WE ARE FUC**D, PERIOD!!!

Dear ANC

WE ARE FUC**D, PERIOD!!!

You see, this is one of those letters that one never envisions writing to you. I never really thought I would ever write this letter to you because to me you are more than just a political party. To me and many of my people you are father, a mother, a brother, a sister, a lover, husband and wife; and many more. To you and your endeavors, many of my people and yours who have given at least their time and most their lives for over a century, we still believe albeit with much skepticism of late.

You have come to flow in many a bloodstreams of your people. Your movement and ideals have become the very fiber of our existence. For a very long and short distant past you have become the only movement that we have looked up and have dedicated our voices to; and dared not look elsewhere for anything because you were and are (to some of us), all we ever needed.

Until recently (the past couple of years) I and many other South Africans have been debating whether to write this letter to you. You see,  this letter and many others that will come (like many others that has come before) serves as nothing more than a SIGNAL. THESE LETTERS SERVE AS A WARNING,  AS MUCH AS THEY BREAK OUR HEARTS TO WRITE THEM TO YOU. But we owe it to you to do so or else we would have failed you.

MY STORY GOES LIKE THIS:

I went to the police station today to certify my ID documents that are needed for the registration of my new company. (You see, I am an entrepreneur and have started a company of my own. This decision to start my own company is driven by many forces chief among being the fact that I know you have fought tooth and nail, and at times given up your people's lives to ensure A YOUNG, BLACK AND GIFTED man like myself can cease the day and advance the economic participation of me and my people (YOUR PEOPLE)). But what happened the police station today struck a cord and left me very SCARRRRRRREEEEEED. After the gentleman certified my copies and we exchanged great laughs and jokes indicative of our greatest CONSTITUTION, UBUNTU, I was left shivers of fear and despair, anger and self evaluation. An evaluation of self and my people and this great nation the creator bestowed on us.

This gentleman as I was about to leave, smilingly looked at me and said I must leave him with a pen as he has finished the ink in his signing my papers. My innocence at this statement was immediately stripped away as I now have come know what these statements are packed with. You see, an innocent me would have thought that I was being asked to donate a pen to the police station which I would have done without thinking twice. But the FUC**D ME knew that the day will come when I would have to 'compensate' our men and woman in uniform for certifying documents for me (a task that should be carried with honor because they know that their signatures ensure that we can do what we want to do to advance ourselves)

The experience I had today comes at no surprise to me because this has become a narrative that meanders in the corridors and passages of our South African society. We know stories of people that have to pay bribes to the nurses to dispense drugs that they (patients) need for survival of their lives. We always have to pay our civil servants to provide us with the basic services that our taxes afford us. (a double charge if you ask me). Patients are competing with drug lords to get medical drugs they need. Hospitals, police, and all honorable civil services are rife with corruption. THEY MOONLIGHT AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR PEOPLE AND YOUR PEOPLE. 

We have warned you by taking to the streets in service protest. These protests have even at times turned violent. This violence was not fueled by our hatred to you, our country and our people. They have become violent because this is the tactic you used at times to fight against apartheid. You picked up arms when you needed to and marched to war against injustice of our people. We have also taken arms because we are fighting AGAINST INJUSTICE OF OUR PEOPLE.  But this is still A WARNING. Like a battered wife, we are simply screaming to say stop abusing us. The day we say enough is enough, we will do one of two things, WE WILL LEAVE FOR THE OTHER PARTIES begging to adopt us. The other option that many of my people will do is that they will pick up arms and take to the streets in violence revolution. The last option, although I would not advocate for will turn up to be the only option that my people will find viable. You see, they do not see all these other options given to them and only regard you as the only body suited to govern them.The second they believe you don't have their best option at heart, without rehabilitation, they will want to govern themselves as yours is the only option they see. I HOPE FOR THE SAKE OF AVOIDING THE LATTER, YOU HAVE STARTED WITH YOUR ROBUST, SHARP AND QUICK REHABILITATION.

Like I said at the beginning of this letter, I never wanted to write it because a child should never tell his or her parents when they are falling through the cracks because our African culture warns us not to. But I am going to bite the bullet today and join many rebellious children our there THAT YOU NEED REHABILITATION OR ELSE WE ARE FUC**D, PERIOD.

In the last couple of years we have been witnessing abuse of power and state resources for the benifit of the few in society. We have been sitting on the sidelines and screaming at you to warn you. We have witnessed corruption be the order of the day within your corridors of SERVICE (NOT POWER). We have screamed so loud that some of us have retired from that scream. Some of our good men and women, have felt so powerless against fighting corruption withing your government administration that they have now joined the ranks of corruption. Good women and men have acculturated to this habit that rehabilitating them is going to require a major SIGNAL. (or lesson if you may)

To return your great men and women to the course that you have taken for the betterment of our society and people, you will have to send us A MAJOR SIGNAL and whisper to us CALM DOWN, I GOT THIS. This signal should send send shivers down our spines and nerves and remind us once again why we fell in-love with you. You need to remind us once again, why we had children with you, and why we married you, and why our fathers left our homes to fight with you, why our mothers were left to fend for us while daddy has gone to fight for our liberation. Remind us once more, we beg.

Remind us why even when we see the moral deterioration and utter disrespect from the civil servant we have  asked you to manage, we still scream your praise and hold your course, resolutions and ideals as the torch of our hope. REMIND US ONCE AGAIN, WE BEG. REMIND US WHY WE LOVE YOU.

The only way you can remind me and many of millions of my people why you are still fighting our course would be to recall PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA... Please recall him immediately.  What has transpired with Nkandla is simply not a slap in our faces (and we have had many of those), it is blow and a kick to our guts. It is kick to the very core of who we are as a people of South Africa.

We know that this is not a Jacob Zuma issue. We accept that corruption has polarized our government structures to the very bottom of civil service. We know that fighting a culture is a mammoth task and a battle that will take every ounce of your energy. We know how hard this journey is going to be and how much it is going to cost you, but we are here and are equipped to take up our arms and go into battle with you. But before we can go into battle with you and make sacrifices our fathers and mothers made, we will need you to show us why we should do so....

Re-calling Honorable Jacob Zuma from office would SIGNAL to us that you are ready to take up the journey of REHABILITATING our movement and restoring it back to it's core of SERVICE to her people. We will know that you still mean it when you BATHO PELE. We will be remindeded why your people spilled their blood for our FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY.

As we celebrate 20 YEARS of that young child, DEMOCRACY, help us remember that you fought hard for her birth and you will fight for her to the very end. Don't let her vision and ideals be compromised by what we are seeing daily of our people in public service. REMIND EVERYONE IN PUBLIC SERVICE THAT YOU WILL FIGHT FOR OUR PEOPLE WITHOUT DETERRENCE ESPECIALLY FROM RAMPANT CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT. 

REMIND US ONCE AGAIN, WE BEG, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IF YOU DON'T, WE ARE FUC**D...

Kind Regards,
Ngwana Wa Bo Lona...