How do you unlock a hijacked state? Because that is what SA is. The hijacking is endemically embedded in state structures.
The latest hijacking of urban buildings that has been brought to light by the horrific Marshalltown fire is just another chapter in the hijacking history of our country. It should be read with the Zondo reports and the mafia activities in many industrial sectors that have been extensively reported.
The Tshwane municipal strike has long since turned into a riot. Why is the government not acting forcefully to defuse the situation? Apart from the ANC benefiting politically from the DA’s dilemma, there is a control structure in place to whom continuous reports are made and whose orders are carried out.
Elements of local structures have comfortable access to provincial and national structures and pay little attention to what manifests at local level. It is just about keeping the hijacked state with its corruption bonuses in place. And the only message that has come from above is to rehire the fired.
The ANC government has an elite structure that benefits from the SA economy, either via cadre appointments or bonuses that result from hijacked structures. And the fact that no orange overalls have been handed out to senior government officials or politicians after the Zondo report is proof of how ingeniously the hijacking process is run.
Who is any wiser about who stole from Eskom? For this reason, the ANC government will do everything within its well-organised ability to win the 2024 election outright, as promised. Grants will continue to play an important electoral role. And the ANC will continue to proclaim at grassroots level that it is thanks to the party that minimum wages are adjusted so well. The ANC takes care of the voting masses.
Who will monitor the election process’ thousands of ballot boxes? Who will turn their back on the hijacking structure of the ANC? After this, who will dare to be a whistle-blower and expose electoral fraud?
An outright ANC majority in the 2024 elections would be the most important achievement of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s political career.
Joe Kleinhans
Annlin
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