Justice Malala isn’t the kind to pull his punches, and the highly respected political commentator and columnist calls it like he sees it.

As you might have guessed from that headline above, he’s not particularly enamoured with the ANC, and Cyril Ramaphosa, ahead of election day on May 8.

We told you that the ANC doesn’t care one bit about you, as evident by their list of candidates for Parliament and the provincial legislatures, but we’ll leave it to Justice to twist the knife.

Here’s some of his TimesLIVE column:

The loneliest man in SA must be Cyril Ramaphosa. He is being laughed at. Many of those who spoke of his Ramaphoria and his ability to turn things around are abandoning him by the boat load. Nothing could have illustrated his loneliness, his confusion, his lack of control, like the picture taken of him stuck on a train that was in turn stuck, full of passengers, on the Mabopane-Pretoria line.

It seemed some sort of tragic metaphor for the country. We are stuck, our politics are stuck and our leader is stuck. Woe is us.

We break briefly to give those who missed the train fiasco the chance to catch up. Seriously, if it wasn’t negatively affecting the lives of millions of South Africans, it would be laughable.

Back to Justice, who is pictured below:

The criticisms of Ramaphosa (the most telling one was a meme of him saying he is shocked by virtually everything – the state of Eskom, the trains, the economy, state capture, VBS and so much else) have heightened. In the meantime, the administration and organisation he leads are in all-out war.

The Zuma faction led by ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, cowed for a year, are now emboldened and are haranguing the doubt-filled Ramaphosa foot soldiers at every turn.

What is the ANC all about? What do they stand for? Well, you know:

The ANC is Ace Magashule. It is Bathabile Dlamini and Malusi Gigaba. It is Nomvula Mokonyane. It is Qedani Mahlangu. It is the Guptas and Bosasa and load-shedding and a crumbling infrastructure. It is the city of Makhanda, where they have changed the name but cannot provide clean water to the people because they have stolen ratepayers’ money. And they won’t go to jail.

As Pravin Gordhan pointed out this past week, Eskom is in a shambles because money for maintenance was stolen. Yet neither he nor anyone in government stood up and challenged Jacob Zuma while the institutions that could bring thieves to book were destroyed…

For those voters who will go for the ANC on May 8, this is what they have to contend with. Giving their vote to the ANC’s history means giving their vote to the same people who broke their country. Giving that vote to Ramaphosa means they may be arming those who will, immediately after the May 8 election, be ratcheting up their campaign to get rid of the very same Ramaphosa for whom the electorate will have voted.

How many chances does one party deserve?

We all wanted to buy into Ramaphoria, and that day Zuma was kicked to the curb will live long in the memory, but this new dawn looks a lot like the old dawn.

If only those who tick that ANC ballot paper box over and over would take notice.

[source:timeslive]