the cookie jar for a few months. Ironic that the Police minister committed fraud and the Minister of higher education who, allegedly, siphoned off funds meant for needy students announces new funds for the very same students, many who have not even being paid last years grant. Vivi the ANC viva. They all have PhD's in how to steal.