I wish somebody can hear our cry! South Africa needs a leader. We need a leader that we as young people when we travel the length and breath of the world and we are asked about our president we are proud to mention his name without having to defend him because of his past scandals. We need a leader who is not going to force us to explain that he must be forgiven because he made mistakes and has asked people to forgive him. We wish we can have a leader who will not call other political players dead snakes. A leader who will not in his presence have people pronouncing that they will take arms for him and only reprimand those people five days after when people start condemning those remarks. We wish we can have a leader who will not dodge the law and try to prolong his case to allow him to march to the Union Buildings with dark clouds over his head. Oh! We ask for a leader who will not cry that there is a political conspiracy against him and never come up to show it; a leader who will instil confidence in us! A leader who will understand that our constitution is more important that a political party.
We need a leader who will enter any debate on policy without us fearing that he might say something embarrassing because of lack of understanding of the global economic and political conditions. We also deserve a leader who has spine, who does not go to people in business and say policies will remain the same and two hours later fly to rural communities and tell them that policies will change and favour them. We ask for a leader who will not create a police state, a leader who will not allow people to go back to the old enemy of people called tribalism. We are not interested in a 100% Pedi,
Afrikaner or Venda but a 100% South African! No leader should belong to an organisation that calls people dogs, cockroaches and dead snakes; an organisation that kill scorpions because they have 95% success rate. We wish we can have a leader who will realise that whether by luck or misfortune his desire to be a leader has been tainted by everything that has surrounded him and do the honourable thing; withdraw his candidacy. The leader we want is the one that says laws must bite for everyone including politicians and that no political solutions should ever be granted for an individual. We are very fortunate that finally Terror Lekota has emerged as a better leader who has stood the test of time. We now call upon Terror never to allow himself to fall into a category of leaders that we close our ears when they speak.
We need a leader who will enter any debate on policy without us fearing that he might say something embarrassing because of lack of understanding of the global economic and political conditions. We also deserve a leader who has spine, who does not go to people in business and say policies will remain the same and two hours later fly to rural communities and tell them that policies will change and favour them. We ask for a leader who will not create a police state, a leader who will not allow people to go back to the old enemy of people called tribalism. We are not interested in a 100% Pedi,
In defence of democracy
Loyiso Phantshwa and Paul Hjul
COPE Rhodes Interim Branch Structure.
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Keep it up guys, we have a country to save and our democracy to defend.
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