Open Letter to Jacob Zuma

Dear former president,

Please allow me to wish you well as you go through this trying period of your life. I understand. This isn’t your first, maybe, even the last one to be behind bars if you won’t change your disrespect of the court of law. I know how it feels for the person who’s once an imperial president in the continent where presidents are but demigods. I know the pains and pangs you’re facing to live the life you’d already forgotten.

         I hope you heard how some organised criminals and paupers used you to wreak havoc to the country. So, too, I understand how you wanted to take them for a ride thinking that their criminality’s in sympathy with your disrespect of court of law, corruption and above all, bad governance that hugely contributed to penury and unemployment that forced them to do unthinkable to their country. Again, do you truly believe that the violent riots and looting the world evidenced are because of the love of you and will help you out of the quod?

      The other day little bird told me that it heard people saying that they’d love to see you being convicted of the crimes pertaining to corruption since they exacerbated their poverty and sufferings. Thus, you’d take what’s happening as a lesson that’ll help you shall the stars not align in the pending corruption cases you are facing. I hope you’ve been told about the carnage that ensued in your name. Over 200 innocent people lost their lives. I hope no member[s] of your family is a victim since they’re not paupers who depend on opportunistic attempts to just survive forget about living. Many businesses were vandalised, torched and infrastructure destroyed. As per preliminary researches, the economy of South Africa will take a hit at not less than 3% resulting in cute unemployment, bankruptcy, poor supply of goods and service, and above all, poverty.

            Dear former president, have you already spoken to current president at least to apologise for what transpired to the nation? Do you still think that being jailed for the contempt of court’s a politically motivated case at all? I know how it feels for the person who believes he’s above the law in the country whose constitution doesn’t stipulate so. I know how bitter you’re to be subjected to loneliness, especially being away from your wives. Who’s now protecting them against rapists who might take advantage of your absence? How’ll you feel to find that some of your friends have gone to bed with your wives the same way you did with the daughter of your friend?  I heard one of my friends that you desecrated a woman to end up being punished by a woman. Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail. This must be the biggest lesson to African big men who fail or ignore to read the signs of time timely and accurately.

If you’re to remember what happened to you, what’d do when it comes to those who helped you into the crises you are in? Would you jail or shun the Guptas, the criminals who enacted what’s now known as Zupta or just replicate the same? By the way, do you think that the chaos that ensued after being rewarded for your disrespect of the court of law will help you and the country? If you’re to talk to the criminals behind the criminality and madness we evidenced, without any gist of bitterness, what’d you tell or order them to do?

Dear president,

Let’s put some flesh on the bones. People need land as the capital for their livelihood. Who owns the land? According to the Land Report (2017), the Land audit revealed that whites own 26 663 144 ha or 72% of the total 37 031 283 ha farms and agricultural holdings by individual landowners who are just 9% of the population; followed by Coloured at 5 371 383 ha or 15%, Indians at 2 031 790 ha or 5%, Africans at 1 314 873 ha or 4%, other at 1 271 562 ha or 3%, and co-owners at 425 537 ha or 1%. Of all issues that are now dogging South Africa, land is number one.  To address this issue, the government needs to come up with the policies of harmonising land ownership by, at least, using quota system based on the composition of the population without forgetting the history of the country. African lost their land to whites when they colonised the country. To do justice, whites need to think about redressing the blacks in order to avoid the Zimbabwe calamity wherein land was seized and poorly redistributed to end up ruining the country.

Can you see how your failure in addressing land issues, among other thorny ones, though it isn’t your problem alone, is now biting harder? Can’t you see how hidden economic apartheid's coming to the fore dangerously and looming?

I know you’re going through much. Please, tell your successor and the entire deep state to address hidden economic apartheid and corruption if you want peace and prosperity for yourself and your country.

Please, don’t ignore the order of the court again. Have a good stay in the gaol.

Source: Sunday Monitor today.